Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Danie Heath wrote: I finally got the sim running. Here's my first impressions * Ground texturing excellent, except taxiways and ramps We are aware of that. But nobody had been able to create new ones ;-) * I've only seen the default aircraft, but I will start development

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread John Check
On Sunday 03 March 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: Danie Heath wrote: I finally got the sim running. Here's my first impressions * Ground texturing excellent, except taxiways and ramps We are aware of that. But nobody had been able to create new ones ;-) * I've only seen the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
John Check writes: That's a good thing. One thing to consider is the number of polygons, which we think shouldn't bee too high because of the hardware we want it to run on. Also, there is currently a bug in the model loader that is preventing the default model from being

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread Jim Wilson
Danie Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: forward to some nice developments. As a fan of anti-Microsoft bans, I can't wait to screw Bill Gates and his company with this amazing piece of software. OT We have a lot to thank Bill Gates for, including the way he (especially) and others got under

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: OT We have a lot to thank Bill Gates for, including the way he (especially) and others got under Richard Stallman's (and others) skin with their shrink-wrap revolution. We owe Bill a debt of gratitude for making sure that open source became a popular idea, even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Yes, originally, that's correct. Something to do with ATT and a printer driver, I think. I was just speaking of Bill...since back in those days the profile for Stallman's project was lower too. That is to mean lower than after the mid eighties, when