Melchior FRANZ wrote: > <name>ShrubCover</name> > <name>ShrubGrassCover</name> > <texture>Terrain/shrub.rgb</texture> > <texture>Terrain/shrub2.rgb</texture> > <texture>Terrain/shrub3.rgb</texture> > > we are mapping two types to three different textures. Wouldn't it make > more sense to map "ShrubCover" and "ShrubGrassCover" to different > textures?
Pointing at this particular fact was my intention when I mentioned that not every layer has its unique texture :-) In the case you cite here the effect does not matter because there is no 'ShrubGrassCover' layer - this is sort of a blind entry. I know that at least two textures are being reused by two or more material names/layers each as I had a look at this while preparing the Mapserver. I found it pretty cumbersome to dig through the stuff as I'm no XML parser so I decided to get out of that. The document stored here: ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/GIS/GISData/NIMA/VMAP0_spec.pdf starting at about page 150 lists different area features and information on how to identify these ('f_code', 'veg', 'smc', 'swc' and so on). Somebody with lots of spare time could have a look at this and try to identify landcover/material types that are already prepared in 'TerraGear/src/Lib/Polygon/names.hxx' and in 'data/materials.xml'. Most of this is already put into browsable form on this page: http://www.de.terragear.org/docs/vmap0/coverage.html There's another thing: When picking colours to identify the different layers for my Mapserver I averaged the color values over the texture tiles and realized that the color values of many textures resemble each other - see the Legend to the Mapserver map display after selecting all landcover layers. Regards, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
