Pete Morgan wrote:
> Indeed I have submitted my first TaxiDraw to Robin Peel, and wishing to
> move onto scenery next which is a grey area atmo (more later).
You should also submit to Martin Spott as he's keeping a track of airport
layouts as well.
> Quick question? how many users have been "kicked off the FG network" cos
> they didnt have a licence ?
Not quite sure I understand the question. Do you mean "how many users have been
kicked off for not flying/acting correctly?" - None.
However, reading further down, I think you're concerned about the effects of
letting
lots of children loose in the MP Environment. If you are particularly concerned,
you could always run your own MP server.
> As I'm on Ubuntu/Debian/Apt and one thought that keeps recusing, thought
> that keep, thought is a central debian packages for scenery. Indeed
> also for nav.dat/apt.dat etc.
I'm not sure what this would provide beyond what we already have with TerraSync
?
> However the "scenery" goes to FG_ROOT in fact it should be split imho to
> (Because its a sudo or a patented.m$.runas ie it DONT need root.. ie I
> can ad to scenary and override..)..
> * FG_AIRCRAFT
> * and FG_SCENERY
> * and FG_DATA
I'm now very confused - we already have an FG_SCENERY defined for picking
up scenery from another location. OR you can pass in a --fg-scenery argument.
It's all in the manual.
> What we all want it a simple click of a button to "pull" and update the
> data.
>
> I understand that this can be pulled live ? however that sucks
> bandwidth. and its not gonna be cached which means cash for ISP.
Yes, that's TerraSync. However, if you're putting together your own LiveCDs
there's no reason not to include a significant chunk of scenery (e.g. the whole
of the UK) on them. Admittedly you won't pick up new improvements to the
scenery, but it should at least get you the scenery you want.
> It would be possible to create a scenario with say 10 laptops/PC's all
> boot from FlightGear.Live CD. One machine would nominally be a server,
> ie maybe a direct internet connection, whilst all the others would be local.
If you've got a local scenery server and a local network connection, you could
have all the scenery on the server and use it as a filer, exporting the scenery
directiry. You'd then NFS mount the scenery directory onto each of the clients
and set FG_SCENERY to the mount. Performance might be a bit of an issue, but
shouldn't be too bad.
> These are some thoughts. At least when the clouds are 3D then we can fly
> through them; and being child like, they like to fly in formation and
> play with each other. Which is why I kinda need the local CD than can
> run down the street.. for fun.
It's a fine idea. FG LiveCDs are a very neat way to get someone just to give FG
a try.
> maybe it's a silly idea mad idea, but I err towards having some
> distributed system, and that goes with the multiplayer. Ie not overload
> the real one. Vatsim and IVAO are examples of that, although unfamiliar.
It sounds a very interesting project.
-Stuart
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