I am new to the list, love the program. The scenery is spectacular, quite realistic at a distance or altitude. Superb.
Where to go? Visuals are the main thing. No blind pilots (I hope). Cities: San Francisco--this is where Flightgear leaves its heart. This scenery is very very well developed, realistic, landmarks are there, the way it should be. New York--a mess (someone from 'Frisco would always say that!). NO landmarks, the bridges are missing, only generic buildings, many misplaced, growing out of the river. One wants to see at least a hint of the skyline approaching a city. New York is a big dissappointment here.Tell me how I could contribute to this? Boston--OK. Only generics but the pattern looks Boston. Chicago--OK. The once-highest prudential seems dwarfed among all the generics but at least this building of unique design is there. (I remember the original Msoft simulator--only this building but one knew one was in Chicago!) Israeli cities -- I live there. Why NO landmarks, no city buildings, just bear airports and some sparcely populated terrain. Again, I might be able to help with this. Airports: A terminal or hangar, some building would give a sense of scale. Good approaches, without any depth perception or feel for altitude are nigh-impossible. Ground detail: Seems to be generic, the same squirl and watertower most everywhere. OK from on high but flying VFR, one looks for landmarks: Rivers, highways, formations, distinctive places. These are largely absent or not nicely represented in some cases. OK, I followed (what I guessed was) route 9 into Boston and got there. The broad dark line could just as easily been a river, though. There are some gray roads and black roads around but barely adequate as locational hints. Maybe the generic texture keeps the disk space down and resources within reason (the program is maybe the most GLUTonous on my system.) However, if one plays with GoogleEarth (a nice, not very useful but fun novelty), one sees lots of stuff which could be used as REAL ground texture for most everywhere. This material may be freely available or licensable as suggested in another posting. Also, the GoogleEarth photos are from above (NY is quite detailed!), normal skyline pics from the side. An algorithm suggests itself. To all working on Flightgear, well done, keep on flying! I am a software person myself with a good eye so let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
