57:: Core feature: As of CVS 26 Dec 2008 I observe that at (say) KJFK the "Tower" view and the "Tower Look From" view are conspicuously broken. Other airports are broken, just less conspicuously so. This appears to be the same problem previously discussed on the devel list under the heading "nearcamera still not rendering" ... i.e. users can see through the ground and discover that short buildings are really just tall buildings sunk deep into the ground. Previously the remedy was to upgrade to OSG 2.7.3 or higher ... but it appears the problem still exists with OSG 2.7.7.
Also in the "Helicopter" view, there is some weird flickering that may be the "flickering gap" previously attributed to nearcamera problems. 58:: Instrument backend: As of CVS 26 Dec 2008, adf.cxx was doing a number of conspicuously unrealistic things, including continuing to drive the needle even after the tuner had been turned off. A patch is available. 59:: Instrument: As of CVS 26 Dec 2008 it appears that the 2D ADF front-end (as installed in e.g. the c182 and c182rg) lacks an on/off switch. What's worse, it appears to lack any kind of "test" function ... which is sometimes rather important when using an ADF in the Real World. In contrast, the 3D ADF front end in the c172p does implement these features (although it still needs to get its hotspots lined up with its buttons; see bug #12). 60:: c172p: several instruments: As of CVS 26 Dec 2008, several instruments including the ADF and the VHF navcomms as installed in the c172p have the following property: When the electrical power is cut off, their front-end displays continue to glow merrily (even though the VOR CDI needles stop working). This is unrealistic. As discussed on the list, it would be straightforward to fix this bug plus the previous bug (and bug #12 too) by patching the "private" copies of these instruments associated with the c172p, but it would be a much better use of resources, in the short run and super-especially in the long run, to un-fork the code and teach the c172p to use instruments e.g. from the pa24-250 where these bugs have long since been fixed. A patch to do this is available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
