Re: Cloud Issues

Scott Giese <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:24:47 -0500
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I'm good for now, Stuart.  Thanks.

On 7/30/26 4:02 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Apologies - I hadn't realized that bugs were causing you such problems.
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 3:06 PM Scott Giese wrote:
>
>     Stuart,
>
>     We need a way to disable 3D Clouds, please.  There at 3 bugs that
>     I have
>     encountered, the worst of them is in the dtor and is preventing
>     FlightGear from shutting down.  Killing the process leaks memory, so
>     every so often I find the need to reboot my machine.
>
>
> I'll take a look at that as a priority.  However, modern OSes really 
> shouldn't leak memory
> when killing processes.  I thought we left that sort of behaviour back 
> in the 1990s.
>
>     You don't seem to be working on clouds at the moment, so can you make
>     the voxel clouds feature a compile option on 'next'?
>
>
> I'm still very much working on the clouds.  I've just been on vacation 
> for the last couple of weeks.
>
> I think you've already got a patch to disable them, but let me know if 
> you need me to do more here.
>
>     Sorry for the hassle.  I'm usually very patient with buggy code,
>     but a
>     few of these are really getting in the way.
>
>     Bugs I have encountered:
>
>     FGCloud dtor() hangs on the join() call.  This prevents shutdown.
>     Log flood of "Unable to find voxel-texture for..."
>     Missing Effects/cloud-static.eff... no, I'm not using ALS.
>
>
> These last two are most likely because you're using Local Weather, 
> which isn't integrated yet.
> If you use "Basic Weather" from the weather dialog they should disappear.
>
> I'll downgrade the "Unable to find voxel-texture" log, as it's not useful.
>
> -Stuart
>
>
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    <p>I'm good for now, Stuart.  Thanks.</p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/30/26 4:02 PM, Stuart Buchanan
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          <div>Hi Scott,</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Apologies - I hadn't realized that bugs were causing you
            such problems.</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
        </div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at
            3:06 PM Scott Giese wrote:<br>
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          <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Stuart,<br>
            <br>
            We need a way to disable 3D Clouds, please.  There at 3 bugs
            that I have <br>
            encountered, the worst of them is in the dtor and is
            preventing <br>
            FlightGear from shutting down.  Killing the process leaks
            memory, so <br>
            every so often I find the need to reboot my machine.<br>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>I'll take a look at that as a priority.  However, modern
            OSes really shouldn't leak memory</div>
          <div>when killing processes.  I thought we left that sort of
            behaviour back in the 1990s.</div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
            You don't seem to be working on clouds at the moment, so can
            you make <br>
            the voxel clouds feature a compile option on 'next'?<br>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>I'm still very much working on the clouds.  I've just
            been on vacation for the last couple of weeks.</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>I think you've already got a patch to disable them, but
            let me know if you need me to do more here.</div>
          <div> </div>
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style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
            Sorry for the hassle.  I'm usually very patient with buggy
            code, but a <br>
            few of these are really getting in the way.<br>
            <br>
            Bugs I have encountered:<br>
            <br>
            FGCloud dtor() hangs on the join() call.  This prevents
            shutdown.<br>
            Log flood of "Unable to find voxel-texture for..."<br>
            Missing Effects/cloud-static.eff... no, I'm not using ALS.<br>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>These last two are most likely because you're using Local
            Weather, which isn't integrated yet.  </div>
          <div>If you use "Basic Weather" from the weather dialog they
            should disappear.</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>I'll downgrade the "Unable to find voxel-texture" log, as
            it's not useful.</div>
          <br>
        </div>
        <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">-Stuart</div>
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