TerraSync is now useful again. If you are net connected while flying, you can use it to fetch scenery from any where (just in time). This way you don't have to download huge chunks of scenery data, or endure vast expanses of ocean where you know there should be land and airports. Just go fly, and let terrasync download just the scenery you need, as you need it.
- I have placed the entire world scenery tree, unrolled at scenery.flightgear.org::scenery-0.9.2 - I have updated some of the default options for terrasync as well as it's readme. Here's a quick summary of how to use it: 1. Start FlightGear with the following options (modified for your local installation paths): $ fgfs --atlas=socket,out,1,localhost,5500,udp --fg-scenery=/usr/local/FlightGear/data/Scenery:/data1/scenery-0.9.2 Note: feel free to use a differnt port number other than 5500, but make sure you specify the same port for both FlightGear and TerraSync. Feel free to put this options in your ~/.fgfsrc (or system.fgfsrc) so you don't need to type them every time. Notice that the --fg-scenery= option can take a set of scenery search paths. 2. Start terrasync (included with the FlightGear source tree) with something like the following options: $ nice terrasync -p 5500 -d /data1/scenery-0.9.2 Notice that port 5500 needs to match the port that FlightGear is sending positional information out to. And the destination scenery directory has to match one of the directories that FlightGear is looking at. Spyware??? By the nature of how terrasync works (and the fact that the server logs transfers.) I can tell which 1x1 degree chunks of the world that people have been flying through. I don't think that is a bad thing necessarily (just wait till we start doing a lot of multiplayer stuff and are broadcasting our exact coordinates to some remote server.) :-) If a lot of people use this "free service" it would actually be interesting to post summaries or rankings of the most popular scenery areas or scenery corridors. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
