Erik Hofman wrote: > Paul Surgeon wrote: > >> Since it's in the default San Francisco area you can submit it to Erik >> or Curt or you could sumbit it to the FlightGear scenery database. >> http://fgfsdb.stockill.org/ >> >> I'm just not sure if Curt will include objects from the FG scenery db >> into the default scenery area. Curt what's the plan with regards to >> models and the next scenery build? > > > I would like to see all new scenery object contributions to end up in > the scenery database. However, the last time I wanted to sync the base > package and the DB there were more than one objects in the same space > because of automatic object generation. > > Once that's sorted out I want to sync the base package and the DB prior > to a new release. > > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d >
I was thinking at some point that there should be a system by which FG could figure this out automatically. If every automatically generated object had a unique ID this could be possible. An object loaded from a path listed earlier in $FG_SCENERY (and therefore probably not from the base scenery) that has the same ID could prevent the original object from being loaded. The main drawback I see is that once the ID numbers of the automatically generated objects are assigned they have to be persistent. I don't know it it's possible to do this between releases. Just to clarify, by automatically generated objects, I mean the ones that are automatically generated from other data sources by Curt's scripts. Additionally you could just not allow two objects at the exact same lat/lon. Assuming that the lat/lons in the source data never change that could serve as the unique ID. This would require some additional rules for stacking objects on top of each other. e.g. I have a somewhat generic water tower at KADW with a generic military beacon sitting on top of it. They should definitely be separate objects, but both have the same lat/lon. Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d