On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Renk Thorsten wrote: >> Using the default random building density, the tiles that are loaded >> initially when sitting on the runway generates ~ 340k random >> buildings. > > We might be generating too many buildings then? > > The greater Los Angeles area has between 13 and 16 million inhabitants > (dependent on what you count). > > Assuming you haven't changed the visibility range from the startup default of > ~16 km yet, checking with satellite images you should get about 1/12 of the > greater LA urban area at startup, that means you generate 340k * 12 = 4 M > houses in the greater LA area. The average number of people per household in > the LA area was about 2.9 in 2006, so we have just populated Greater LA with > ~12 million inhabitants - seems okay.
It was using METAR so I don't recall the actual visibility. The 340k number is the total number of buildings generated after sitting on the runway for 5 minutes. I don't know how many tiles are initially loaded, and therefore how much scenery is generated. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
