Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-0.9.11-pre1-------Carriers are Flying

[Richard B. <Ric...@be...>]

> Martin Spott wrote:
> > "gh.robin" wrote:
> >=20
> >> With FlightGear-0.9.11-pre1  it is something strange =20
> >>         we have Flying Carriers.
> >=20
> > The carrier is correct - sea level is wrong  :-))
>=20
> Wait for the tide to come in.
>=20
> Jon
>=20
I presume this is to do with the fact that the sea is modelled as a few
huge flat polys whose surfaces have a significant "altitude" change
between the centres and the vertices.=20

AFAIK this has not changed since the very early days of FG, but since we
now all have graphics cards that are 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than
when FG started, is now the time to increase the number of polys in the
ocean? A reduction in the edge length of a factor of 3 would reduce the
surface height variation by a factor of ~3, and increase the poly count
in the ocean by a factor of 9, which I believe should be acceptable.

Unfortunately, I have no idea where so start poking around in the
codebase to do this though.

Richard