John Denker wrote: > On 12/12/2008 09:36 AM, Durk Talsma wrote: > >> If all goes well, I would like to prepare the final release version next >> Friday. > > Wow. > >> Until that time please hold back on committing anything risky, and >> give these prereleases a decent workout. Let's try to make this the best >> FlightGear release yet. :-) > > I haven't had time to do a decent workout ... just a pre-flight > walkaround and a re-check of some longstanding bugs. > > Here is a list of a few dozen opportunities for improvement. > ... > 2:: c172p: As of rc2, there does not appear to be any interior area > lighting or any "post" lighting for the instruments. The light > sources are not present, and the knob that would control them is not > present. Lighting is ordinarily needed for night flight. It would be > nice to portray the lighting-control knob, but even nicer to have > additional control via the keyboard and/or via a drop-down menu, > since the knob would be hard to find at night, creating a > chicken-and-egg problem. > > 3:: c172p: As of rc2, the aircraft's landing and taxi lights are > not effective at illuminating the runway or other surfaces. This > is an issue for night operations. ... After 2.0 I'll start merging in my Effects framework code that will make, among other things, local light sources practical. I'm not sure if the best way to do cockpit lighting is to have a light source in the cockpit or to simply turn up the emissiveness of the instruments and dashboard...
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