-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Bechtold wrote: > Hello! > > Around 6 weeks ago, I came up here with the idea to represent ground > features through textures rather than through terrain mesh polygons for > more detail and easier modification (which is of course not my own idea, > but it's definitely a practical one and not yet implemented in > FlightGear). I'm currently trying to develop a texture generator program > which generates fake aerial images using the same ESRI shapefile data > that is used for TerraGear scenery generation, and it is now for the > first time able to produce some useful results. I'd like to present some > images that were made with it, hoping that someone with knowledge about > OSG and FlightGear's terrain rendering system might perhaps like them at > least a little bit so that she/he might want to help me finding a way to > get them into the sim. They use FlightGear's terrain textures, so it > looks much like the current FlightGear scenery, but with curved roads > and rivers and a few other improvements (more to come, I have some > further ideas and this is still a very early stage of development). All > pictures show german towns: > > Mainz, Wiesbaden and the Rhine river: > http://www.rotblind.de/fgstuff/fgst/mainz_wiesbaden.jpg > http://www.rotblind.de/fgstuff/fgst/stuttgart.jpg > http://www.rotblind.de/fgstuff/fgst/karlsruhe.jpg > http://www.rotblind.de/fgstuff/fgst/heidelberg.jpg > This is very cool. Can you generate these "mega-textures" in real time?
Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG9sAxeDhWHdXrDRURAl5HAKC+BwryZinoz9a7H397JfgAFlvODQCcCCdy MUGuSO/MR1zpsIVRcbJeujk= =pBpt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
