On 10/06/2009 03:14 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Tim Moore <timo...@redhat.com > <mailto:timo...@redhat.com>> wrote: > > "3D panel" does not mean that you need a 3D view of the cockpit to > see the > instruments. > > > I guess I've never seen an example of anyone configuring an orthographic > view in FlightGear, but I'm sure it's doable. Do we have configuration > level support for this, or would it be a coding exercise? The other It's supported by the camera configuration code that also implements multiple cameras. There is some additional coding to make this fully practical for cockpit panels: an orthographic view is still a view of the entire scene. You can set the far clipping plane to avoid rendering the whole outside world, but that is still forcing the OSG culling code to do a lot of work. If there is a way to "tag" 3d geometry that is part of a panel, then it will be very easy to render only that geometry in the view. > part is that the designer would need to carefully align the panel > surface orthogonal to the view direction to assure there is no warping > of the panel relative to the view plane, again, should be a relatively > simple task, but would need to be done and need to be thought about. So > it's definitely a solvable problem, but there are several extra steps, > and I haven't seen an example to work from within FlightGear. And > generally, if it's never been done before, the first person blazing the > path will typically run into some unexpected surprises. True enough.
Tim > > Regards, > > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
