On Tuesday 23 March 2004 09:20, Erik Hofman wrote:
> Lee Elliott wrote:
> > The obvious, to me at least, way ahead will be for each aircraft to have
> > it's own custom panels and sound effects, and to this end I just bundled
> > everything that was used by the a/c into the directory until I could
> > improve it.  The down-side is that while the a/c is still being
> > developed, as it obviously still is, there will be a degree of duplicated
> > data.
>
> I don't want to step on anyones toes here, and I do want to express that
>   in general I really like your aircraft, but I also agree with Melchior
> here.
>
> I've been trying to get the download size of the base package decreased
> wherever possible (removing alpha layers from textures that don't use
> them for example, although this also saves texture memory on the video
> card). And the way your aircraft are bundled right now isn't very
> effective with regards to base package size.
>
> I have been using ISDN to download the base package for a long time and
> every Mb download size takes another 2 minutes of *payed* telephone
> costs (even 3 minutes for analog modem users). We can't seriously expect
> every one on the world to do that because you feel like it.
>
> I'm not going to say this has to be changed for the upcoming release,
> but try to keep that in mind for the next updates.
>
> Erik

I'll start hosting them on a web-site.  Once I've got that organised, of 
before if you wish, the a/c I've done can be removed from the cvs base 
package.

LeeE

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