Alex Perry writes: > > * Alex Perry -- Thursday 10 October 2002 20:10: > > > Why can't we stick it into the scenery directories, but one directory > > > up from the tiles, so we have one file per 10degx10deg of planet. > > > That should ensure that FGFS doesn't need to load all that many files, > > > and just having the one file in the base package will allow initial use. > > > > But then you couldn't teleport to arbitrary airports, n'est ce que pas? > > Oh, sorry, let me elaborate ... > > 1. I'm assuming we keep the airport database (but maybe omit runways > etc)
Then someone will want to teleport to a specific runway at a specific airport. :-) > 2. Given an airport ID, FGFS must priority load the relevant file above > 3. The remaining files (between zero and about 300) are defer loaded > 4. When the scenery loader thread has no tiles to do, it does one file > 5. Thus, we can put huge amounts of information into each airport record I think it's reasonable to consider saving the same data in more than one form in order to suit different needs of different sections of the code. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
