On Saturday 01 July 2006 17:05, Josh Babcock wrote: > Is there some property that plane modelers can use to do LOD > and turn off certain animations on aircraft that are being > flown remotely? Planes like the bo105 with complex animations > look pretty funny when they are not being flown locally, with > doors missing, rotor blades all in one spot etc. It would be > nice to have some property to key on and just present a > low-LOD version of a plane when it is being viewed as a remote > mp aircraft. > > Josh
I believe the mp 'team' ;) are aware of this problem but it's not a trivial one to solve. It's not impossible, of course, but in addition to everything that is currently being passed between mp clients, a widely varying range of animation data would also have to be exchanged, in a scheme that would also have to cope with multiple instances of identical aircraft. Certainly, having some standardisation in the model and animation scheme would help but atm, I don't think that enough people have developed enough aircraft to have gathered enough knowledge to know what requirements would have to be met in the standards. Put another way, I don't think we know enough yet, to be able to define a standard that would cope with any eventuality. LeeE Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel