On Saturday 19 July 2003 00:41, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > 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
Sorry - me being flippant. I blame it on the booze - I don't get enough of it so I'm out of practice when I finally do get out for a drink:) LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
