> Before going into more detail, you might want to check with Mathias' > recent work to integrate space-view into FlightGear. Otherwise you'll > probably be doing duplicate work.
Well, if Mathias could simply comment on the issue? What can we expect at what timescale? (And how do you know these things - I've never read about any plans to include orbital rendering here). > AFAIK, the Celestia textures are pretty much directly derived from the > Blue Marble textures available from NASA > I think deriving directly from them would be most appropriate According to the Celestia people, their textures are distributed under variants of Creative Commons, prohibiting commerical use. So I think in the long run we need to derive them directly from NASA Blue Marble. However, for the time being I simply intended this as a demo to get things on the way, to be replaced by a more sophisticated solution later, so I guess making it available as addon under Creative Commons terms does the trick for now. > You ought to be able to initialize any vehicle at any altitude (up to and > even beyond 3000 km). At this time, only the Vostok has control jets, as > far as I know. Okay, so then the limits are probably really the grey, red and dark zone of the rendering engine rather than the FMD - can anyone comment on those? I can probably fix the issues by re-defining the light in the shaders of spacecraft models so that everything doesn't go dark, but that's a truly ugly fix. > I do have a > "J246" model that is a launch vehicle designed to place heavy payloads > into > orbit. That is incomplete, and awaiting some simple guidance for the > upper > stage to try and get it into orbit from the launch pad. A couple of years > ago Robin Gerard made a 3D model of that, as well as the pad. It will be > nice to see that fly someday. That seems like a nice second spacecraft in the collection :-) > May I point out there are several spacecraft, waiting for orbital > rendering, for some years now. > > http://seahorseCorral.org/flightgear_aircraft.html Hm, yes - I was rather thinking of real spacecraft than Star Trek. But yes, I think the Trekkies might like to take their shuttles into orbit for a ride. Cheers, * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
