Re: Reducing airports polygon count

Erik Hofman wrote:

> Dale E. Edmons wrote:
>
>> Erik Hofman wrote:
>
>
>>> I was just thinking, haw about projecting the airport layout onto 4 
>>> (1024x1024) textures and project those textures on a very reduced 
>>> airport terrain?
>>>
>> How does this compare to how it is currently being done?  I have to 
>
>
> This is a screenshot that displays a simple airport as it is being 
> generated by genapts:
>
> http://fgsd.sourceforge.net/images/LFPX-photo-scenery.png
>
Not exactly.  That's a mapping of Fred's code after reading in an 
airport generated by genapts.  ;)  My first export routine was made by 
modifing FGSD.  Eventually, it will be my prefered utility, but I've 
also now gotten TerraGear modified to do nearly the same thing via 
command line.

> For more complex airports more polygons are being created to map the 
> threshold, runway numbers (two quads at every side), runway markings, 
> etc.
>
> Erik
>


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