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=== TerraSync === | |||
TerraSync is a utility that automatically downloads needed FlightGear scenery while the simulator is running. | |||
It is recommended to use a separate scenery directory for TerraSync (that is do not run it on your main scenery directory). | |||
Usage example (for POSIX compliant command shell): | |||
(NOTE: read '_' as whitespace) | |||
Start terrasync: | |||
<code>% nice terrasync -p 5500 -d /tmp/fgfsScenery</code> | |||
Start FlightGear: | |||
<code>% fgfs --atlas=socket,out,1,localhost,5500,udp --fg-scenery=$FG_ROOT/Scenery/:/tmp/fgfsScenery</code> | |||
The full documentation and source for TerraSync is located in the FlighGear source distribution (in <code>utils/TerraSync/</code>). | |||
TODO: More info |
Revision as of 10:21, 31 May 2006
Terrain
You can download Terrain from the FlightGear site : http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/scenery-0.9.10.html
TODO : Install Help - fgadmin?
Objects
Objects and models can be found at the FlightGear Scenery Database
TODO : Where do I put these?
Technical
Scenery for FlightGear is determined by looking at the environment variable $FG_SCENERY. Should the paths in $FG_SCENERY not be valid, FlightGear falls back to $FG_ROOT/scenery.
Mixing scenery types is almost universally a bad idea, and is unsupported. In this connection you should note that the scenery packaged with the base package/windows installer may not be the latest scenery.
For this reason it's probably better to extract scenery files you've downloaded into a new folder, which we'll call, for the sake of this exercise, $FOOBAR/Scenery In this directory, create two subdirectories . /Objects and /Terrain. You should untar individual files into the /Terrain folder.
Then you should set up $FG_SCENERY to use the new path: On POSIX Clients set FG_SCENERY="$FOOBAR/Scenery" + FG_SCENERY On Windows (fgrun) Go back to the first page of fgrun, and add the $FOOBAR/Scenery folder to the list.
TerraSync
TerraSync is a utility that automatically downloads needed FlightGear scenery while the simulator is running.
It is recommended to use a separate scenery directory for TerraSync (that is do not run it on your main scenery directory).
Usage example (for POSIX compliant command shell): (NOTE: read '_' as whitespace)
Start terrasync:
% nice terrasync -p 5500 -d /tmp/fgfsScenery
Start FlightGear:
% fgfs --atlas=socket,out,1,localhost,5500,udp --fg-scenery=$FG_ROOT/Scenery/:/tmp/fgfsScenery
The full documentation and source for TerraSync is located in the FlighGear source distribution (in utils/TerraSync/
).
TODO: More info