> -----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 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
