Ryan M > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan M [mailto:tpbspamm...@gmail.com] > Sent: 10 May 2011 03:46 > To: vivian.mea...@lineone.net; FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: fgdata merge request 76: > Improvedairport Textures > > On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 23:46 +0100, Vivian Meazza wrote: > > I'm afraid that the "improved textures" really aren't an improvement. > > Not only do they not work for taxiways, we have also lost the chevrons > > at the threshold that were quite recently added: > > Really? I certainly did *not* touch the stopway textures- I just copied > the high-resolution stopway textures, scaled them down, and put them > into the low-resolution folder. If they were removed, I'm not sure what > happened. I didn't do that in my commit. > > Stopway textures have been around for quite some time, but they were > missing from materials.xml. I was the one who made that fix. :) > > As for them not looking good at all, most people agree that the grass is > an improvement. Perhaps you could tell me what, specifically, is wrong > with it. Is it too bright? Too bland? Too repetitive? >
The main problem is that the taxiway textures expose the workaround that we use because we don't (yet) have curved taxiways. The concrete colour does not blend with the old texture, which is still used for aprons etc., and the edge and centre lines also serve to emphasize the problem. Here are a couple of examples. ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk:2121/flightgear/Terrain/EGMH-textures.jpg ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk:2121/flightgear/Terrain/EGMH-textures-2.jpg Note the lack of stopways. Presumably something went wrong with the merge. See how every segment of the taxiways is obvious. The colour of the grass is probably a matter of opinion, but note how it fails to merge with the surrounding textures, exposing the cut-in edge of the airfield. I'm very sorry, but IMO this all looks rather unprofessional. I would not wish to release this as it stands. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
