✔️ FIXED BUG: Traffic Too Dense

[Krishty]

The dummy air traffic in Red Sea is nice for testing, but way too dense for a release. The number of planes should be reduced drastically. Furthermore, the beginning of the route should be moved farther away from the spawn point so we see planes in both direction.

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[Krishty]

I tried spreading the traffic, but this yields to pseudo-random crashes.

It seems like

1. Sometimes a tile creates contrails for its planes even though the plane already has contrails. There must be an odd problem at play, like planes moving from visible tiles to non-visible tiles and not properly releasing their contrail emitters.
    
2. Sometimes a tile the goes out of visible range deletes contrails for its planes even though these have been deleted before.

I assume both problems are related, but they will take a while to fix.

[Krishty]

This is escalating. Whenever I fix a bug, another one pops up. Much of the affected code is from 2012, designed for rendering landscape instead of doing flight simulation.

I wanted to throw it away for a long time, but I try to delay it until after we have stable version to release. Unfortunately, I don’t know if this can be done or if the whole thing has just collapsed over my head …

[mikew]

If this was Discord, I might consider posting that 'hugging' emoji, but it's a proper forum, so none of that nonsense.

Not much I can say, except maybe TFXplorer is trying to to do too much as one program.

[Krishty]

Crashes fixed, I guess … the next version comes with traffic spread out over 10 routes instead of crammed into one. The routes are arbitrary for now; I should look up real air traffic routes over that region some time.

[Krishty]

Fix has landed.

[Krishty]

Part of the fix is still missing due to … some merge glitch, I guess? Will be fixed in the next version.

[Krishty]

Fix has landed.