Comments on: Limits On Texture Paging

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:51:00 +0000

Dan31, anything that can be in an overlay (3d objects, roads, facades, forests) can be in a base mesh too. So you’d put your 3-d objects into your DSF with your base mesh.

By: Dan31

Dan31 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:37:00 +0000

“While paging will be available for both overlays (using .pol files) and base meshes (using .ter files) I strongly, strongly recommend going the base-mesh .ter route.”
OK but how could we had 3D objet without overlays ?

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:12:00 +0000

Squash – a plugin can spawn a thread, but all of the XPLM routines must be called on the main thread, from your callbacks…the XPLM is essentially an arbitration system between plugins and the sim – and it is single-threaded. So the sim needs to solve its own threading problems before it even talks to the XPLM (which in turn talks to plugins).

By: Squash

Squash — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:47:00 +0000

“But datarefs can come from plugins that are not threaded!”

– There shouldn’t be any problem spawning a thread from a plugin though, right?

By: Peter Meininger

Peter Meininger — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:48:00 +0000

(Consider the piles and piles of bugs and weird behaviors that you get when combining OBJ animation with OBJ hard surfaces.)

You mean I could build a obj format animated lightning that'll give you a jolt you when you happen to be in the wrong place?

cool....ROFL