Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 07:40, Julien Pierru wrote: Teotihuacan pyramid complex: http://flamebunny.homelinux.net/pics/fgfs/Teotihuacan.jpg (20m NE of Mexico City MMMX on heading 045); Nice, but we clearly see a nasty scenery bug there --- there is no river there in the real life... V.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Spott
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 07:40, Julien Pierru wrote: Teotihuacan pyramid complex: http://flamebunny.homelinux.net/pics/fgfs/Teotihuacan.jpg (20m NE of Mexico City MMMX on heading 045); Nice, but we clearly see a nasty scenery bug there --- there is no river

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Mittwoch, 22. März 2006 14:07 schrieb Martin Spott: Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 07:40, Julien Pierru wrote: Teotihuacan pyramid complex: http://flamebunny.homelinux.net/pics/fgfs/Teotihuacan.jpg (20m NE of Mexico City MMMX on heading 045); Nice, but we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Probably there even is a river in real life, but it doesn't have a default width of 50m. I have seen many rivers in the FG scenery that are 4-10m wide in real life. I walked all around the place on foot (in real life, that is), and there are no rivers there... V

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Hmm, according to this, there is a canal that carries the San Juan river there. http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/images/teotihuacan.jpg Strange... maybe it was not with water when I was walking there? According to the pictures, it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread polly
Well, the NASA pic is over thirty years old .. wasn't the canals drying up what nailed the civilization in the first place ?? There seems to be a surfeit of water in many places, there are some floating buildings in Boston harbour, perhaps FG is looking ahead thirty years and trying to tell

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: We should be happy that reality has always some surprise for us from time to time :-) Someone complained about the pylons running along next to the bridge across the bay on approach to KSFO. It seemed odd to me too, but I checked anyway and...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Spott
Julien Pierru wrote: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=3D19.693701,-98.845561spn=3D0.016544,0.0217= 15t=3Dkhl=3Den In order to make this URL work you have to remove every occurrence of 3D and remove the = before the line break as well:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Mittwoch 22 März 2006 18:55 schrieb Julien Pierru: well there is definitely a canal down there, not sure if it is dried up or not: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=19.693701,-98.845561spn=0.016544,0.021715t =khl=en Julien P.S:that thred definitely generated some interests, though not the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Julien Pierru
Thank you Thomas ;)From the google map, for those of you who managed to see it, you can see with the larger zoom that either side of the canal the ground is green, that means that the canal still contains flowing water. However it is true that is width might not be larger than 2-4 m. I guess the

[Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-21 Thread Julien Pierru
I just started working on this, I decided to model as much of the ancient buildings lying around the Earth.Here are the first few ones:Giza pyramids: http://flamebunny.homelinux.net/pics/fgfs/Great_Pyramids.jpgTeotihuacan pyramid complex: http://flamebunny.homelinux.net/pics/fgfs/Teotihuacan.jpg