Re: RFC: Taxiway/Apron heuristics

Jon Stockill writes:

> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, David Luff wrote:
> 
> > download by anyone building their own scenery, and Curt could grab the file
> > when regenerating and build these airports *after* building the Peel
> > dataset.  With suitable TerraGear support it could be used as a testbed for
> 
> Does this work? When you generate the airports it generates the terrain
> holes fot them to go in too - if you overwrite the airport then then
> airport object is fine, but what happens to the hole polygon? Presumably
> as long as the new airport is bigger than the old one there won't be any
> problem, but in the case where a runway is repositioned I can see this
> causing problems.
>

I think it works.  I've generated the default airports before, built some scenery, then regenerated just one or two changed airports, and a further rebuild has come out fine.

I'm assuming that a sequence of 

generate default (Peel) airports
generate non-default (TaxiDraw-edited) airports
generate scenery

would work just fine.

> I'm happy to add all the airfields I've done so far to such a list though
> (I think you've got a copy already, although I don't know how up to date
> it is).
> 

Thanks.  I certainly haven't got them all, but if/when I put a file up I'll give you a shout.

Cheers - Dave

...who's just run apt-get upgrade and now FlightGear drops into software rendering and locks the mouse and keyboard solid about 10secs after starting :-(