> I've sometimes wondered if we could have much greater variety of > 'trees', to place scrub (cactus in Central America, bramble in Scotland) > in areas where full trees don't make sense. I guess wi the regional > materials that ought to be much easier?
Yes, it's quite straightforward - tropical South America actually uses the tropical tree texture sheet instead of the default trees. If anyone wants to make a cactus sheet? Or whatever alternative tree sheets - it's pretty straightforward to implement, but I'd also volunteer to do it if needed. > Doesn't that mostly depend on the average temperature? > Which usually depends in the first order on the lattitude and altitude > above sea level. What is beyond this temperature dependence could be tracked > with specific materials then. Not that much. In Finland, we have plenty of birches for instance, but in the Alps there is never a pronouced birch zone when you go up. Also, birches love light, so you often see them on southern slopes, to change to fir on the northern slopes of hills. Greece would have pronounced Cedar forests, except they were all cut down 3000 years ago for ships, so all you get now is shrub. Managed forests don't fall into reasonable patterns in any case. To work out a good scheme which captures all that so that we'd really in the end not need too many regional declarations to get it right isn't quite trivial. * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
