Re: [Flightgear-devel] If everybody had an ocean...

[Arnt K. <ar...@c2...>]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:38:03 -0400, David Megginson
<da...@me...> wrote in
<152...@me...>:

> Norman Vine writes:
> 
>  > Just walk the road and create the triangles from the vertices.
> 
> That would work in a 2D world, but not in a 3D one.  TerraGear adds

..as in; build the world, then paint it?

> nodes from the DEM before building triangles; otherwise, roads would
> not follow the slope of the terrain.

..sometimes the roads do _not_ follow these slopes;
here in Norway, most roads are raised 3-10 ft above 
the terrain to cut down on snow drifts build-up.
 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> 
> David
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