omega95 wrote in Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:58 pm:But yes, the canvas system should be VERY useful there, and looking at the TONU display, I was thinking if the canvas system could 'project' a 3D object into 2D view (so as to create the globe)
I see, but no: it's currently not yet possible directly - but it could probably be added as a special mode to the canvas system, where you specify a 3D model, a view port and some transformations (i.e. via properties).
Being able to load and view/transform a 3D object would be useful for a number of things - such as aircraft previews, like the aircraft preview in fgrun. So maybe Tom is open to the idea, you better bring that up in the canvas sub forum.
Probably, 3D objects are going to be increasingly important in upcoming avionics to improve situational and spatial awareness, so preparing the canvas system for such features would probably be useful, otherwise we would need to use complicated workarounds to create vector graphics from 3D objects ...