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Using the Canvas system for adding geo-referenced textures to the terrain mesh has actually a plethora of potential applications and use-cases in FlightGear, but as of mid 2016, it's inspired by a revamped interest in coming up with texture-based landclass representations: | |||
The idea is that we move away from vectorized landclasses and encode the information on landclasses in a raster-image (i.e. a meta-texture). This has a couple of advantages: | The idea is that we move away from vectorized landclasses and encode the information on landclasses in a raster-image (i.e. a meta-texture). This has a couple of advantages: | ||