Hi Hannes "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> what "world" are you using in flightgear? i still think it would make > sense if http://csp.sourceforge.net/ and fg share the same world. :) FlightGear uses a toolchain called "TerraGear" to create a compressed Scenery format (we call it .btg) out of raster elevation and landuse vector data [1]. With no exception the current terrain surface consists of an irregular triangle mesh: http://www.de.flightgear.org/Gallery-v0.7.9/Link/wireframe.html Recent development in FlightGear/OSG maybe will lead us to the ability of loading every scenery-like format that is supported by OSG. Probably Tim likes to comment on this because he's the one who's mostly carrying out this work. I acknowledge that it might make much sense to share one "world" among CSP and FlightGear. Yet I have no idea how CSP terrain is organized and if they would like to share development resources with FlightGear. To my (past) knowledge of CSP this project explicitly aims at a goal and at an audience which are meant to be intentionally different from those of FlightGear. [1]: The 'official' web page of this TerraGear toolchain is here: http://www.terragear.org/ .... but in fact almost no development is taking place there any more. You'll find the most actively maintained set of TerraGear tools here: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/git/gitweb.pl?p=terragear Actually we've just started the process of reconsidering the design of these tools and we certainly will think about improving the current Scenery format. BUT you have to consider that FlightGear Scenery is a pretty big tanker. We're talking about approx. 20 GByte of uncompressed Scenery at pretty low resolution landuse and road data for the whole world now. Future development should take into account that the World Scenery might become magnitudes bigger once we start using higly detailed raw data all over the place. So pretty much care should be taken when considering the migration to a new format. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
