11-08-2006, 05:38 AM
Consider this: if you want a FA to serve the passengers, then you also need to visually simulate the passengers. So now, instead of the
plane model and the FA model, you have between 2 and 500 individual pax models on board! I'd say that would kill your frame rates! Of
course, depending on the level of detail. You could end up with something that looks like the people in Airport Tycoon (the first one).
Blockheads like in the "Money For Nothing" video.
Also, the config file would grow out of control as you would need stations for each pax on the plane. I think the first step would be to get
an animated co-pilot in there, then we can worry about the pax as that would simply be multiplication.
Yeah, multiplication. 
plane model and the FA model, you have between 2 and 500 individual pax models on board! I'd say that would kill your frame rates! Of
course, depending on the level of detail. You could end up with something that looks like the people in Airport Tycoon (the first one).
Blockheads like in the "Money For Nothing" video.

Also, the config file would grow out of control as you would need stations for each pax on the plane. I think the first step would be to get
an animated co-pilot in there, then we can worry about the pax as that would simply be multiplication.

