I've thought previously[
1] that Flightgear may benefit from a recent gallery page
Right now it displays 1 random screenshot at top with no way to see all. Existing gallery is old, v2.10. Reasons: Acting as cue to what is possible as features are off by default and some settings are hidden away somewhat. A gallery declares what FG can look like upfront on high settings. It can avoid misconceptions from what I've seen [
2] [
3]. Useful for: news websites, reviewers, simmers not thinking FG is a new project from looking at old screens, people wanting an idea of what FG looks like before committing to download/setup/learn a sim.
AFAICS A gallery should ideally be for a specific performance & hardware category - 1080p, 20-30 FPS reasonable at certain settings on hardware exceeding Y specs. This way simmers know what to expect on their systems. Typical commercial product galleries may only feature screens on extremely fast, uncommon, systems. For example: High settings FG gallery would be almost certain[
4] to be lower than: 7500 GPU rating [
5], 4 core i5 2500 or faster, 8-12(?) GB RAM at default LoD, 7200RPM HDD(?or SSD?). Settings: everything maxed except for: trees: very high (maybe fine for ultra?), Transparency AA: Multi-sampling, AA: 4x, Multi-frame AA optimisation: not needed.
I have had a very limited amount of time using FG in last year - just a few flights to test some old 2018.3 nightlies. Screens should look roughly the same currently. Sorry as some craft have been updated since & there seem to be lots of new OSM2City I have not looked at (some craft in albums are not in launcher yet):
https://imgur.com/a/oMSLfLhPre-2018.3:
https://imgur.com/a/xkMtthJhttps://imgur.com/a/8NVfAXzhttps://imgur.com/a/a8Y2LKzhttps://imgur.com/a/Z4xdz2020+
https://imgur.com/a/E1a45YlEdit: update links
I can contribute these to start a max-ish settings gallery off, but there are quite a few in monthly screenshot competition I think. Not certain when I'll fly much in 2019.1 or later. But I'll try to add to album when I do.
If updating a gallery is time consuming for the website maintainers maybe updates could be automated somehow(?). Screens and text descriptions could(?) be automatically moved from a wiki page periodically (security or spam issue? trusted people could move screens from a submissions page to a locked wiki page).
I apologise if this has been discussed previously.
Kind regards