Chris Wilkinson > > > way I think to do it though is to have a large number of generic > > buildings > > that can be matched into areas surrounding the detailed > areas, on a bland > > texture. So that way you won't have your buildings not > matching up with the > > ground texturing. That's just my take on it although a nice > large area of > > photo scenery for SEQLD would be nice. Unfortunately I have > no recent images, > > mine are from the 90's. Thanks, > > I use grabs from Google earth as test textures. I'm not sure > how the copyright of those covers using them in that manner, > or if they can be freely distributed as part of a scenery > pack for fg. Playing with them at home is harmless enough in > my humble opinion... :-) >
Indeed, for your personal use, but the copyright definitely precludes their use to be distributed with or in FG. So unless you come up with either a work-around, or permission from Google you are simply doing this for your own amusement. And there's nothing wrong with that, but it's a shame to expend effort on a product that cannot (legally) be shared with the FG community. AC3D is my modelling tool of choice, I'm not surprised that you find it easy to use. Blender is more capable, but much more difficult to learn. I've given up :-). As we progress our cutover to OSG, perhaps you should be aware that textures which include transparency have disproportionate effect on framerates We already have several buildings in the KSFO area which are causing difficulties under OSG. We need to do some more work to see if this can be fixed. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
