* Edward R. Rubinsy -- Thursday 31 March 2005 05:00: > I've tried downloading scenery files from > ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/flightgear/ftp/Scenery-0.9.8/ and > un-taring them into /usr/local/share/FlightGear-0.9.8/data/Scenery. I've > added --fg-root=/usr/local/share/FlightGear-0.9.8 to ~/.fgfsrc and > specifying it on the command line. I've also done the same with > --fg-scenery. But no matter what I try, setting my location to an > airport outside of the SFO area either gives me a beautiful blue sea,
If one of the paths specified in $FG_SCENERY/--fg-scenery (or the default: $FG_ROOT/Scenery/) contains a subdir "Terrain" and/or "Objects", then scenery is only accepted if it is *in* one of these subdirs. So all you have to do is move the downloaded scenery from /usr/local/share/FlightGear-0.9.8/data/Scenery/ into /usr/local/share/FlightGear-0.9.8/data/Scenery/Terrain/. This, however, would mean to mix default scenery with custom scenery, which I'd try to avoid. Better put the scenery anywhere else and add the path to FG_SCENERY: export FG_SCENERY=/self/downloaded/Scenery:$FG_ROOT/Scenery (In your private scenery dir you have again the choice to extract the scenery archives at top level *or* in a "Terrain" subdir. The latter is preferable, because you can then also download nice objects from http://fgfsdb.stockill.org/ and put this into an "Objects" subdir. Again: clean separation. :-) Hope this wasn't too confusing. m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
