--- Innis Cunningham wrote: > drew writes > > >Now that I have your attention, a small question. I'm interested in > >sprucing > >up the scenery around my home village but am a little confused by the > >difference between fgsd and TerraGear, and what I should use to edit > >scenery. > >I would very much appreciate if someone could point me in the right > >direction > >there. > > Here is how I understand it having never actually used either program in > > anger. > Fgsd is for placing objects in the scenery so if you want to add a > hangar or > house > to your area Fgsd is your tool. > If on the otherhand you have a mountain were no mountian should be or a > lake > were land should be then TerraGear is your tool. > I am sure other people who have actually used these programs will fill > in > for > my limited understanding.
This isn't quite correct. If you want to place objects in the scenery (hangars, landmarks, bridges) the easiest way to do so is with the UFO aircraft. You can either create the models yourself (typically using AC3D or Blender), or make use of the large number of models available in the FG Scenery Object Database (http://fgfsdb.stockill.org/). You can contribute the models and object locations back to the database so everyone can benefit from your work. This is a great way to contribute to the project while making your local area much more interesting! If you want to make some local changes to the scenery (other than airports), you can use FGSD. However, such changes will only affect your own scenery files and will be incompatible with the next release of the FG scenery. This is fine if you just want to change the terrain type of some of the surrounding terrain. There is no easy way to contribute this back to the community. If you want to make more significant changes to the scenery that will be permanent, you'll need to use Terragear, and probably the new GRASS interface. This is new(ish) and under development. Terragear itself is also quite hard to get to work. If you want to change an airport (e.g. add a runway, taxiway) you'll need to use TerraGear to have your changes reflected in the scenery. -Stuart ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
