On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:47:38 +0200, ThorstenB wrote in message <aanlktimo3_5jeaskpon6xq749v+wk=skstrqoebfb...@mail.gmail.com>:
> Hi, > > maybe I can raise some more attention to a specific bug, which keeps > me from using FG properly. I have also heard a number of other people > complaining. If I could vote, I'd like to vote for this issue to be > the currently most annoying FlightGear bug: ..I take the black box approach along the lines: _Is_ it a bug, or a feature of aircrew management etc traffic simulation, or a feature of the developing simulator, as in somebody is working on the destination scenery tiles during these long flights. > Scenery tiles keep disappearing (when flying a longer distances), > http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=122 > > It's very disappointing when you approach your destination airport, > have the runway in sight, and then when you get too close, *whoosh* it > just disappears into a patch of blue sky. ..can happen in RL too, this is when you swear a wee bit, pick up your flight plan and pick our best alternate destination from it just like the RL guys does. > You can still try to land in the void - but it's certainly not much > fun. ..depends, some of us likes to play these silly naughty rule torturous Counter Strike wild ass Doom kinda crazy games that in RL will earn you nice clean white cozy long sleeve shirt like it did Mathias Rust. ;o) > You can keep flying - and then the scenery tiles sometimes reappear > in the distance... ..maybe reload rebuilt-during-long-flights scenery tiles before we approach them? Takes a We-Have-The-Latest-Tile? check. > To me this happens *very* often, feels like > 50% of all longer > distance flights. I'm not sure about the minimum distance it takes to > trigger, maybe about more than 60miles from the original airport. So > this keeps me from flying longer navigation routes. I can stay within > a limited area around my departure airport to avoid this. But circling > in one area gets boring soon... > It applies to all platforms: tracker issue was raised for mac, I see > it on Linux, and during the Frankfurt ATC sessions I've heard several > people complaining with Windows systems. The tracker mentions FG 1.9.1 > and 2.0.0 - and I also see it with the latest GIT. Maybe not everyone > sees this issues - or not with the same high probability. .._which_ EDDC scenery tile????? There are several, AFAIUI. > I'm willing to help with testing and also debugging. But I don't know > much about the FG scenery and graphics system - and don't want to > start from scratch on my own. > > So, please, any help on this bug, any hints on what I could check, > which FlightGear modules could be related, any ideas on how to locate > this issue are welcome. ..first, play with your FG command line to reliably, reproduce the bug you see, and then post it here. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
