Ok, this is for those that would rather see a screen shot than the
real thing. :-)
Here's a 60 second, 12Mb movie to watch:
http://www.flightgear.org/tmp/fgfs-movie1.avi
Director's notes:
- The scene is the YF-23 flying between 64S and KSEA.
- The movie is .avi format and plays very nicely with xine on linux.
I imagine windows people should not have any trouble either.
- The movie is taken with a Canon A70 digital camera, hand held,
pointed at my monitor ... pretty low tech ... no fancy coding or
image capture tonight.
- This instance of FlightGear is running live on a 900Mhz Athlon,
256Mb system RAM, nVidia Ti4200 graphics card.
- The movie quality is so-so, but not bad for a web movie. (My main
complaint is that the lighting turned out a bit dark in the
foreground ...)
This movie shows the new SRTM based terrain and if you look closely
you can see the vmap rivers and roads. And if you look really closely
you might be able to see a YF23 carefully hidden somewhere in the
picture. :-)
The thing to watch closely for is the very high detail of the terrain
and that there isn't any LOD popping. The terrain is fully polygonal
and not faked with any tricks so it looks correct as you move and fly
past it ... but of course you all know that. :-)
I can probably make more of these if there is interest, but for now it
is way past my bed time. :-)
Curt.
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Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project
Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org
Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org
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