dene maxwell wrote : > Hi Fred, > >> From: Frederic Bouvier >> >> Quoting dene maxwell : >> >> > Hi Fred, >> > IIRC, when I was using FGSD and TaxiDraw to get the "new" NZWN >> layout. When >> > I laid it onto the processed raw data, in parts it *sunk* below the >> terrain >> > because the terrain wasn't expecting (read suitably modified) to >> accomodate >> > the airport. At that stage I thought that the terrain had to be >> marked as >> > *airport* so the elevations generated by the TaxiDraw output would >> over-ride >> > the terrain elevations. >> > >> > Subsequently I have come across some-one that had trees growing in the >> > middle of the runway; even when the TaxiDraw output sat on the >> terrain ok, >> > but the underlying terrain was not marked as *airport* but *forest (or >> > whatever)* and *random objects* were enabled. >> > >> > This was quite a few months ago so I may not be up with the *current* >> > play...but I believe this is still the case ...yeah? >> >> No, this is not, or you followed a wrong process ( use an old airport >> with a >> generated terrain, or vice-versa ) > > I'm fairly sure this what I did...generated new terrain then tried to > add the *old* airport back in. > The new terrain has parts that were higher in elevation than the > runway and in those places they covered it.....
For quite some time, fgsd is able to generate ( correctly textured ) airports objects and the matching surrounding terrain. What is actually missing is runway lighting and surface smoothing that will come next. -Fred -- Frédéric Bouvier http://frfoto.free.fr Photo gallery - album photo http://www.fotolia.fr/p/2278 Other photo gallery http://fgsd.sourceforge.net/ FlightGear Scenery Designer ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
