Hi, I have started work (about 9 months ago) on New Zealand scenery. I started around my home airport of NZWN and have got static and AI models from the generics' available and while finishing NZWN and environs off hav also started NZCH. I don't have a FTP site available but am more than happy to provide the updates if contacted directly. I hope to have the static model updates loaded into Jon Stockills FGFSDB in the next month. There is no repository for AI model scenarios yet.
If you want to check out the results before you buy at my bargain basement prices ;-) screenshots are at; http://fgfswellingtonnz.blogspot.com/ These sorts of results can be obtained using; FGFS, browser and a text editor, although it can be made easier by using Georg's most excellent FGTools. I am also working with a modeller to get models of the terminal buildings and a few unique landmark buildings modelled. Cheers :-D ene David Baron wrote: > I am new to the list, love the program. The scenery is spectacular, quite > realistic at a distance or altitude. Superb. > > Where to go? Visuals are the main thing. No blind pilots (I hope). > > Cities: > San Francisco--this is where Flightgear leaves its heart. This scenery is > very > very well developed, realistic, landmarks are there, the way it should be. > New York--a mess (someone from 'Frisco would always say that!). NO landmarks, > the bridges are missing, only generic buildings, many misplaced, growing out > of the river. One wants to see at least a hint of the skyline approaching a > city. New York is a big dissappointment here.Tell me how I could contribute > to this? > Boston--OK. Only generics but the pattern looks Boston. > Chicago--OK. The once-highest prudential seems dwarfed among all the generics > but at least this building of unique design is there. (I remember the > original Msoft simulator--only this building but one knew one was in > Chicago!) > Israeli cities -- I live there. Why NO landmarks, no city buildings, just > bear > airports and some sparcely populated terrain. Again, I might be able to help > with this. > > Airports: A terminal or hangar, some building would give a sense of scale. > Good approaches, without any depth perception or feel for altitude are > nigh-impossible. > > Ground detail: Seems to be generic, the same squirl and watertower most > everywhere. OK from on high but flying VFR, one looks for landmarks: Rivers, > highways, formations, distinctive places. These are largely absent or not > nicely represented in some cases. OK, I followed (what I guessed was) route 9 > into Boston and got there. The broad dark line could just as easily been a > river, though. There are some gray roads and black roads around but barely > adequate as locational hints. > > Maybe the generic texture keeps the disk space down and resources within > reason (the program is maybe the most GLUTonous on my system.) However, if > one plays with GoogleEarth (a nice, not very useful but fun novelty), one > sees lots of stuff which could be used as REAL ground texture for most > everywhere. This material may be freely available or licensable as suggested > in another posting. Also, the GoogleEarth photos are from above (NY is quite > detailed!), normal skyline pics from the side. An algorithm suggests itself. > > To all working on Flightgear, well done, keep on flying! I am a software > person myself with a good eye so let me know. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
