[Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading
There were already few discussions about this a couple of months ago when terrasync was launched. My question is when I run terrasync and fgfs and fly where there's no terrain available yet, do I need to restart fgfs session for the new terrain to take effect, or are fgfs and terrasync already synchronized now and is the new terrain showing up as soon as it becomes available? - Matevz ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading
Matevz Jekovec wrote: There were already few discussions about this a couple of months ago when terrasync was launched. My question is when I run terrasync and fgfs and fly where there's no terrain available yet, do I need to restart fgfs session for the new terrain to take effect, or are fgfs and terrasync already synchronized now and is the new terrain showing up as soon as it becomes available? I don't think the current code allows for the latter, so you still need to exit FlightGear first. Erik -- Searching for a 60 to 100 passenger Jetliner? http://www.rekkof.nl/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Matevz Jekovec -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:29: My question is when I run terrasync and fgfs and fly where there's no terrain available yet, do I need to restart fgfs session for the new terrain to take effect, or are fgfs and terrasync already synchronized now and is the new terrain showing up as soon as it becomes available? The scenery for your start airport is certainly fetched and stored, but not updated in fgfs. Only scenery that is yet to be loaded will appear updated. You don't need to restart fgfs, though. Teleporting to KSFO and back should be enough. I'm confident that this will be fixed one day. :-) Just a thought : on windows, there is a system call that enable a program to receive events when a files in a subtree changes. I don't know for Linux and other unix though. I already heard about something called FAM but I don't know if it is built in the kernel now. And I have no idea about the MAC situation. This could allow automatic scenery update while running and avoid to have ocean tiles when we travel too rapidly. -Fred ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading
Just a thought : on windows, there is a system call that enable a program to receive events when a files in a subtree changes. I don't know for Linux and other unix though. I already heard about something called FAM but I don't know if it is built in the kernel now. And I have no idea about the MAC situation. This could allow automatic scenery update while running and avoid to have ocean tiles when we travel too rapidly. -Fred Yes, there is FAM (File Alteration Monitor) on Linux, but it's not part of the kernel but a separate daemon (famd), so we can't really rely much on that. I don't know if there's another way, but I'm pretty sure there should be. - Matevz ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading
Matevz Jekovec wrote: Just a thought : on windows, there is a system call that enable a program to receive events when a files in a subtree changes. I don't know for Linux and other unix though. I already heard about something called FAM but I don't know if it is built in the kernel now. And I have no idea about the MAC situation. This could allow automatic scenery update while running and avoid to have ocean tiles when we travel too rapidly. -Fred Yes, there is FAM (File Alteration Monitor) on Linux, but it's not part of the kernel but a separate daemon (famd), so we can't really rely much on that. I don't know if there's another way, but I'm pretty sure there should be. I suppose terrasync itself could send a signal to FG. But FG should then track some sort of file modification date for each tile and also FG would need some additional logic to be able to reload tiles that have updated data. Not terribly hard, but it would take a bit of patient thought and careful work to make sure nothing is overlooked and no new bugs are introduced. Terrasync started out as a one-evening hack/demonstration so it was never intended to be a full fledged solution and cover every angle and possibility. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading
Terrasync started out as a one-evening hack/demonstration so it was never intended to be a full fledged solution and cover every angle and possibility. Yeah, but found itself a very useful tool among fgfs users. Maybe even a start of multiplayer gaming, which includes terrain downloading from the computer hosting the game. - Matevz ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
