Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > The intent is to have another application (which doesn't exist right now) to > scale and orientate the airport properly, output a AC3D file, then match each > vertex in the model to the ground elevation. Then, it should be a simple > matter of placing the airport on top of the terrain. The taxiways may > present Z-buffer problems however, so we need to think this through.
Oh! So the entire airport -- including its runways and taxiways -- would be one huge 3D model? One thing that would be cool about this is the ability to handle truly curved taxiways (e.g. the roughly circular taxiway around the GA parking at KPAO in the default area -- see http://static.flickr.com/14/19525472_cf4cbbd786_m.jpg ), which is a big limitation of the apt.dat format. OTOH, it might make doing small tweaks (e.g. changing a taxiway from asphalt to concrete) challenging for a contributor -- having to load in the whole model (assuming I'm following you correctly). -c ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
