> Until you hear those texture where created by someone from Europe. Hmm, not really. Actually the city textures, like builtup.rgb and resgrid.rgb, are probably taken from satellite images of some US resident area. At least it looks like this :-)
As far as I see it, the manual alteration of the city textures should be kept as an option. By default the use of the regional textures makes more sence, since modifying every town would be just too time consuming. Using the poligons as a virtual marker for the regions sounds good. This way the regions can be defined much better as based on coordinates. The question is, how difficult it would be to detect in which region you are then. Ultimately, the according textures might be packaged with the scenery-tiles. This way, if we would have many MBs of regional textures, you only would have to download the textures you need. Well - just an idea, don't know if that would be technically possible. So to sum it up - we already have people with textures and willing to create new ones and populate 'the world' with them. But so far we lack the ability to use them, since the landcovertypes are not used by terragear at the moment, the PostGIS-DB isn't used by terragear for scenery-generation yet and the regions aren't defined yet. Or am I mistaken? Mark Martin Spott wrote: >Jon Stockill wrote: > > > >>We have a more european city texture already - just no way of using it >>on anything but a global scale >> >> > >Obviously there are different ways to employ different city/whatever >textures. One way would be to manually re-adjust all cities over the >world and assign the appropriate textures to them. >We actually _can_ do this with the Landcover DB but this is very time >consuming and I don't think it will lead to the desired result. On the >other hand somebody could define different continents/regions for different >textures (think of: North America, South America, Central Europe, East >Euurope, Middle Asia .....) and let FlightGear apply the appropriate >texture based on the current location. > >We could define some polygons that surround a well-defined region and >then prepend some identifier to the texture name that matches the >according region. > >Cheers, > Martin. > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
