As we've now proven highly detailed scenery is now only for the latest versions of FlightGear, perhaps it is time to create two scenery forks - basic scenery and advanced scenery.
This would serve two purposes, first to keep scenery available to lower-end/lower-bandwidth users, and to increase the access of higher-quality scenery to end users in general. Basic scenery is what we are currently packaging, the base vmap0 scenery. In locations where the updated scenery does not have a huge performance or bandwidth hit, for instance St. Maarten, that area continues to be packaged as part of the basic scenery. Basic scenery is designed for users who are using old versions of FlightGear, users who have poor bandwidth, or users who have poor performance in detailed scenery areas. Advanced scenery is highly-detailed, BTG v10 scenery we distribute as part of the base package. Considering highly detailed scenery is limited to specific areas at this time. Perhaps these areas could be bundled together as one or two downloads by the area of detail. For instance, I am working on generating scenery for western Colorado (currently w109-104, n37-39 with plans to generate up to n37-41) - this would be its own separate download package. On the world scenery page, an option to download detailed European scenery/Colorado/California/Florida/Rio de Janeiro scenery, et cetera, would be available. The areas would be organized in the same manner, but only detailed subfolders would be included in the advanced scenery repository. For instance, with Durango, w109n37 would be in the w110n30 folder but w109n36 would not be since it has not been generated. This would also make the scenery easier to maintain as the basic scenery would remain static or relatively static. Just a thought Cheers John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
