Hi, The default version in fgfsbase just has a piece of land around San Francisco. I do not know if you just used Yast to get FlightGear or if you rebuilt it yourself. Personnally, I prefer to rebuild verything ftom plib to SimGear and FlightGear. So I can stay up to date and also I use from time to time the CVS versions. I would just like to remind that the server fgfs.hfrl.umn.edu is unavailable and Curt is working on it. Just a remark, I have at home 8 CDs concerning the landscape of the entire planet Earth except Africa and I feel that downloading all these w110n30-like files is a nightmare with my modem. My provider has a bad habit of cutting me off every 25 minutes during daytime and I do not know on Linux how I can force wdial to re-start automatically and restart ftp where it died.In order to do not overload Curt's server, please remember to use reget instead of get when the Internet provider cut you off. I think that I am not alone to have these kinds of problems. Personnally, I am in the process to rebuild all my scenery myself. I already succeeded in rebuilding my own airport region scenery and now I am downloading all the DEM 3' data from the USGS. I started last Saturday, and I am at the letter M for the cities for which I got the DEM files. What I would suggest is the following: (i) In the TerraGear project give a mirror image of the DEM files which are needed (bz2 could further reduce their size). (ii) Sell one DVD where all the basic data, DEM files, GSHHS files, roads and so on is centralised in one place. Advanced users could then recrank their scenery themselves. (iii) Sell two DVD's containing all the w110n30-like files of the planet Earth. The problem is that at the present stage, this data is highly perishable, since, we can now, to some extent, add railways, rivers and roads to the Scenery. Also, some people made (SJC) some Scenery files comming from Aerial photographs. It is the reason which I favour more the option (ii). Also, personnally, I am NOT a developper of FlightGear even if I know it well enough the system that I can hack it. I would really appreciate if there would be a TerraGear User mailing list related to users. Also, it would be a good idea to simplify the fgfs-tools-server and fgfs-tools-client routines. They are not designed exactly for the mainstream user. The motivation of this tool is to parallelise the construction of Scenery on 10 different client machines. This is not the most common user's configuration. Downloading my 8 CD's from Curt's site took me a while and as well I do have an upward compatibility with my CD's I have no plan to do this again. The server fgfs.hfrl.umn.edu was restricting severely the number of users that could log in at the same time and very often when I got kicked off, I had to way the next day before resuming my download. Is it possible to ask Red Hat, Suse or others to sell DVD's concerning all the TerraGear stuff. Maybe I am creazy, I think that when my download from the USGS will be over, I will be independant when updating my scenery, and I will just have to download the latest C++ code from TerraGear and crank it. Also, you should compress the landscape using bzip2 -9. It makes files 20% smaller. In some cases, it could save someone from re downloading the entire file after being kicked off after 93% completion. Many people do not know what is the command reget! This would ease on the FlightGear server. I will probably some new messages concerning this topic when I will be more advanced on my my cranking. JJ Malosse > ---------- > From: Thomas Buervenich[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Flightgear-users] question concerning new scenery > > > Hello, > > I am new to FlightGear but like it alot. I have it > installed with SUSE7.2 Linux. I donwloaded some new > scenery files and installed them into /usr/lib/Flightgear/Scenery, > /usr/lib/Flightgear is the root of Flightgear, runfgfs > is in /usr/lib. > I start with --airport-id and --heading and put in the > values from the places to fly page - but always start > in water. > What is going wrong? > Thanks for your help! > Thomas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
