Wow! Amazing! You made it definitely worth getting up early today! I'll give it a try. Where exactly is this in the code please? I think that you said originally that you were doing it in perl? Is that still the case?
I'm wondering if FG could be started with a parameter --destination airport=KJFK that would put up a billboarding rectangle [ TO <destination-airport] in the approximate direction. Do you think that this would be a reasonable or useful thing to have? Once of course the user is close enough for the real sign to kick in, the --destination-airport sign would be dropped, of course. You wouldn't want TWO signs, I guess. How complicated would it be to put signs above individual pieces of scenery -- yes, all those look alike (to me at least) bridges around san francisco)? If one had, say, GPS coordinates for certain places, could these coordinates with a name be placed in the scenery? Should this go in a special directory, say 'namedlocations' or should it just be mixed in with the original scenery? I'm thinking labeling Times Square next time I'm in NYC to get the coordinates Maybe my favorite restaurant, too 8-) I'll find your feature invaluable. Once or twice -- ok, rather often -- 8-) I've landed in FG not at the airport I intended to but at neighboring airport. I am perpetually clueless most of the time... from 2,000 ft, airports all look alike to me. Thank you again and thanks to everyone whose responded on this thread... Ima Melchior wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 15 May 2005 02:12: > BTW: my script is functional again, and shows the balloons over airports. > Now I'll make the billboarding rectangles, and finally create text textures > (dynamically generated by e.g. ImageMagick, and maybe cached) OK. Here's one first real-time rendered "city" sign. (I've filled the database with airports for now.) I've one of these signs hovering over "every" airport (well, actlually only over the nearest 5, which is good enough): http://members.aon.at/mfranz/city-names.jpeg [35 kB] m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
