On Saturday, October 06, 2012 23:34:13 Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just added a trivial enhancement to the rendering options dialog > to allow in-sim selection of the materials.xml file. This is limited > to those available in the base package (regions, default, dds). > > I've used the phrases "Global" and "Region-specific" to describe the > default/materials.xml and regions/materials.xml options, neither of > which is particularly satisfactory. I'm also really struggling to > think of an appropriate name for the dds/materials.xml variant. > > Has anyone got any suggestions that would help an end-user who has no > really knowledge of the underlying materials.xml file, or what DDS is? > > Thanks, > > -Stuart >
While I have no idea how to name the dds selection, I have some some suggestions about the box. First I think the name is missleading, since the changes that come with a different materials file are not limited to just different textures. Maybe "materials set" or "material definitions" would be better? Second, could we devise a way to make localy customized materials appear among the options automagically? I know that simply listing the files under Materials/*/ is not going to work, since some of them are not complete definitions, so maybe a new tag in the materials file that marks it as a viable option, or some sort of naming scheme for the file (new folder under Materials/ with only the materials.xml in that folder being a viable option for the chooser?) Or something combined between these, a materials.xml and a <display/> tag, that would contain the name to be shown in the selection box. ( then we could have something like this: Materials/myset/myurbanmat.xml Materials/myset/materials.xml with Materials/myset/materials.xml containing <display>My Custom Set<display/> that would show up in the box as "My Custom Set" ) Regards, Emilian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
