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D3D9Client custom flat files

daves-ssu opened this issue · comments

I have decided to give the D3D9Client flt files a go by making the Cape Canaveral a more bit accurate. In doing this, I have discovered a bit of a short coming with the system and that is that you have pretty much guess things like center points as well as the latitude and longitude as well as the inclination.

A better implementation would be to replace this by a series of coordinates that outline a bounding box. This would remove the guessing pretty much altogether as well as allowing for a much more accurate shaping. A good example of this would the KSC Launch Complex 39 Turn Basin (the large pond area southwest of the VAB/LCC). It doesn't really have an easy shape to work with, especially with the current REC implementation. This new system would allow for shaping the bounding box to the actual you want it to be.