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

[James T. <ja...@fl...>]

> On 19 Apr 2018, at 17:12, Emilian Huminiuc <emi...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> 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.

That would be an excellent thing to script if someone could contrive it, yes!

James