Am Freitag 03 März 2006 21:55 schrieb Martin Spott: > Jon Stockill wrote: > > I think there have been objects added for that area, but the screenshots > > I've seen seem to indicate that a lot more are available. The power > > station data for Germany was added this morning, so that'll give a few > > hundred more objects when it's exported tonight. Just a generic model > > for now, but since these things are often used as reporting points > > [...] > > To my experience power stations are most useful when you fly over the > clouds and don't want to bother with radio navigation. Simply follow > the cloud-'towers' that break through the 'regular' cloud layers and > you're done :-)
Yep, we're just calling them visual VOR, though visual NDB might be more appropiate... Nice for cross bearings if you only have 1 VOR receiver. BTW would it be possible to somehow wrap the 3D clouds code in a model animation, so that it could be used for smoke/steam plumes from cooling towers? Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
