> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis L.
> Olson
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:38 PM
> To: FlightGear developers discussions
> Subject: Re: RFD: Landmarks and scenery (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ
> and CNTower)
> 
> 
> David Megginson writes:
> > Lee Elliott writes:
> > 
> >  > Perhaps we need a directory in Scenery that can be scanned for
> >  > world landmarks like this.  Could the model and location data be
> >  > defined in an xml file?  Would it be possible to animate them?
> >  > (thinking rotating restaurants and swing bridges here).
> > 
> > I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think that the best
> > approach would be to read scenery from multiple directories at once.
> > For example, I could have the main scenery under
> > /usr/local/FlightGear/Scenery/, and major landmarks under
> > /usr/local/FlightGear/Landmarks/, and configure it something like
> > this:
> > 
> >   FG_SCENERY_PATH=/usr/local/FlightGear/Scenery/:/usr/local/FlightGear/Landmarks/
> 
> David,
> 
> The ":" path separate character might be hard to make unambiguos on
> the windows platform.  But it is the standard under unix.
> 
> Would anyone be opposed to using the ";" character as a path separator
> since these paths could show up in universeral config files.

I am wondering what having multiple paths to search will do for 'stutter'

and as far as LandMarks go I can't really see why they don't just go in the 
standard scenery file as since they are LandMarks they probably only
apply to one location :-)

Norman

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