Curtis L. Olson wrote: > I have a little request if someone out there is interested in such a thing. > > Mojave, CA is home to Scaled Composites (Burt Rutan, Spaceship1), > Orbital Dynamcics, The National Test Pilot School, Flight Research Inc. > and several others. It is sort of the civilian counterpart to Edwards > in many ways. > > One of the really distinctive featurs of Mojave is the rows of wind > turbines on the ridges above town. Here's a picture I took the first > time I was out there: > > http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Photos/KMHV/Link/img_2704.html > > You can see the same thing from the satellite imagery. There are > hundreds of these arranged in neat rows: > > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=mojave,+ca&ll=35.050797,-118.27177&spn=0.023679,0.0421&t=k > > > I don't think we could model all of these at their real density level, > but it would be kind of cool to put in every other one, or maybe every > 3rd or 4th one depending on what the graphics load turns out to be. > Last time I checked we already had an animated wind turbine model with > moving blades. > > If you found the two end points of a row in google maps (which does a > pretty good job of giving you accurate lon/lat) then you could write > some little bit of code to generate the intermediate points and spread a > few towers along the row, and maybe even output the .stg lines > directly. If you sent these to Jon Stockhill, he could find all the > proper elevations for you and include them in the FG object database. > > Adding these wind turbines would really spiff up the area ... anyone > interested in working on this? > > Thanks, > > Curt. >
If the graphics load is too much then perhaps the answer is more agressive use of LOD and simpler models. Josh ------------------------------------------------------- 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&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
