Ocean Improvement Program for FlightGear
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Anders Gidenstam 2007 - 2010
News
* 2010-06-14: The add-on is also available as a branch in my clone of
fgdata at gitorious:
http://gitorious.org/~andersg/fg/anders-fgdata/commits/ocean-add-on-public
To merge it with your local everyday fgdata branch use
git pull git://gitorious.org/~andersg/fg/anders-fgdata.git ocean-add-on-public
* 2009-12-05: Updated to work with current FlightGear/CVS.
* 2008-01-10: Tested and works fine with FlightGear/OSG (and 1.0.0 too).
* 2007-10-20: And done..
* 2007-06-19: Current version is broken due to a renamed function in geo.nas.
I'll fix this ASAP.
* 2007-05-20: New screenshots: Enroute from ENSA to ENSB.
http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/.images/Arctic/fgfs-screen-104.jpg
http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/.images/Arctic/fgfs-screen-105.jpg
* 2007-05-18: Improved the icebergs enabled predicate: Now the iceberg area
is a union of circular subareas. Presently these include
the Arctic, Greenland and Antarctica.
* 2007-05-17: First release. Adds icebergs north of lat 58N.
http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/.images/fgfs-screen-078.jpg
http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/.images/fgfs-screen-079.jpg
(I know, the iceberg model is ugly.. ;)
The current criteria for selecting where icebergs are visible
is too simplistic and needs to be improved.
(There shouldn't be huge icebergs in the Baltic sea for example.)
Install
1. Extract the archive in $FGROOT/.
It will add one Nasal module, ocean.nas, in Nasal/ and
some new iceberg models under Models/Ocean.
2. Apply materials.diff to $FGROOT/materials.xml. Alternatively,
add the following to your $FGROOT/materials.xml in the params section and
in the material for Ocean:
150005000000OceanTerrain/water.rgb400400
3. Optional: Update your preferences.xml to include the following:
true
4. Have fun!
Sea cows and other interesting objects might be added in the future.
Cheers,
Anders