Hi Stuart, played around with this a bit yesterday... *very* nice feature!
> The default values look about right to me from a typical > temperate latitudes viewpoint, and using > much smaller values gives a quite nice effect possibly suitable for > more northerly latitudes. I agree that the defaults 45/60 seem quite realistic as far as real vegetation cover goes, but the problem is our terrain: Due to the coarse resolution in default terrain, we systematically underestimate steep slopes. I've noticed for instance that any snow veto on steep slopes which looks realistic in the French Alps custom scenery doesn't do anything in the Rocky Mountains default scenery. I guess same with trees - in order to get the visual comparison of Canaima or Yosemite with photographs right, I had to go to 30/45 instead. The wateralls have the same issue - since the slope is always underestimated, one has to throw them really far into the air to make them fall all the way down... So, I would maybe suggest to think about changing the defaults to 30/45, study a few more test cases and if someone wants to have different values in custom scenery he can use a regional definition to do that. I know it's technically not correct, but I think correcting for some systematic flaws in our scenery is a valid goal. * 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
