Hi Andrew,
"Jones, Andrew" wrote:
> I was thinking of doing some 3D objects for Australia (to start the
> learning process) and then move on to terrain scenery - will new
> terrain 'ruin' the 3D object that I will have already placed on the
> original terrain?
It depends .... :-)
Usually the terrain looks a bit different with every (World) Scenery
build. Thus, many, many of the locations where people have been placing
3D models will be at a different elevation with the next build - most
notably at rough terrain.
In order to compensate this effect for the World Scenery releases,
we're re-positioning _every_ object in our Scenemodels repository to
the ground elevation with the new terrain before we're going to pack
everything together.
> I think having an Oz 'chapter' would be a great idea, maybe Jon and
> Martin could give us our own bit of their web for dedicated Oz
> scenery (or we could just prefix all generic 3D objects with OZ- )
Well, our plan looks a bit different. The explicit idea is _not_ to
divide our world into different chapters, at least not when it comes to
provinding Scenery to the user. Instead, we'd like to encourage people
to collaborate on _one_ set which is meant to cover the entire world,
thus saving the user from the hassle to download Scenery for different
areas from different download locations.
This approach actually enables us to provide nifty services like a) the
global overview over the buildings which are already available for
FlightGear (I admit that our website layout at 'Scenemodels' deserves
an update ;-) , b) the land cover web mapping service on our
'MapServer' site, including the red dots for every placement of a 3D
model (deserves an update as well ....), c) adjusting all of the
available models to the current terrain and, last but not least, d)
feeding the most current World Scenery (Terrain as well as Objects plus
some airport data and the shared models) to the user as they fly, via
the TerraSync tool.
This should certainly not prevent you from organizing and grouping
contributors together, but the "net result" is, to my opinion, by far
best stored at and distributed via the existing infrastructure
(database, web service and TerraSync-repository).
For the generic 3D models which you know are very specific to your
country, feel free to add a reasonable prefix to the respective
filenames if you think it's worth it.
Cheers,
Martin.
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