Hi,
during the last days I tested FG 0.9.11 Pre using several different
scenarios, of course related to my personal interests and therefore only
a subset of FG's possibilities.
Generally spoken, this is a very stable running version on my system
(OpenSUSE 10.2). I could not see any big problems, only "smaller" ones
(see further text).
Coming from the latest FG OSG CVS I enjoyed the higher framerates and a
little nicer colours. Compared to the Pre-Pre-Versions with the
stuttering problems, this version runs very smooth with "normal"
sceneries (only at higher object density level there are some loading
stutters).
>From my point of view, this is the best release version of FlightGear
ever, from the technical side.
There are only some remarks I want to make, not sure what is already
known or not:
1. Placing aircraft (gliders) on undulating landscape not possible
I use this to place the Bocian glider at the Menden-Barge gliderfield
("Arnsberg scenery") to make a winch-start and it works perfectly with
FG OSG/CVS:
"--lon=7.841730 --lat=51.461965 --heading=236". This is only one
example, I tested it with several places.
With FG 0.9.11 Pre it works on "flat" landscape but if there is a rising
surface not only the Bocian but every tested aircraft is stuck into the
ground (and visually damaged, like the Bo105)ยท
2. Triangle distorted sky also with Anthrax GUI
Although using the Anthrax-GUI, the sky gets "triangulated" when using a
submenu with (orange???) input-fields. This "triangle" distortion
disappears immediatly after leaving the input field.
3. Winter textures (partially) broken (same for OSG version)
As we had the first snow here the last days I wanted to use the
winter-textures for a flight (--season=winter) but was disappointed as
it seams to be broken. Some of the winter textures display right, other
are only visible from a specific small view-angle. With another
view-angle the ground has some sort of brown colour, no real texture.
(It is also broken with FG/OSG CVS, here most of the textures won't
display, only one or two).
Is this specific to my system? Or is it broken on your system, too?
4. 3D clouds crash
Selecting 3D clouds in the rendering menu crashes FlightGear after
closing the window. When used as a startup parameter FlightGear does not
run.
Do I remember right that this is an older problem and depending on the
video-driver/card of the user system???
4. Please make "gstunnel" menu switchable
Melchiors gstunnel.nas works with the Prerelease version. This could be a
very nice new feature for the new FG version if Melchior could make it
switchable (on/off) by a menu entry.
I remember that it helped me a lot a long, long time ago with the
flightsim of those days ...
Regards
Georg EDDW
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