Curtis Olson wrote: > On 5/22/07, *Nathaniel Homier* wrote: > > FlightGear uses 90m SRTM data and I assume this is the 3-arcsec SRTM > data. I would like to have the whole world at 1-arcsec SRTM. I tried > to build terragear but the wiki and GPC.README are a bit out of date and > the docs suggest it would take forever to build the world scenery on > anything less than a large cluster. I was hoping that maybe someone > else already did the work for the entire world and has it up some where > for download or for sale on DVD. > > It would be awesome if http://cdrom.flightgear.org/ offered a no holds > barred DVD of the scenery for those with the computing power and who > don't want have to figure out Terragear and spends weeks building the > whole planet not to mention windows users. > > > There are a couple things I can say in reply here. First the 3 arcsec > data is *huge* and in and of itself will overwhelm your system's ability > to draw all that data. We simplify the data ... probably 1000x to make > it renderable. The 1 arcsec data is nice, but again, in order to make > it workable within FlightGear, we would have to simplify it down to > about the resolution we currently have, so the net gain would be > minimal, even if you started with the higher res data set. > > The current scenery requires 3 DVD's. A no holds barred DVD (singular) > would have to be lower res than what we have now. If we increase the > resolution substantial, then maybe we are talking about a 6 or 20 DVD > set. That would be very costly and time consuming to produce and > distribute! > > As computers get faster and capacities increase, we will definitely > increase the resolution and accuracy of the scenery, but I feel that the > current scenery set strikes a pretty good balance between detail, render > speed and size manageabilty. > > But I do se habla dinero if offered in sufficient quantities. :-) :-) :-) > > Curt.
Oh, okay thanks for the answer. I had no Idea about the true resolution of the source data. I have the 7 DVD set for X-Plane and while it does look nice I still find myself preferring Flightgears scenery, dunno why just do. Maybe if I win one of those Taco Bell contest for a million peso! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
