Martin Spott wrote:
Almost every engineer facing a problem starts with creating a plan -
this is what we are being taught when real life hits us after leaving
university ;-)
What are the implications of the OBJECT_{TAXI,RUN}WAY_SIGN feature ?
If you/we walk this path this would imply creating gazillions of
scenery objects for all medium to large airports in the world.
Hi Martin,
I cannot agree more with you. I really hope we will have in the near
future some automatic way for inserting those taxiway signs in the airports.
I am currently playing a little bit with those signs on EDDF, it's
educative, I am learning how to read them, how to position them, it
helps a lot while taxing around.
But there's a very big con, it takes an enormous amount of time to
create and position them by hand. I started making some templates for
the most common combinations/dimensions and using a few script to
automate the process of rescaling and texturing them all. But it's not
enough, it takes too much time for even a single airport (of course,
EDDF is very big, not every airport is that much complicated).
Anyway, I will finish EDDF 'cause it could be nice to use that at
Wiesbaden LinuxTag as a starting airport, but I don't think I will do
that again :-)
Is there someone who knows EDDF well enough to check the result at EDDF
and tell me if it's close enough to reality? I'm basing the current work
on an FAA paper but I'm not an expert at all, I'd like to have some
comments from real pilots too. I think it will be finished (basic
runway/taxiway signs) in a couple of days.
The guy
who will be given credit to these objects in the Scenery Objects DB
will reach a score that will never get topped as long as our short life
lasts :-)
That's something I would not be proud of :-)
Roberto
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