Hi Pete, Currently, TerraGear is mostly being redeveloped in order to handle more detailed scenery - recent advances in "FlightGear scenery data technology" have made this necessary. I think this is a lot of GIS C++ work - I am primarily a data contributor. So please note anything you do should be compatible with this roadmap - other than that, I think there's just a TerraGear wish list, but those actually programming can correct me if I'm wrong.
I would say feel free to work on uv-mapping and brainstorm on the idea of "transition polygons". However, I am working on some quite detailed scenery at the moment and can say when scenery data is at about 30m precision "transition polygons" become difficult to manage. The problem with vector-only data is it doesn't allow for the "fuzzy pixels" you see in remotely sensed imagery, which allow - somewhat - for realistic transitions - everything is hard-edged. Some sort of automated seam blending would be really cool, but I think this is hard to do... As far as updating apt.dat goes, we've done a "fork" of 8.10 and have quite a number of updated airports sitting on the mapserver somewhere. Curved taxiways would be brilliant but because of both distribution and performance limitations the problem is inserting "curved" polygons as cheaply as possible when it comes to polygon counts. A somewhat dated but interesting primer can be found here: http://custom-scenery.org/Research-Deve.274.0.html (make sure to click on the sub-links on the left). Have fun and welcome Cheers John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
