Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect mapping

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

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:55:38 -0600, Curtis wrote in message 
<AAN...@ma...>:

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:09 AM, syd adams wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys , I've been experimenting with the reflection effect ...
> > I don't know who originally added them , but could someone with
> > write access set the Aircraft/Generic/Effects/CubeMaps' textures to
> > correct texture sizes so Flightgear doesn't have to rescale them
> > every load ?
> >
> 
> Hi Syd,
> 
> I haven't seen that anyone has bit on your request.  I agree there
> are a lot of weird texture sizes in there (256x257, etc.)
> 
> If you wanted to resize them, I would be willing to commit them to the
> repository.  Then we are each only partially responsible if they get
> screwed up and we can blame the other guy. :-)
> 
> Is there an alpha layer to these textures (I'm guessing not) ... if
> there is no alpha layer, then resizing them should be pretty
> straightforward ... but I hesitate because I don't know if they are
> carefully designed to mesh together and if resizing them could screw
> that up?  On the other hand, if OSG is resizing them on the fly, then
> it's probably using a really dumb algorithm, so we should be ok.  I
> almost (but not quite) talked myself into just doing it all
> myself. :-)  I'll still commit them if someone else wants to resize
> them.

..that probably means first do a full git checkout so I can 
build FG-git/FG-2.2 and use it to test my resizing stunts 
and check out that FG-2.0 bug I found, how much disk space 
do I need now? 

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