[Flightgear-devel] another git question

2012-10-02 Thread Curtis Olson
I know how everyone loves git questions here, so this is a bit off topic, but I have another crazy git question. The situation is probably weird enough that I might not be able to explain it well enough to get an answer, but let me try. The situation is that I have a master git repository on my l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML include (and value overriding) question

2012-10-02 Thread Curtis Olson
For the sake of completeness, there is also the xml parameterization system often used for panel/instrument configuations. However, the down side of that is that it can lead to some crazy/convoluted path names that can be brittle and are highly dependent on nesting levels -- a functional but unwie

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Depth buffers, render bins and passes

2012-10-02 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi Thorsten, > De: "Renk Thorsten" > > I'm trying to understand why clouds can obscure hills and hills can > obscure clouds properly. > > My individual bits of knowledge are: > > * clouds are drawn from outside in, because they are in a depth > sorted bin, and this is why clouds obscure other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Advanced Weather broken

2012-10-02 Thread Stuart Buchanan
-Stuart On 2 Oct 2012, at 08:01, Renk Thorsten Before I start digging into the tile manager code (which is really something > I'd rather not do) - Stuart, is there any non-trivial change you did when > merging the weather GUI apart from just shifting menu options to a different > place? Anyt

[Flightgear-devel] Advanced Weather broken

2012-10-02 Thread Renk Thorsten
It seems some change during the last weeks broke parts of Advanced Weather in at least two places (I had no problems under any conditions until my update yesterday, now I can reproduce both issues consistently on both master and my devel branch). The more serious problem is that under some cond