Re: flapping sea plane

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Jean-Francois Richard (jfr++at++cae.ca)
Mon, 14 Nov 94 18:03:19 EST


On Mon Nov 14, 3:00pm, Harry van Stedum wrote:

> I'd like to have a textured sea-plane in a scenery; instead of the
> non-textured static Performer Ground plane, part of the pfESky model, with
> Multigen, a large plane is put in the XY-plane, with a texture mapped;
> the plane is 40 * 40 kilometers.
>
> The problem is that while sailing in the scenery, the plane seems to move
> up and down slightly (a few pixels), quickly and irregularly.
> (kind of flapping up and down).
>

Unfortunately, I don't have a solution for Harry's problem, but I
seem to be getting a similar problem with the Hunter-Liggett Flight
database that came with the Performer 1.2 CD.

In my case, the whole database (including the ocean) seems to be
"flapping" up and down as I am flying over it (it would make a lovely
effect of flying over a desert on a very hot day, if that was what I
was looking for -- I'll have to figure out a way of reproducing this
on request some day).

It looks like all polygon vertices are moving between each frame, every
time the viewpoint changes. Could Harry and I be making a mistake in our
Performer set-up that would cause the graphics pipeline to experience
precision problems?

Does anybody see what could be causing this?

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J.F. Richard,
CAE Electronics Ltd,
Montreal, Canada

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