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FlightGear Scenery Designer ( aka fgsd ) is a tool to design and create custom-made scenery tiles suitable to FlightGear. | FlightGear Scenery Designer ( aka fgsd ) is a tool to design and create custom-made scenery tiles suitable to FlightGear. It performs a similar function to [[TerraGear]], but in a different way. TerraGear is intended for batch processing of large numbers of files, and thus is used to produce the global scenery distributed with [[FlightGear]] and via [[TerraSync]]; fgsd is intended more for small-scale fine-tuning of a few tiles through a graphical interface. | ||
== Philosophy == | == Documentation == | ||
Documentation on fgsd is thin and hard to find. Besides this wiki page, you may want to read the following: | |||
* [[Howto: Make an airport]] | |||
* The [http://fgsd.sourceforge.net/doc.html documentation page] of the [fgsd http://fgsd.sourceforge.net/ Sourceforge] website. | |||
* A four-part video tutorial/demonstration | |||
* The FlightGear Forum, in the scenery section. This seems to be the most current information, but information can be hard to find. | |||
== History and Philosophy == | |||
''How fgsd works and what are the ideas that drive its design'' | ''How fgsd works and what are the ideas that drive its design'' | ||
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additionally, 3D object models can be placed here and there to add verticality to this somewhat horizontal world. | additionally, 3D object models can be placed here and there to add verticality to this somewhat horizontal world. | ||
One side | One side benefit of this approach is that modified land cover contours can be exported to a format that TerraGear can use. A centralized database of contours is setup for that ( see http://www.custom-scenery.org ). This way collaborative changes to the global scenery can be consolidated and the next round of global scenery generation will include submitted individual changes. | ||
Of course, import from the landcover database is possible in fgsd. | Of course, import from the landcover database is possible in fgsd. | ||