Martin Spott wrote: > Durk Talsma wrote: > >> Ralf Gerlich and Martin Spott: Complete scenery rebuild based on improved >> terragear algorithms / object database updates > > In the current state, after setting a deadline, we should be able to > get an entire Scenery release out from the current datasets within just > a few days _plus_ maybe a week of testing in a small circle of people > .... most of the people we asked didn't respond anyway ;-) > > There's one real show stopper - not to the FlightGear release but, > instead, to the Scenery releases, which on the other hand is related to > the way FlightGear reads airport data: > As mentioned before, the Scenery releases are currently tied to the > Base Package because several positions are read from the 'apt.dat', the > 'rwyuse.xml' and the 'parking.xml' which is stored in the Base Package.
There's another issue. The apt.dat contains more and more heliport definitions. The current genapts tools crashes on these or generates hillarious runways, which obviously are too short for proper normal runway markings. I would have loved to fix that and have genapts generate a proper heliport texture, but that would make the scenery incompatible with the released datapackage. So we might want to include a proper heliport texture (apt.dat knows asphalt, concrete, turf and dirt helipads) in the base package and regenerate the scenery with proper helipads. In the build currently being prepared for release Martin replaced the helipad records by simple taxiway records in order avoid the genapts-trap. He also tried to add a helipad object a few cm above the elevation of the center of the helipad. The additional elevation was necessary to avoid the helipad sinking into the ground. However, either the helicopter now stands above the ground or penetrates the helipad, with hilarious graphical results. Cheers, Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
