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gh.robin wrote: > On Wed 11 July 2007 10:18, Maik Justus wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just for clarification: >> The leading slash has no influence, if a property if transferred over >> the MP-protocol (that is a hard-coded list). >> But if you use an absolute path instead of a relative, then the >> animation depends only on the absolute path, even if the model is a >> MP-aircraft. >> If the players-aircraft has the same property defined as >> the MP-aircraft is referencing (e.g. the player uses the same aircraft), >> than the MP-aircraft will show the same animations as the players >> aircraft. This is valid for every animation, not only elevator and gear. >> Therefore every aircraft should do relative references to the property >> wherever it is possible. >> >> Maik >> > > That is exactly what i wonder, with the increase of aircraft animations, > there > is , and will be, more and more, accurate animations, > => for instance highly detailed gears with compression animation, struts, > actuators, connecting-rods, ......... (i have a model not yet in CVS which > has such costly animations), > within MP , which such animations we are going to a huge cpu consumption with > significant loss of FPS, i have with my computer that problem, which is still > acceptable. > > Could it be possible , to limit the MP animation only to <property> surface > position <property/>, the model creators will take care of i. > When making the animations, he could decide if one specification is valuable > for the pilot only or valuable for both the pilot and the MP visual observer. > I find correct gear very important. Seeing aircrafts taxing around without gear extended, or gear that isn't resting on ground correctly, is quite irritating. Also isn't it possible to create a "low res" model that will be used for AI aircrafts? Regards AnMaster -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGlL9uWmK6ng/aMNkRCqaoAKCJeE4+bGze4EB4EnT0LM6wF3aY1gCeNlMy 3GRssVoqb2DU28ze0VxqwXc= =G3Ti -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
