On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:56:49 +0200, laurent wrote in message <cadbvqancq147rosjj_gx3dsmce2rjsmtrgc66g_rgm8tsn5...@mail.gmail.com>:
> > > > > Yes, in fact it's a 3D application (even if camera always lookat > > > ground...) > > > > ..but why always look at the ground? _Sometimes_ other views > > make more sense, e.g. to see a pilot's view, to understand why > > he might be getting confused. > > > > For 2 reasons: > - First i have not yet implemented altitude, and it's not easy > beacause only Google Map API can provide it and my system is plane ..you mean plane as in 2D and not airplane or aircraft? ..another possible "ATC" style view could have you offering a 3D view with traffic on e.g. flight level layers, e.g. with color coded movement vectors and flight plan "spaghetti straw", and compare that with fancy computerized WWII style 2D radar screens, to study potential ATC controller confusion, or airport noise, or an "app view" to suggest emergency approaches like this: http://www.x-plane.com/x-world/hardware/seeker-avionics/ > based and need some adaptation... > - If you look at horizon you need to process more data, it will work > on PC but on ios.... ..you're not using OpenGL type graphics? ..what little I've seen on the web from people in the Gnome DE forks, is the C# and Mono etc .NET style tools are harder to use in development than GNU style free tools, on top of the patent litigation risks. ..based on some of the _very_ cool ideas behind some of the code I reject on Microsoft litigation risks, I would have thought it was the other way around, that C# and Mono etc would have the easier to use development tool suites. ..the problem with reimplementing Microsoft technology like the Gnome DE people likes to do, is your copyright isn't just worthless because it might "reimplement" a new way to infringe on Microsoft's patents, your copyright might easily aquire a big negative value, if a jury finds "you have profited from infringing on e.g. a Microsoft patent claim", does not even have to be true, e.g. Samsung was hit by a stupid lazy jury: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120908144706110 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120904190933195 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012082510525390 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120910173105532 -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
