David,
One additional thing that would be very nice to support is the ability
to have at least one additional directory level for grouping aircraft:
Aircraft
-> Small-Single-Engine
-> WWII
-> WWI
-> Modern-Jet-Fighters
-> Commercial-Jets
-> Bi-Planes
-> Sea-Planes
-> R/C Planes
-> etc.
And then have the individual aircraft directory inside of the group
directory. Otherwise it's going to be a big mess (like it is now)
when you start having more than 10-20 aircraft. This also makes
finding a particular aircraft more convenient becuase you don't have
to traverse obscenly large lists.
Regards,
Curt.
David Megginson writes:
> Jim Wilson writes:
>
> > We certainly need to decide on which ones to include. It would
> > seem that 10 or so aircraft and a total base package size of 50mb
> > compressed (150-200mb uncompressed) would be reasonable. For CVS
> > users having the models in a separate tree so they can be download
> > selectively makes sense. BTW the AC3D files, compress 90% or more.
>
> Agreed. In fact, I think that we should package *all* of the models
> individually but then preinstall a few of them in the base package,
> just as we do with the scenery.
>
> So how does this look?
>
> Aircraft/<type>/config.xml
> Aircraft/<type>/info.xml
> Aircraft/<type>/picture.jpg
> Aircraft/<type>/Documentation/
> Aircraft/<type>/Model/
> Aircraft/<type>/Panel/
> Aircraft/<type>/Physics/
> Aircraft/<type>/Sound/
> Aircraft/<type>/Systems/
>
> config.xml would include properties to be placed in the main property
> tree, while info.xml would contain properties exclusively for sorting
> and selecting aircraft (such as a description, manufacturer, etc.),
> and an optional reference to an image (like 'picture.jpg') that could
> be displayed in a selection box. Documentation/ would contain
> human-readable documentation, Model/ would contain the 3D model
> including animations, Panel/ would include a 2D panel (if
> appropriate), Physics/ would include all of the aero files for
> different FDMs, Sound/ would include sound samples for the aircraft
> and the sound config file, and Systems/ would include special config
> files for systems like the electrical system, autopilot, or FMS.
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
> David
>
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