#INSTALL SCENERY FLIGHTGEAR FULL#
#INSTALL SCENERY FLIGHTGEAR DOWNLOAD#

There's two schools of thoughts among the developers. With shadows I'm not sure which ones you mean - cloud shadows only go out to 30 km or so (usually in reality they're not visible much farther either), vegetation shadows go out as far as the vegetation LOD range because they're just extra quads added to a tree.Īnd related to multi core, when did FlightGear see the light of day. Overlay objects (lights on the roads, buildings, vegetation.) are loaded at 'their' LOD range (which the user can configure) - they're not actually visible out to infinity, but often they're introduced in up to 10 LOD groups, so the whole chunk never pops at once, there's just gradually 'more' stuff appearing when you get closer. The texture resolution can be fairly coarse, because the actually visible texture at high rendering quality is a composite of six different textures and procedural noise, some of which generate details as small as a few cm - in terms of GPU memory and loading times, that's rather efficient. Terrain textures are utilized for whole regions, so usually they need to be loaded once at startup, remain resident in GPU memory and are by and large just used when a new chunk of mesh is loaded, it's rare they need to be loaded. Also, particularly 'heavy' terrain (lots of vegetation requested, or the OSM2CIty real building coverage overlay) often makes this happen at lower visibilities.īut for ~150 km visibility, the bare terrain mesh is reasonably simple, so it loads fast (especially from an SSD). You can easily (dependent on your systems specs) make the terrain loading process visible - certainly something like the X-15 climbs fast enough such that when requesting 600 km arc-top visibility, you see the circle of terrain mesh expanding around you. So it seems to me others are just doing worse (?) Though I believe the loading queue for the 3d renderer is of the few things that can utilize multiple cpus - I'm not sure that's the default setting though. at a distance 20% larger than current visibility). I'm actually surprised at your question - I wouldn't have described FG in such terms myself, and in fact some two years ago I wrote a long comment on the developer's list how the lack of LOD for the terrain mesh is one of our biggest problems (of course, now loading terrain from SSD into the 8GB of memory of a high-performance GPU, it ceased to be an issue again.)īut the fact remains that it is conceptually not a 'good' scheme - it just loads the terrain mesh when requested (i.e. The wiki has more information on launching and running TerraSync.What's the secret? Why does everything load so effortlessly? This utility runs in the background in a separate process, monitors your position, and downloads (or updates) the latest greatest scenery from the master scenery server “just in time”. There is a utility available (now built into FlightGear) called “TerraSync”. When downloading and installing scenery, the files are named according to the coordinates of their lower, left hand corner.

#INSTALL SCENERY FLIGHTGEAR FULL#

From the FlightGear store – If your bandwidth is limited or expensive, you can avoid huge downloads and purchase the complete FlightGear distribution including both Windows and MacOSX installers, the full (and most recent) world scenery set, the entire collection of aircraft, and source code.

This is a great way to keep current, but requires an active internet connection, and may trigger quite a bit of bandwidth usage as you fly.

#INSTALL SCENERY FLIGHTGEAR DOWNLOAD#

v2.0.1 via Terrasync – TerraSync is an in-app service that will download the local scenery ahead of where you are flying.v1.0.1 “SD” – Click on a file to download the corresponding 10×10 degree scenery tile.It consumes about 86Gb compressed and fits on a 4-bluray + 1-dvd. It has wonderful details through the European region, and pretty good detail through the USA. v2.0.1 is a newer world scenery build based on updated and more detailed source information.Some people prefer this scenery version because it is simpler and allows FlightGear to run at faster frame rates on less capable computer hardware. In some places this scenery is referred to as version 2.12 which matches the version of FlightGear that was current at the time this world scenery set was generated. The entire world consumes about 12Gb compressed and fits onto a 3-DVD set. You can think of it as “SD” or standard detail level. v1.0.1 is an older world scenery build.FlightGear World Scenery - v1.0.1 and v2.0.1įlightGear scenery is available for the entire world.

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