Benoit Laniel has developed a patch to fgdata and simgear that allows to add photo scenery images to flightgear very easily (http://blaniel.free.fr/pub/flightgear/brest/). It was first used for the second version of the Brest scenery. Unfortunately contacting Benoit failed several times and people I asked have not heard of him for a long time, hopefully he is fine.
This is a request for help to see if his patch could be put into flightgear. I do not understand enough of flightgear to be able to push this forward myself. My only involvement in all this are some scenery images I made that use his patch (http://fgphotoscenery.square7.ch, http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15174). On my machine at least, also some modification of terrain-default.eff is necessary, because when using Benoit's patch as he made it, the standard texture is covering the photo texture except for very small regions like streets and just around airports. This is due to the fact that terrain-default.eff has evolved since Benoit made that patch of course. Because I don't know enough about the shaders, I only could make a very violent modification to terrain-default.eff that would allow me to see the photo texture on top. This modification does break a lot of the shading as Vivian and Frederic immediately pointed out. The request for help therefore also includes to have a look at what needs to be modified in terrain-default.eff in order to show the photo texture without breaking all the rest. Benoit's patches for the current master branches (including my change to terrain-default.eff) can be found here: http://fgphotoscenery.square7.ch/photo_2.7.0.patch.zip. Would anybody be willing to take this up? The photo scenery enthusiasts definitely would be extremely grateful. Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
