Melchior FRANZ wrote > > * Stuart Buchanan -- Wednesday 09 April 2008: > > As I mentioned in my reply to Vivian, I don't want any > dependency on > > the Aircraft tree, > > You don't want that, fine. And *I* don't want a parallel > structure of aircraft with megabytes of duplicated files. > > So, please let's discuss that first, before anyone dumps more > of that stuff into $FG_ROOT/AI/! > > > Do we really want MP support for all aircraft in the base > package, at a cost of an extra 200 MB of data? Wrappers are > fine (like Vivian described), but do we want a complete > concorde.ac with all textures > *again* in the AI/ dir? If someone wants the Concorde > displayed, then s/he can install it, no? > > I'd prefer fgfs to show better information about which > aircraft couldn't be shown because they aren't installed, and > a better LOD concept (LOD in the aircraft dir, where it > belongs). And if we really want the independence, then we > should make sure that this is cheap. Textures should be > scaled down a *lot*, the model should be drastically > poly-reduced, the whole aircraft shouldn't take more than 250 > kB (or something). And we don't need MP-versions of Ogel, > wrightfligher and others. > > m.
If you install the .ac file, the model file, slightly amended, and the textures, you might as well go the whole hog and install the complete aircraft. Stuart's proposal will significantly increase the size of the base package. I'm inclined towards Melchior's view on this one. V. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
