Grayham Smith wrote:
Hi all,
I am running FG on Windows XP and the package is running without errors.
1/ In the Airport selection menu there are some 57 US Airports to choose from.
The documentation suggests there should be over 2000 airports to select from.
How does one access these other airports?
Hi Grayham,
As Innis suggested, once you install the scenery for the entire world, you will have all 20,000+ airports available in the selection list. Be warned though that the launcher needs to scan your entire scenery tree first, which can take a *long* time if you have all 12Gb of scenery data installed.
Fred is pondering/working on a more optimal solution for the next release. There are a number of good ideas he can try so I'm sure he'll come up with something that works quite well. :-)
2/ I have the three DVD's containing worldwide scenery.
The documentation describes what to do with the scenery files up to a point.
e.g. unzip the files "e000n20.tar.gz" into the terrain directory.
The documentation is essentially correct, but it was written before we created a nice little scenery installer util. This is included with the windows package and can be found in the FlightGear section of your "Start" menu.
Put in a DVD, run the scenery installer util, and you can select which areas you want to install from the DVD and intall them. Again, this is a *lot* of data so it will take some time to install everything.
Alternatively, you could run something like "winzip" and just extract the .tgz files into
C:\Program Files\FlightGear\scenery
That accomplishes the *exact* same thing as running the scenery installer.
This intern creates
a directory called e000n20 which contains many directories like
e000n20,,,21,,,22,,,23,,,24. These directories each contain files like 2956160.btg.gz
and 2956160.stg. This creates a directory structure and file of:- E:\flightgear\data\scenery\terrain\e000n20\e000n20\2956160.btg.gz
Is this correct?
do I need to unzip the resulting ".btg.gz" files as they contain a ".btg" file?
do I need to do anything with the ".stg" files?
FlightGear can decompress the .btg.gz files on the fly so you can leave them compressed and save a bit of room on your HD. So, once you've uncompressed the 10x10 chunk into the correct scenery directory, you don't need to do anything further.
Regards,
Curt.
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