Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-24 Thread Jon Stockill
Manuel Massing wrote: There would still be a fair amount of work left to integrate such an engine into flightgear, even after the release of the engine, but given enough interest, I'd like to work on the remaining issues (I guess on the flightgear side e.g. defining and implementing a more loosely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-24 Thread Manuel Massing
Hello Oliver, This sounds very interesting. But i also have some questions about this engine. Is it a irregular grid or regular grid engine? If the latter is the case how many lod levels does the engine allow and is there a barrier if your viewpoint is to far away from the grid? The engine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-24 Thread Manuel Massing
Hi, It sounds VERY interesting, the sample images and video look extremely impressive. If it does get released under the GPL, and can be integrated then I think it'd be a crime not to try. What sort of tools are available for producing the scenery? Well, I have written a few perl scripts

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mamaloucos.com: I just rang Europress publishers of the Getmapping high in the sky series (reminded by Boris's question). I spoke to Richard Charge their head of Sales. To be very clear this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message I have been asking Getmapping if it is permissible use for people to buy their CDs and then use the exported image in FG in a personal flight sim. ..wrong question; IMHO you should have said _GPL_

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message I have been asking Getmapping if it is permissible use for people to buy their CDs and then use the exported image in FG in a personal flight sim. ..wrong question; IMHO you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Anyway, I am going to give this also a shot and contact some companies that provide aerial/satellite image data, could anybody here provide the details concerning the requirements that need to be met for an image to be suitable to be used as a texture for FlightGear ? One meter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread David Luff
On 9/23/04 at 7:13 PM Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Anyway, I am going to give this also a shot and contact some companies that provide aerial/satellite image data, could anybody here provide the details concerning the requirements that need to be met for an image to be suitable