Yes, if any one would like to submit screenshots of the latest aircraft, or scenery, or environmental effects or rendering features, please do and I can begin assembling a new set of images. However, so far no one has submitted any new images to me so I haven't had to worry about it. :-)
Curt. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Durk has suggested that I repeat some of my screenshot tips, > as we need stunning new screenshots for the flightgear.org > website. (What I write isn't binding, as I don't do this in > any official function.) > > (1) contents: Obviously, screenshots should focus on new > features/scenery/aircraft. Those should be generally > available, ideally from our repository, but at least > freely downloadable on the net under GPL compatible > license terms. Please no aircraft etc. that are proprietary > or unreleased. > > (2) quality: > - use highest feasible filter settings (antialiasing, etc) > - hide frame rater counter, menu, dialogs (unless they > are part of what you want to demonstrate) > - use realistic scenarios: no 747 approach to the Nimitz etc. > - avoid the display of fgfs shortcomings: no rain in cockpits, > no cloud artifacts, no floating aircraft, no transparency > problems. (Yes, that's cheating. But people know that any > software (apart from TeX :-) has bugs, and demonstrating > bugs is not the purpose of our screenshots.) > - please understand that, in case there are *many* submissions, > Curt has to choose the better ones. (Unfortunately, that's > not usually one of our main problems. ;-) > > (3) legal matters: though there's no official decision yet about > which license the screenshots should be under, the outcome > of a recent discussion implies that the rules set out under > http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Submitting_Screenshots > should be valid. (A review by the FSFE -- the Free Software > Foundation Europe is still pending.) > > No exceptions, please! Distribute your screenshots *yourself* > under whichever license you want, but accept that FlightGear > distributes them under these terms. Otherwise don't submit > any. (Unless Curt decides otherwise, of course.) > > (4) tools: Some older systems don't run well with high-quality > filter settings. People with such systems can use the attached > script to work around that: > > - save it to ~/.fgfs/Nasal/ (create this dir if necessary) > - create a directory ~/.fgfs/Export/ > - run fgfs "normally", find good motive, pause, press Ctrl-q > to save an XML snapshot of the situation > - re-run flightgear with that situation and with antialiasing > etc. turned on: > > $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo ~/.fgfs/Export/snapshot-KSFO-bo105-1.xml > > - find perfect sun angle, weather, perspective, then make > the screenshot with F3 > > m. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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