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As of 05/2012, FlightGear supports a new "random buildings" feature, buildings are generated at runtime and placed in Urban and Town areas. In v2.8.0 these take up a lot of memory, but in subsequent releases this has been improved significantly. | As of 05/2012, FlightGear supports a new "random buildings" feature, buildings are generated at runtime and placed in Urban and Town areas. In v2.8.0 these take up a lot of memory, but in subsequent releases this has been improved significantly. | ||
Building generation is configurable through materials.xml, and documented in | Building generation is configurable through materials.xml, and documented in {{readme file|materials}}. It is designed to be flexible enough that we can have different types of cities in Europe compared with the USA, or Africa. The current texture used for the buildings is a proof of concept, and we are looking for people with artistic abilities to contribute improved textures. If anyone is interested in creating a better texture, please get in touch with [[User:Stuart]] on the mailing list or forums. | ||
At a functional level, there are three different size of buildings (small, medium, large), with slightly different constraints (small and | At a functional level, there are three different size of buildings (small, medium, large), with slightly different constraints (small and | ||
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statement that checks /position/latitude-deg and /position/longitude-deg | statement that checks /position/latitude-deg and /position/longitude-deg | ||
The new lightmap texture parameter is called <building-lightmap>) but the rest of the parameters are documented in | The new lightmap texture parameter is called <building-lightmap>) but the rest of the parameters are documented in {{readme file|materials}} if you want to have a play. | ||
if you want to have a play. | |||
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* http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17598&p=166686#p166686 | * http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17598&p=166686#p166686 | ||
* http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg37003.html | * http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg37003.html | ||
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* | * {{readme file|materials}} | ||
* [[AutoGen Scenery for FlightGear]] | * [[AutoGen Scenery for FlightGear]] | ||
* http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=flightgear-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net&q=random+buildings&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 | * http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=flightgear-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net&q=random+buildings&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 | ||