On Donnerstag 29 September 2005 01:49, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> >>I downloaded the west europe sceneries (files
> >>w010n30.tgz and w010n40.tgz) but when
> >>I try to launch fgfs as
> >>$ fgfs --lat=40.0 --lon=-10.0 or
> >>$ fgfs --lat=40.0 --lon=-10.0 --in-air --altitude=5000
> >>
> >>I only get a black screen!!!
> >>Even the top menu bar does not show!
> >>I need to issue ctrl-c in the console to terminate fg.
> >>
> >>What's wrong?
> >>Thanks
> >
> >The answer is:
> >
> >You must give --lat=40.1 and lon=10.1
> >or everything else but a full value .
> >because FG does not know how to process with a value which define the
> >beginning of a tile or the end of the other.
>
> To add some clarification. For some reason our ground intersection code
> can fail if you specify a starting point that is *exactly* on the corner
> of a tile. A simple work around is to specify something like --lat=40.1
> or --lat=40.00001 --lon=10.00001
Hmm, Some time ago, I fixed a real bug in this area together with an attempt
to make that stuff more robust.
And in fact, using the cvs tree, I can start at --lat=40.0 --lon=-10.0.
Does somebody still experience something different using the development tree?
Greetings
Mathias
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Mathias Fröhlich, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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