As was discussed on the devel-list earlier this year, the most promising approach to get Google-Earth-like scenery into FG is to make use of NASA's WorldWind. This has basically the same functionality of Google Earth and all off the data is freely usable and, since it has been released as Open Source, the source code is available. And it isn't possible to ship the terabytes of data in the scenery-files.
However, and this also has been mentioned already, at the moment Flightgear does not have any possibility to change "the carpet" at runtime. "The carpet" is defined in the building of scenery using terragear and FG uses just that. And even if you modify the stg-files the modifications will only be available for your own use. At present there's no way this work will make it in the standard scenery set. (Although there are some projects working on changing this.) So, if you want to contribute scenery work for the project, the most promising will be to a) create models of buildings and other objects b) place objects in the scenery c) submit positions and the objects to Jon's database Mark David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >>> 2. The terrain image, the carpet. This is laid or projected onto the >>> countour. Here is where I believe the googleearth(-type) images should be >>> used instead of generics. Now, everything is there so when flown at >>> altitude much greater than the features heights, this looks realistic and >>> no further furnishings are required. That bridge is represented, >>> buildings, roads, all should be there without further editing. >>> >> Firstly there's no way Google are gonna give us access to the keyhole >> imagery at a price we could afford. Secondly there's currently no >> support for texture paging in flightgear - and neither NVidia nor ATI >> show any signs of producing a card that could hold a few hundred square >> miles worth of high res texture in memory yet ;-) >> >> It would be nice - but we're far from ready with either data or code to >> support the use of the data. >> > > There is free stuff around. A google for satellite aerial image free yielded > a > number of sites. Got to look at one before Konqueror crashed out--at lof of > that lately!. A Microsoft Terraserver serving up U.S. Geological Survey > images. OK, these are monocrome but are supported by your tax dollars. They > will sell you photos but you can download all the images you want. This was > the first one on the list. I'll check others. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
