On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Stuart Buchanan <stuar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > In an effort to help with this I've been looking at two fixes: > 1) A control to disable sub-model loading for AI aircraft. This > effectively stops the model loader from recursing into <model> tags, > and therefore stops it from loading any sub-models such as cockpits, > instruments, pilots etc. Note that this is generally better than > having a LOD node on the cockpit, because it doesn't even get as far > as loading the file, nor does the cockpit take up any space in the > scenegraph > 2) A control to set the LOD for AI aircraft. Currently this is > hardcoded to 50nm, which is probably too far for most purposes.
Generally I prefer proper LOD and getting rid of specialized AI versions. I want to see AI/MP aircraft in full detail when I am near one - or even inside. Ideally I want to see all the instruments properly working when I hitch a ride using model+cockpit view. In the long run, I hope we will be able to couple animations to MP protocol, so that the required properties (and only those!) would be transmitted automatically as dynamically determined by the current LOD. Speaking of stuttering, another issue reported on the forums and also experienced by me, is periodic (~1s) stutter even with plenty of FPS. That is with AI traffic (both kinds) and replay turned off, single-player. I couldn't determine the cause yet. Anybody have an idea? -- Csaba/Jester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
