Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 2017.1.1 released!

[Thorsten R. <tho...@sc...>]

> Hi Thorsten.

Please note that Torsten Dreyer (note the lack of 'h') and Thorsten Renk  
(me, note the presence of the 'h') are two different persons, and the  
person who should be applauded for doing all the behind the scene work for  
the release is Torsten Dreyer, not me.


> The new version of FlightGear has stimulated me to test. As always.
> Osm2city is not what I know. Please compare my YouTube video with the
> realization in FlightGear 2017.

I guess it's pretty much a no-brainer that small custom patches of scenery  
are always going to look better than solutions which are aimed to scale  
all over the planet in terms of storage needs, manpower required and  
automatic distribution to ~250.000 users.

See also Torsten's recent concern about requiring 2.600 GB of disk space  
even with the current solution scaled to the whole planet.

Making something work in one place for you is easy. Making it work  
everywhere automatically for everyone no matter the system specs is quite  
a lot more involved.

> Without a heavy loss of performance my computer.

Note though that there's people with all kinds of systems (even very old  
ones, integrated graphics chipsets,...) using FG, so it's never a good  
idea that what works for you ought to be default.

> Nice buildings and at night streets shine. Cars drive on the
> streets. Check them out.

Since I am not aware of any merge requests with regard to driving car  
shaders, I'm going to assume that whoever created them is not interested  
or not ready yet to ship them - so maybe you should talk to that person.

When we have uv-mapped roads in the scenery, I plan on writing some of my  
own, but I think that'll be some time off.

* Thorsten