I was not very happy with the size of the halo, so
I created a new animation to control it. Now we can
control the scale value with the distance from the
viewer to the object. The towers are now beginning to
look good. They might need some tuning though. If
you want to play, locate in radio-*.xml this code :
<animation>
<type>dist-scale</type>
<object-name>RedLight.2</object-name>
<interpolation>
<entry><ind>0</ind><dep>0.1</dep></entry>
<entry><ind>500</ind><dep>0.3</dep></entry>
<entry><ind>16000</ind><dep>3</dep></entry>
</interpolation>
</animation>
You get the idea ? ind is the distance, dep is the
resulting scale value.
The medium tower appears brighter than the tall one,
because the lights are closer to each other. Maybe
they need a smaller scale factor at distance. Feel
free to modify these values if you find a better
setup.
About the code : I renamed flash to custtrans because the
ssg branch is now less specialized. It needs a callback
to compute the so called 'custom transformation'. It can
be used for the SGFlashAnimation and the new
SGDistScaleAnimation. So please cvs remove flash.[ch]xx and
add custtrans.[ch]xx. I also undo some of the code I send
you yesterday that was totally useless. It is replaced by
something simpler and that works.
There is also a patch to matmodel.cxx. This is not related
and was something I forgot. Its purpose is to set the
alpha test on material billboard models that are likely to
be trees to lessen a transparency weird effect with clouds.
I modified the included animation.cxx to have a randomly displaced
time origin, to break the unison. And the flashing period is also
random as you noticed. I also put all the flashing light of the pole
in the same animation so they flash in the same rhythm.
Fix a memory leak, and brownian animation, if not motion.
I have 2 new files : personality.[ch]xx . They store the personality
data that would be deleted when the object is destroyed, instead
of staying in the animation maps. I also manage the current animation
step better and the towers are not flashing randomly now.
Makefile.am is updated.
modellib.cxx :
Add a branch between the model and its transformation to add
a unique identifier for the model. I called it "personality
branch" and it maintains a "current_object" in SGAnimation.
Animations specifically written to support it ( currently only
the timed animation ) can add a degree of variety among the
occurrences of the same model that would look otherwise cloned.
flash.[ch]xx :
Better compute the view vector. The flash is now syncronized with
its axis even at the edge of the screen.
animation.[ch]xx :
Lots of changes :
- add a condition to 'rotate', 'spin', 'translate' and 'range'.
When a condition is specified *and* it evaluates to false, the
animation becomes a no-op. Possible usage : no rotation during
daylight, LOD range variable along the day, ...
- use different durations for each branch in the timed animation.
Enable the use of multiple <branch-duration-sec>, one for each
<object-name> specified. Usage : strobes with flash light.
- allow randomization of the <branch-duration-sec>, by using
<random><min>_min_value_</min><max>_max_value_</max></random>.
The value computed once is between _min_value_ and _max_value_.
- implement model personality in timed animation. If
<use-personality type="bool">true</use-personality> is specified,
a different set of duration is created for every model in the
scenegraph using this animation. Best if used with randomization.
When using strobes where the population of the same object is
dense, it avoids the "cheasy" clone effect.
this patch introduce a new kind of animation and ssg branch.
I called them flash animation, because they help me to
enhance the look of the rotating beacon and possible future
lighthouse. It computes the cosine of the angle between an
arbitrary axis, transformed by the current modelview matrix,
and the view direction. No trig involved, just a dot/scalar
product.
The computed value can be modified by three parameters,
power, factor and offset, according to the formulae :
value = factor * pow( cosine, power ) + offset.
It is clamped between a minimum and a maximum.
This value is then used as the scale factor of a matrix
transformation applied to the children of the SGFlash
branch.
The xml syntax, with default values, is :
<animation>
<type>flash</type>
<object-name>HaloObject</object-name>
<center>
<x-m>0</x-m>
<y-m>0</y-m>
<z-m>0</z-m>
</center>
<axis>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<z>1</z>
</axis>
<power>1</power>
<factor>1</factor>
<offset>0</offset>
<min>0</min>
<max>1</max>
<two-sides>false</two-sides>
</animation>
a MinGW target:
Link against alut.dll in addition to openal32.dll.
Remove some preprocessor defines from compiler.h that were
confusing the mingw and/or libstdc++ headers (I put the _isnan
one back in the only file it was used).
Hack a broken sleep() call into the OpenAL sample programs so
that they will compile (but not work) in a non-POSIX environment.
Change the header file ordering in sample_openal.hxx to get
around some really weird interactions between MinGW's windows.h
and the gcc iostream header.
This allows us to "place" cockpit sounds. For example, we can make left
engine sound come out of the left speaker, right engine out the right
speaker, etc.
sound manager. The interface was simplified and cleaned up a bit, and I
haven't back ported these changes to the plib sound wrappers ... we could
I suppose if someone really had a problem, but I haven't seen anything so
far that would indicate the extra effort is worth it.
gcc 3.4 has changed the rules for unqualified template name lookup. This
affects SGQueue.hxx. The changes I've made are backwards compatible with
earlier gcc versions. Everything else compiles pretty much okay except for a
few warnings. The resultant executable seems a bit faster too.
This is a new patch that allow to define a different
texture for top and bottom of clouds. It uses the
overcast_top.rgb you made for me last time.
What the patch do is to install a ssgStateSelector
instead of a ssgSimpleState for each layer.
The SGCloudLayer::draw method is modified to accept
a boolean that will select the proper state: 0/false
for bottom, 1/true for top.
Then, in SGSky::drawUpperClouds and SGSky::drawLowerClouds,
SGCloudLayer::draw is called with false and true because
we see the bottom of upper clouds and the top of
lower clouds.
Only overcast has 2 textures, the other types share the
same state for top and bottom, but that could be modified
in SGCloudLayer::rebuild.
put all leaf is a seperated branch so that it is
possible to use a pretrav callback to cull out
terrain without culling out light or dynamic
objects. It appears that plib is not calling the
pretrav callback for leaves.
add an optional parameter that would be called to
build the aircraft panel, so that flightgear's
model_panel no longer duplicate code.
add a pretrav callback to models so that we can
filter out models when calling ssgCullAndDraw on
the global scene.
sgSetModelFilter( true ) means that we want to draw
the models. Use false to cull them out.
popped off the stack in a situation where it could be garbage
collected. I believe this is the source of the spurious "non-object
have no members" bug that has been reported.
