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Some high-quality third-party scenery has also been released for FlightGear. However, because anyone may contribute models or terrain data to the official FlightGear scenery, third-party scenery add-ons are not as common as in other flight simulator projects.
Some high-quality third-party scenery has also been released for FlightGear. However, because anyone may contribute models or terrain data to the official FlightGear scenery, third-party scenery add-ons are not as common as in other flight simulator projects.
== Status ==
By the end of this year (2015), the FlightGear Project's hosting for the [http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/ scenemodels] database and website and the [[TerraSync]] repository will no longer be available. As a result, the FlightGear Project is searching for a replacement, even just a temporary one. The technical requirements are roughly these:
* A [http://www.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL] database (with the [http://postgis.net/ PostGIS] extension) of approximately 40 GB, with capacity to expand (this is for the scenemodels database).
* An Apache webserver, PHP, access to the database and the usual toolkit for hosting the scenemodels website
* An SVN server with 140+ GB for the TerraSync repository.
* Enough bandwith to serve the data.
* One or more reverse proxies serving TerraSync requests (not much storage required, just bandwidth).
If you can provide the above, are able to provide help, or have any serious ideas for a replacement, please get in touch via the [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=263629#p263629 forum topic] or the [http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/34605975/ mailing list topic]
— ''{{cite web
|url    = http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=263629#p263629
|title  = Scenemodels and terrasync are going down
|author = Torsten
|date  = Nov 9th, 2015
}}''
{{FGCquote
|1= Sadly, our scenery generation process is in a state of transition right now, so it's not easy/quick (possible?) to do a full world rebuild to reflect an updated apt.dat file.
|2= {{cite web
  | url    = http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/34679413/
  | title  = <nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] New apt.dat on the X-Plane Scenery Gateway</nowiki>
  | author = <nowiki>Curtis Olson</nowiki>
  | date  = Dec 8th, 2015
  | added  = Dec 8th, 2015
  | script_version = 0.23
  }}
}}
{{FGCquote
|1= Martin, our scenery builder and infrastructure provider for many years has decided to leave the project, there will be no new scenery release for a while.
|2= {{cite web
  | url    = http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/34679633/
  | title  = <nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] New apt.dat on the X-Plane Scenery Gateway</nowiki>
  | author = <nowiki>Torsten Dreyer</nowiki>
  | date  = Dec 8th, 2015
  | added  = Dec 8th, 2015
  | script_version = 0.23
  }}
}}


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Revision as of 19:00, 8 December 2015

The Isère region in France.
Scenery tiles

Scenery is the landscape in FlightGear (or any other simulator). The "mint" or unchanged just-downloaded FlightGear comes with 2 square degrees of scenery near San Francisco, California. The rest of the world is available via download. Details and accuracy vary from place to place.

The scenery data is released as World Scenery collections, available through download in 10x10 degree chunks from the the FlightGear website. Please note that the packages there are only updated very infrequently, so instead you can use TerraSync to download up-to-date scenery as you fly by.

Some high-quality third-party scenery has also been released for FlightGear. However, because anyone may contribute models or terrain data to the official FlightGear scenery, third-party scenery add-ons are not as common as in other flight simulator projects.

Status

By the end of this year (2015), the FlightGear Project's hosting for the scenemodels database and website and the TerraSync repository will no longer be available. As a result, the FlightGear Project is searching for a replacement, even just a temporary one. The technical requirements are roughly these:

  • A PostgreSQL database (with the PostGIS extension) of approximately 40 GB, with capacity to expand (this is for the scenemodels database).
  • An Apache webserver, PHP, access to the database and the usual toolkit for hosting the scenemodels website
  • An SVN server with 140+ GB for the TerraSync repository.
  • Enough bandwith to serve the data.
  • One or more reverse proxies serving TerraSync requests (not much storage required, just bandwidth).

If you can provide the above, are able to provide help, or have any serious ideas for a replacement, please get in touch via the forum topic or the mailing list topic

— Torsten (Nov 9th, 2015). Scenemodels and terrasync are going down.

Cquote1.png Sadly, our scenery generation process is in a state of transition right now, so it's not easy/quick (possible?) to do a full world rebuild to reflect an updated apt.dat file.
 Cquote2.png
Cquote1.png Martin, our scenery builder and infrastructure provider for many years has decided to leave the project, there will be no new scenery release for a while.
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Related content

FlightGear logo.png The FlightGear wiki has a
portal related to scenery development

Recommended Scenery

Scenery Projects

External links

TerraGear
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