Paul Surgeon wrote:
> On Friday 23 December 2005 13:17, Martin Spott wrote:
>> The procedure of including a ".btg"-file into the standard scenery is a
>> no-op, so if you like to distribute your work then I'd suggest to
>> simply put ir onto a web page, make a small description and write a
>> short announcement to this or the "-users" list.
> This is a real pity.
> It means that if people model an area nicely and new users come along they
> won't know about it since they may never even subscribe the the mailing lists
> let alone happen to be around then the announcement is made.
Well, nobody prevents you from carrying ".btg"-files to any user who
does _not_ ask for it ....
FlightGear developers do a pretty good job at offering a portable,
OpenSource flight simulator to everyone who's interested, but the
minimum of what I (I don't count me as a FG developer) expect from a
user is to spend a minimum of effort simply by reading the relevant
publications.
> This is why other flight simulators do so well - they include a lot "in the
> box" without the need to hunt all over the web for addons that you don't even
> know exist.
Do you call downloading this chunk from here, another chunk from there
and the third chunk from somwhere else as "in the box" ? This is
reality I've observed at a couple of MSFS users' sites.
> How popular would the San Francisco scenery be if all it contained was the
> default generated airports and terrain?
You should have read my posting: I said that ".btg"-files are not
supposed to make it into the standard scenery. Do you find any ".btg"-
files in the Objects-section of the scenery ? I don't. These are
Terrain files and the terrain of SFO area actually _is_ the default
terrain. The contributor is heartily invited to share the scenery
objects with us and we'll make sure they'll get it into the next
scenery if we'll recieve these files soon. But this does not count for
terrain files.
> If we can do it for San Francisco then surely we can do it for other areas
> too?
> If not then why not?
Because you didn't read the whole posting.
Cheers,
Martin.
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