On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Björn Kesten wrote: > Stu, do you have plans to "regionalize" the autogenerated buildings?
This is already supported in the code, and just needs someone to spend some time creating textures and changing some XML. The buildings (including the texture to use) are defined in materials.xml, and you can assign different building sizes and distributions to different material types. You can already see that in the difference between Urban and Town/Suburban areas. We already have the ability to select a terrain material based on a <condition> statement, which is evaluated when the tile is loaded, so it is a very easy job to create a new material definition for a given region using a condition statement that checks /position/latitude-deg and /position/longitude-deg I've still to document the new lightmap texture parameter (it's called <building-lightmap>) but the rest of the parameters are documented in data/Docs/README.materials if you want to have a play. Thorsten Renk mentioned that he is looking at integrating Adrian's modified textures, possibly making some of them regionalized. I'm sure you could work with him on this by contributing some more realistic building definitions. Both the current building texture and the lightmap are really just proof of concepts. I'm not very talented as a texture artist, so there's plenty of scope for improving them. "tigert" on the IRC channel has already been looking at improving the textures, and "i4dnf" also mentioned he would be as well. -Stuart You can define the buildings on > If so, one could lift the concept from MSFS. They assigned a > letter-code to every global region (e.g. Germany and Scandinavia was > "K") and thus, you didn't have american wooden houses in Germany or > cobblestone houses in Asia. > This could be done with kind of a "show up in region [A,C,D,H]" tag > for every model and a global "regions" definition file or similar. > > > > B. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
