Re: Cloud Issues
Scott Giese <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:24:47 -0500
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============8964618861708966373== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------TEnEuOFPdfIH4d0srmTljQjm" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------TEnEuOFPdfIH4d0srmTljQjm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel --------------TEnEuOFPdfIH4d0srmTljQjm Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>I'm good for now, Stuart. Thanks.</p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/30/26 4:02 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAP3ntysb43g0Aa6QGgaXRk7xZ9hSgkcUTLgPcuxL5YhA4-BChw@mail.gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"> <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> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 3:06 PM Scott Giese wrote:<br> </div> <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> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" 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> </div> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">_______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------TEnEuOFPdfIH4d0srmTljQjm-- --===============8964618861708966373== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --===============8964618861708966373== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel --===============8964618861708966373==--