Andy Ross wrote:
There isn't a good way to do it right now. The current HUD code is very old, and predates the 3D cockpits. It just draws directly to the screen (with a matrix hack to make it appear in the correct 3D orientation) with no clipping at all.
The HUD is one of the very original pieces of code in the FlightGear project. We had the hud implimented even before we were able to put textures on terrain, before there was any notion of land use/land cover, even before we had any 2d instrument panels, before there was a property system, before xml.
It might not be a bad idea to start thinking about rewriting this, or even doing a soft-coded HUD using the existing animation tools.
The original hud code has served us pretty well, but we have learned and grown so much as a project in the mean time. It would be a large effort for someone, but I agree with Andy that it is probably getting close to time for a complete rewrite.
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