David Baron wrote: > What I mean by visual tools is something that will let me drag my building to > where I want it. Hand-entering coordinants is why New York has buildings > rowing out of the East River (or are these tombstones for giant gangsters?).
Actually the buildings are in the right place (according to the FAA at least) - it's the river that's wrong. Objects can be placed interactively using the UFO - press ? for a list of the keys after starting flightgear with the UFO. > Scaling stock objects by both height and horizontal dimensions.I noticed no > generic bridges on the site but there are only a handfull of types so this > should be easy enough but need horizontal scaling here. There's no support for scaling objects at runtime (unless the scale is tied to a property in the xml file associated with the model). While it would be possible to do this you then have the problem of setting the properties for each model included in the scenery. It may be possible to extend the stg format to handle this, but IME generic bridge models don't really work that well because there's so much variation. > OK. I do not know how the texture background is being done. The "carpet" > resolution is very low, however, so there should be some solution. BTW, US > Geological Survey has 1km square images (high resolution) which are > downloadable and should be free (we paid for them with our tax dollars). Also > contour maps. > > One might consider custom "building blocks" for specific cities. Green-area > textures are really generic if one places a few landmarks here and there. That can already be done - it requires changes to the base data set we're using (VMAP0 data is very coarse - see the german scenery for how well it can work when the source data is a lot better). > OF course, if I really want the real real thing, need a real Cessna as > well :-). Minimal VFR, seat of pants navigation aids are what I suggest.' You provide the positions, I'll place the objects. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
