Lee Elliott wrote:
> On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote:
> > Martin Spott wrote:
> > > Kris Feldmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to
> > > > duplicate the maneuver in MSFS. Their tower has solid sides with
> > > > transparency in the bitmap and thus one cannot fly under it  :(
> > >
> > > Obviously it depends on how the tower is constructed for FlightGear.
For
> > > example you can fly through the Sutro tower very well (both releases).
> > Dunno
> > > what makes this possible,
> >
> > It's because the horizontal surfaces are very thin.
> >
> > -Fred
>
> _All_ surfaces are very thin:)
>
> (geometry joke)

Yes, you're right. I meant that their area projected onto an horizontal
plane
along the vertical is very small, so the HOT algorithm is not finding them.

Am I precise enough ? ;-)

-Fred



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