Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather scenarios - add ICAO standard

[Emilian H. <emi...@gm...>]

On Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:46:14 EEST James Turner wrote:

> I typically see 6-8 aircraft per screen and they nearly all have a useful
> thumbnail which really helps I agree. The aircraft I have from manual
> downloads with a rather useless ‘logo’ thumbnail are definitely more
> awkward to deal with. This definitely does highlight to me the important of
> picking good thumbnails for aircraft since as you observed, it’s the best
> visual cue.

If I may intervene with the experience on the other side: 
Another cross platform flightsim uses a preset scene to render the aircraft 
icon/thumbnail (they have a dedicated menu entry  to update the icons, which 
switches the simulator to the preset scene and takes a screenshot with alpha 
around the aircraft shape. This is done either by the developer at publish 
time or by the user at any time for the aircraft they have installed on their 
system)
The result is a very consistent appearance of the aircraft selection screen, 
and also the icons/thumbnails contain only relevant information (the aircraft 
shape/livery) making them easy to pick out visually.

Regards,
Emilian