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=== Project Rembrandt === | === Project Rembrandt === | ||
The night vision effect, as well as the cinema effects, are now available for 2.8 users. See | The night vision effect, as well as the cinema effects, are now available for 2.8 users. See {{forum link|t=17602|text=here}} for the download links, details and feedback. | ||
=== Canvas System === | === Canvas System === | ||
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As a first proof of concept, Stuart has added a Canvas-based map to the airport selection dialog, and Hooray has demonstrated that the same technique could be used to add a map widget to the route manager dialog - so that airport selection and route planning could become more intuitive using the [[Canvas]] system. A first stab at an MVC-oriented design to create map layers has now been committed to the base package, documented at [[Canvas Map API]] - this will soon be re-worked to add support for additional dialogs and instruments. | As a first proof of concept, Stuart has added a Canvas-based map to the airport selection dialog, and Hooray has demonstrated that the same technique could be used to add a map widget to the route manager dialog - so that airport selection and route planning could become more intuitive using the [[Canvas]] system. A first stab at an MVC-oriented design to create map layers has now been committed to the base package, documented at [[Canvas Map API]] - this will soon be re-worked to add support for additional dialogs and instruments. | ||
For additional info, please see: | For additional info, please see: {{forum link|t=17625}}. | ||
In addition, ShivaVG (the vector drawing engine behind canvas) has been extended to support some kind of a non-zero fill rule. It's not really non-zero because instead of incrementing and decrementing depending on the orientation of the drawn overlapping regions it simply checks if at least a single region covers a pixel. For our use cases it | In addition, ShivaVG (the vector drawing engine behind canvas) has been extended to support some kind of a non-zero fill rule. It's not really non-zero because instead of incrementing and decrementing depending on the orientation of the drawn overlapping regions it simply checks if at least a single region covers a pixel. For our use cases it | ||
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For ideas on starting to contribute to FlightGear, you may want to check out: [[Volunteer]]. | For ideas on starting to contribute to FlightGear, you may want to check out: [[Volunteer]]. | ||
To learn more about how the project works, please see | To learn more about how the project works, please see {{forum link|p=149971|text=this short essay}} written by Thorsten. | ||
=== Call for volunteers === | === Call for volunteers === | ||