> -----Original Message----- > From: Melchior FRANZ > > * Jim Wilson -- Wednesday 23 March 2005 21:10: > > > From: Melchior > > > All you need to remember is that there are four groups (diffuse|ambient| > > > emission|specular), each with optional members > > > (red|green|blue|factor|offset) > > > or their respective *-prop variants. No need to mess with classes, > > > classtypes, > > > colortypes and the like. > > > > That looks good. How about just "property" in place of "factor-prop"... or > > am > > I missing something? > > Well, "factor" says what it does. "property" doesn't. And I do still want to > keep > fixed factors, hence "factor" and "factor-prop". It's a matter of consistency. > I would have to explain in the documentation why it's > (red|green|blue|offset)[-prop], > but just "factor" (fixed factor) and "property" (variable factor). And, > frankly, > I couldn't explain it. There's no apparent reason. What makes a multiplicator > so > special that it has to be treated different from an offset? (Consistency with > other > animations is certainly desirable, but not if it seems unnatural.) >
Ah...Ok. I'm seeing this as the single variable driving an animation...which is pretty much what all the other "aimations" do. I wasn't thinking about your wiz bang cameleon helicopter dialog :-) Sorry...a little slow today. Best regards, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
