Re: [osg-users] Metaflight pager code
Attached is the MetaFlight pager code that I wrote a while back. Once people who are interested in it get familiar with it, we can discuss whether or not it should be rolled into OSG. -- Terry Welsh www.reallyslick.com metaflight.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
[osg-users] Metaflight pager code
Hi, Some parties have asked about using the MetaFlight terrain loader/pager I wrote years ago. My employer says that it would be alright to opensource this piece of software. Does anyone have any suggestions for good places online to opensource a project like this? It's likely that this software satisfies too small of a niche to be included anywhere in OSG, but that would be fine by me. For some background, I wrote this software so that I could page in MetaFlight terrain databases without processing them to add PagedLOD nodes. It uses libxml2 to parse a MetaFlight file (.mft) which contains a description of the terrain layout. Then you updated it with one or more eyepoints each frame and it continuously loads and unloads the appropriate tiles. It does not support the entire MetaFlight spec, just common functionality that I use; maybe the opensource community will improve it. -- Terry Welsh mogumbo 'at' gmail.com www.reallyslick.com ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Metaflight pager code
It's likely that this software satisfies too small of a niche to be included anywhere in OSG, but that would be fine by me. It's Robert's call, but I wouldn't be opposed to seeing it integrated into OSG somehow. I don't know how it operates, so I don't know if it's a OSG-style loader plugin, or somethign different. If it doesn't belong in OSG core, I would recommend Google Code. I've used it for several F/OSS projects of mine, and it is functional and reliable in my experience. -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere. xe...@alphapixel.com http://www.alphapixel.com/ Training • Consulting • Contracting 3D • Scene Graphs (Open Scene Graph/OSG) • OpenGL 2 • OpenGL 3 • OpenGL 4 • GLSL • OpenGL ES 1 • OpenGL ES 2 • OpenCL Digital Imaging • GIS • GPS • Telemetry • Cryptography • Digital Audio • LIDAR • Kinect • Embedded • Mobile • iPhone/iPad/iOS • Android ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Metaflight pager code
Hi Terry, I'm open to a MetaFlight support being integrated into core OpenSceneGraph release. I know very little about your code so can't comment on how easily it'd fit within the OSG codebase. I know of others that are interested in MetaFlight support so I'm sure there is scope for others helping out. For me the first step would be to publish the code. github, googlecode or some other repository would be fine, but if it does look appropriate for merging with the OpenSceneGraph mainline it might be best to post the code informally and then let the discussion about it begin. Potentially we can add you as a wriiter for the directories within the OSG that it'd need. Robert. On 12 June 2012 17:03, Terry Welsh mogu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some parties have asked about using the MetaFlight terrain loader/pager I wrote years ago. My employer says that it would be alright to opensource this piece of software. Does anyone have any suggestions for good places online to opensource a project like this? It's likely that this software satisfies too small of a niche to be included anywhere in OSG, but that would be fine by me. For some background, I wrote this software so that I could page in MetaFlight terrain databases without processing them to add PagedLOD nodes. It uses libxml2 to parse a MetaFlight file (.mft) which contains a description of the terrain layout. Then you updated it with one or more eyepoints each frame and it continuously loads and unloads the appropriate tiles. It does not support the entire MetaFlight spec, just common functionality that I use; maybe the opensource community will improve it. -- Terry Welsh mogumbo 'at' gmail.com www.reallyslick.com ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
