Am Dienstag 31 Mai 2005 19:52 schrieb JB: >... I've download > the latest version and having been having a ball with it, but I've run > into some problems. Specifically scenery related. I've downloaded > scenery for Indianapolis and was trying to fly out of Indianapolis Int'l > (KIND), but when FG loads it put's me in the middle of what looks like, > an ocean. I checked the apt.dat.gz file and KIND is indeed listed, so > why does it put me in the middle of nowhere?
Where exactly did you unpack the scenery tar.gz? Usually the Scenery directory in $FG_ROOT contains the subdirs Terrain and Objects. You have to unpack into the Terrain directory for things to work correctly. An even better approach is to install the Scenery elsewhere (e.g. /usr/local/FGScenery) and set the configuration options in ~/.fgfsrc accordingly. Putting a "--fg-scenery=/usr/local/FGScenery" line in it should suffice. That way you don't mix the standard FGFS data with the additional sceneries. > BTW: Regarding the apt.dat file; FAQ's and other docs list the format > differently than what is in it. By that I mean, R, A and other record > identifiers listed in the docs are not present in the current file. Did > the format change and the docs not catch up with it? Exactly. With v0.9.8 FG switched to the format that X-Plane uses which saves conversion, as the X-Plane data was used anyway. The file format is documented at http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/FileDef.htm > Do I have to rebuild the downloaded scenery file to make it mesh with > the apt.dat file? If so, how do you do that? The docs are somewhat > vague in that area. You shouldn't have to. Rebuilding scenery tiles is a slow and tedious process. Cheers Thomas _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
