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== New software tools and projects == | == New software tools and projects == | ||
'''osm2city.py''' | |||
Dresden, Germany ([http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18851 EDDC]) and Innsbruck, Austria ([http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19625 LOWI]) have recently been populated with about 50,000 buildings derived from openstreetmap data. The buildings are textured with hi-res facade and roof images. While this certainly improves [http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1985/fgfsscreen015.jpg visual] impression over the current random buildings, rendering a huge number of individual models in a scene is quite demanding. The FG process eats ~3GB RAM when flying in those areas, you might see a severe fps hit, and the download is ~50 MB each. However, the buildings respect LOD settings, and there's work underway to also reduce the memory footprint. | |||
The conversion is done by [https://gitorious.org/fg-radi/osm2city osm2city.py], currently being developed by forum user radi. The approach is similar to [[OpenStreetMap_buildings#Tools|bob.pl]] or forum user Soitanen's scripts, (or osm2xp for X-Plane), both of which have been [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17598 discussed] in the forums. Being at a rather early stage of development, osm2city.py is currently not very user-friendly. You probably should know some python if you want to use it yourself. | |||
If you want to help out anyway: take pictures of buildings where you live! Radi is especially interested in south-east asian style architecture, as he's planning to populate Hong Kong Kai Tak (VHXX) in the future. But any other areas are welcome, too. There's a howto on taking pictures ready for texture extraction. | |||
== FlightGear addons and mods == | == FlightGear addons and mods == | ||