Re: [Flightgear-devel] teaser ...

[John T. <ndc...@mx...>]

Curtis L. Olson wrote:

> Here's a teaser screen grab from something I was toying with last
> week.  Scenery is based on an ortho-rectified aerial photo(s?) of the
> San Jose airport (KSJC).
> 
>     http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/tmp/fgfs-screen-002.jpg
> 
> I whipped up a little utility that would chop up the image (16000 x
> 8000 pixels) into something more manageable and inserted a simple
> square grid into the terrain to lay the textures (128 256x256
> textures) onto.
> 
> This requires a few fgfs mods to make work so I really can't release
> the scenery until I get cvs up and running again, hopefully early next
> week.

Does this mean we can put big pictures in Scenery/ directory and some 
files will
let us specify how we chop those big pictures to smaller textures? And 
in object files,
we can surface those smaller textures as usual?

> 
> 
> At full resolution, this image yields 128 1024x1024 textures which
> chokes a 64Mb GeForce Ultra2 card, but the same card seemed to handle
> things ok if I cut the textures down to 256x256.
> 
> Neat stuff, but it leaves you wanting so much more, and in the end I'm
> even more convinced that polygon based scenery is really what we want
> for most things.

Isn't our terrain scenery using polygons right now? Do you mean we want 
3d objects to
be objects instead of flat textures?

John Tsao

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