RE: [Flightgear-users] Airports
Thanks for your reply Curt, As Innis suggested, once you install the scenery for the entire world, you will have all 20,000+ airports available in the selection list. Be warned though that the launcher needs to scan your entire scenery tree first, which can take a *long* time if you have all 12Gb of scenery data installed. You are not wrong, Listen all windows users, it can take over 12 minutes each an every time you load FG for FG to read all the scenery data before it can proceed. I learnt the hard way. Fred is pondering/working on a more optimal solution for the next release. There are a number of good ideas he can try so I'm sure he'll come up with something that works quite well. :-) That would be good, scan once and save in a file should help. The documentation is essentially correct, but it was written before we created a nice little scenery installer util. This is included with the windows package and can be found in the FlightGear section of your Start menu. FlightGear can decompress the .btg.gz files on the fly so you can leave them compressed and save a bit of room on your HD. So, once you've uncompressed the 10x10 chunk into the correct scenery directory, you don't need to do anything further. That is also good to know, having run the program from the shortcut already provided by the install prog, I was unaware of that very useful utility. Thanks all who helped. Grayham Smith... ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
RE: [Flightgear-users] Airports
Hi Grayham Grayham Smith writes Hi all, I am running FG on Windows XP and the package is running without errors. 1/In the Airport selection menu there are some 57 US Airports to choose from. The documentation suggests there should be over 2000 airports to select from. How does one access these other airports? Load the scenery for the airports you want to use.If you want to use all 2000 of them then load all the US scenery you have. I assume you are using FGRUN to start FG.Well FGRUN is smart because FRED is smart.It assumes, I assume,that if you havn't got the scenery loaded for an area you won't want to fly from there. Not like in the old days were you could start were ever you liked.But people kept saying why am I in the middle of the ocean when I should be in the middle of Texas.:-) Cheers Innis ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Airports
Grayham Smith wrote: Hi all, I am running FG on Windows XP and the package is running without errors. 1/In the Airport selection menu there are some 57 US Airports to choose from. The documentation suggests there should be over 2000 airports to select from. How does one access these other airports? Hi Grayham, As Innis suggested, once you install the scenery for the entire world, you will have all 20,000+ airports available in the selection list. Be warned though that the launcher needs to scan your entire scenery tree first, which can take a *long* time if you have all 12Gb of scenery data installed. Fred is pondering/working on a more optimal solution for the next release. There are a number of good ideas he can try so I'm sure he'll come up with something that works quite well. :-) 2/I have the three DVD's containing worldwide scenery. The documentation describes what to do with the scenery files up to a point. e.g. unzip the files e000n20.tar.gz into the terrain directory. The documentation is essentially correct, but it was written before we created a nice little scenery installer util. This is included with the windows package and can be found in the FlightGear section of your Start menu. Put in a DVD, run the scenery installer util, and you can select which areas you want to install from the DVD and intall them. Again, this is a *lot* of data so it will take some time to install everything. Alternatively, you could run something like winzip and just extract the .tgz files into C:\Program Files\FlightGear\scenery That accomplishes the *exact* same thing as running the scenery installer. This intern creates a directory called e000n20 which contains many directories like e000n20,,,21,,,22,,,23,,,24. These directories each contain files like 2956160.btg.gz and 2956160.stg. This creates a directory structure and file of:- E:\flightgear\data\scenery\terrain\e000n20\e000n20\2956160.btg.gz Is this correct? do I need to unzip the resulting .btg.gz files as they contain a .btg file? do I need to do anything with the .stg files? FlightGear can decompress the .btg.gz files on the fly so you can leave them compressed and save a bit of room on your HD. So, once you've uncompressed the 10x10 chunk into the correct scenery directory, you don't need to do anything further. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-users] Airports
Title: Message Hi all, I am running FG on Windows XP and the package is running without errors. 1/ In the Airport selection menu there are some 57 USAirports to choose from. The documentation suggests there should be over 2000 airports to select from. How does one access these other airports? 2/ I have thethree DVD's containing worldwide scenery. The documentation describes what to do with the scenery files up to a point. e.g. unzip the files "e000n20.tar.gz" into the terrain directory. This intern creates a directory callede000n20 which containsmany directories like e000n20,,,21,,,22,,,23,,,24. These directories each contain files like 2956160.btg.gz and 2956160.stg. This creates a directory structure and file of:- E:\flightgear\data\scenery\terrain\e000n20\e000n20\2956160.btg.gz Is this correct? do I need to unzip the resulting ".btg.gz" files as they contain a ".btg" file? do I need to do anything with the ".stg" files? Grayham Smith... ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Airports
On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 05:30, Grayham Smith wrote: Hi all, I am running FG on Windows XP and the package is running without errors. 1/In the Airport selection menu there are some 57 US Airports to choose from. The documentation suggests there should be over 2000 airports to select from. How does one access these other airports? 2/I have the three DVD's containing worldwide scenery. The documentation describes what to do with the scenery files up to a point. e.g. unzip the files e000n20.tar.gz into the terrain directory. This intern creates a directory called e000n20 which contains many directories like e000n20,,,21,,,22,,,23,,,24. These directories each contain files like 2956160.btg.gz and 2956160.stg. This creates a directory structure and file of:- E:\flightgear\data\scenery\terrain\e000n20\e000n20\2956160.btg.gz Is this correct? It appears so. do I need to unzip the resulting .btg.gz files as they contain a .btg file? do I need to do anything with the .stg files? No. Grayham Smith... Go here, http://www.airport-technology.com/icao-codes/ pick an airfield within the US corresponding to an area of scenery that you have installed and enter it's four-letter ICAO code (LocationPosition Aircraft on ground). Dave Martin ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
