* gerard robin -- Wednesday 21 November 2007: > I only wonder about => SGI textures (*.rgb) shall be "aggressively" > since i remember getting trouble with that format.... > Thought i have not tested it recently, [...]
There was a problem with compressed splash textures, but that was a bug in fgfs that is meanwhile fixed. If there turn out to be other problems, just report that, and we'll fix the broken code. GIMP doesn't tell the whole truth. It wants to make us believe that this compression is "aggressive" and doesn't work on SGI machines. Both is nonsense. This is the *regular* compression as defined in SGI's own image specification. If anything, then it's GIMP's packer which is broken. If so, then just use a different one. KDE has a better packer, anyway. :-} > Global settings , may open a question => > i use the "brake-parking" ON which is to me necessary with with some > models, > for instance: That's a grey area. For me it *is* a property "directly related to the aircraft simulation", therefore I don't see anything wrong with setting it in an aircraft file. Actually, I prefer to have the parking brake applied, and have that in my local setup (which is why I wouldn't even notice :-). Generally, I agree with the suggestion that it should be configurable, whether an aircraft should at startup be parked with engines off and all, *or* ready for takeoff on the runway/helipad/seaport. But this needs some work. The new apt.dat.gz (which Martin has committed recently) does actually contain possible startup locations. I was about to make that available, but the information is a bit hard to digest, as different types aren't encoded with a number, but with apparently non-standardized "free" text. (Also, all aircraft should support startup in air, and I must admit that this doesn't even work for the bo105.) m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
