Hi Tim, Tim Moore wrote:
> I haven't looked at NYC in a while, but our urban areas tend to get > clobbered, particularly when the scenery guys strut their stuff for a new > release. The vast majority of the changes I've recently pushed to the Base Backage CVS had either been moving/sorting files between directories or updating files in order to reflect the past ambient colour change. Very few 'new' files have been added, mostly lightweight stuff and, as far as I remember, none of these affect the NYC area. BTW, even the forementioned 'new' stuff has been around on the usual download locations either at "http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/"; or via TerraSync (the NYC Scenery hasn't been part of the Base Package anyway). Therefore I'm unable to identify a reasonable cause why recent changes from the Scenery department should be having a noticeable impact in terms of runtime performance, you might have to go finding another culprit :-) > The ideal would be to coalesce all the buildings in a city block into one > model with one texture. We're doing our best to prevent this .... Actually one could think of adding a preprocessing stage between the 'raw' ressources (Terrain and AC3D models) and the FlightGear runtime environment by collapsing 1x1 degree or smaller area tiles into a single Scenery file of a format to be choosen, but as long as Sim-/FlightGear doesn't provide the infrastructure to deal with this flavour of Scenery (including all the animation stuff and the like), I don't see us getting there too soon. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
