Not sure if I am using different scenery than John was/is, but while I have slightly reduced frame rates at the airport or pointed towards the terminal (20 +), flying around Manhattan or the area does not affect my rate from a normal of 30-40.
This is on a Macbook Pro, intel c2d, 3gb usable ram, and Tat's 2.0.0-pre3. Peter On Feb 4, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Martin Spott wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Tim Moore wrote: > >> I haven't looked at NYC in a while, but our urban areas tend to get >> clobbered, particularly when the scenery guys strut their stuff for a new >> release. > > The vast majority of the changes I've recently pushed to the Base > Backage CVS had either been moving/sorting files between directories or > updating files in order to reflect the past ambient colour change. Very > few 'new' files have been added, mostly lightweight stuff and, as far > as I remember, none of these affect the NYC area. > > BTW, even the forementioned 'new' stuff has been around on the usual > download locations either at "http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/"; or > via TerraSync (the NYC Scenery hasn't been part of the Base Package > anyway). Therefore I'm unable to identify a reasonable cause why recent > changes from the Scenery department should be having a noticeable > impact in terms of runtime performance, you might have to go finding > another culprit :-) > >> The ideal would be to coalesce all the buildings in a city block into one >> model with one texture. > > We're doing our best to prevent this .... > Actually one could think of adding a preprocessing stage between the > 'raw' ressources (Terrain and AC3D models) and the FlightGear runtime > environment by collapsing 1x1 degree or smaller area tiles into a > single Scenery file of a format to be choosen, but as long as > Sim-/FlightGear doesn't provide the infrastructure to deal with this > flavour of Scenery (including all the animation stuff and the like), I > don't see us getting there too soon. > > Cheers, > Martin. > -- > Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
