#Add scenery to flightgear Patch#
#Add scenery to flightgear code#
#Add scenery to flightgear free#

What we do not have however is the information whether a particular patch of taxiway is where the tires roll or not - so we can't place wear marks on taxiways, the apron. Within the limits of the skid mark shader, we can also place them centered. Using texture compositing, we can put oil puddles, or cracks, or whatever you want on the runway. The actual problem is telling a shader what a particular pixel of runway is. I don't see how the problem would be there. Note that the Canvas system already supports scenery placements, and the photo-scenery patches support geographic placements - so it would be a matter of integrating those existing features Thorsten Posts: 12480 Joined: Mon 9:33 am That's pretty much how this works - you won't get a ready-made shiny planet from the development community, but you will get the tools from us to get the job done if you invest the work. You're not already maintaining and developing a weather system, a rendering framework and a Space Shuttle, so you might actually have not only the motivation but also the time to do it. All you need to do is to figure out how the regional definitions are assigned, and then you can use these tools. You're interested in this, you're motivated. Instead, I see my the role as giving you the tools to do it yourself. It wouldn't also make me happy, because right now I'm working on the math of Space Shuttle abort procedure guidance - which is an interesting problem for me. Not very efficient, because, see, I'm not particularly good at making textures. But say I do it for airports in Finland, then perhaps someone from Taiwan will ask 'why not Taiwan'? Then I do it for Taiwan, and so on, and then I end up creating airport textures. I'm not particularly good at making textures, so it'd sure take lots of my time. Now, of course I could add different textures to some airports.

#Add scenery to flightgear code#

Since there is no market, there's no one who can pay anyone to 'just' code feature XY - we all (mostly) get to work on what we (aka the developers) find interesting. One of the things here is that our precious resource is manpower. Which are that trying to apply the logic of commercial projects to FG is bound to fail because it works differently. I'm not angry at all - I'm just trying to explain the facts to you.

#Add scenery to flightgear free#

So, please feel free to file a feature request at: Note that joining Canvas-based draping with effects/shaders could be very much empowering for people interested in all kinds of scenery work, including detailed road/railway networks. Note that the Canvas system already supports scenery placements, and the photo-scenery patches support geographic placements - so it would be a matter of integrating those existing features: įor some Canvas related background info, see. In addition, the TerraGear folks (mainly psadro_gm), but also some FlightGear core developers (James & Stuart) have been contemplating to add support for scenery draping. The idea isn't too bad actually - and it's not the first time this is brought up.įor example, we've had a number of discussions about supporting dynamic runway skid marks - basically custom texture overlays using lat/lon-based quads.