On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:45:12 +1000 Hank The Tank wrote: > > Hello All. > > A noobz question regarding scenery. If I choose to create my own scenery > following the directions at this location: > http://www.terragear.org/docs/scenery-tutorial/fg-scenery-tutorial.html > will I be able to generate scenery of any *greater* detail than that > which is available in the 0.9.10 scenery folders at the the flightgear > ftp sites? > > What I'm asking is if the scenery on the ftp servers is generated using > *all* the publicly-available data to generate the final scenery i.e. is > it generated to the maximum possible detail (without going in and adding > individual scenery items on a tile-by-tile basis - I know the open > sourceness of the project allows me to do that If I want to). > > Because if not, generating my own *more detailed* scenery from the raw > data + terra-tools sounds like a useful use of processor cycles.
Yes, you can get better-resolution scenery that route. For instance, you could use SRTM1 data with no downsampling. You can also try using VMAP1 instead of VMAP0 for land use/roads/railroads/rivers. There are a number of things you can do. Be aware that you may be surprised by the hit in fps you take; but that's no reason not to experiment and see what you get. You may want to look at this document of mine on the Wiki: http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Building_Terragear The person who put it there gave it the wrong title. Only a small fraction of it is about *building* terragear; the majority is made up of addenda/clarifications/mistake-fixes for the existing docs on *using* Terragear. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
