Flightgear terrain downloads

The entire world consumes about 12Gb compressed and fits onto a 3-DVD set. In some places this scenery is referred to as version 2. Some people prefer this scenery version because it is simpler and allows FlightGear to run at faster frame rates on less capable computer hardware.

Every line of source code for this project is available under the GPL license. Cockpit builders, researchers, do-it-yourselfers, industry groups, and students will all find FlightGear very open, very flexible, very adaptable, and very interfacable.

Those who prefer the complete FlightGear set on physical media can purchase a ready to run version of FlightGear OSX or Windows as well as the entire world scenery set. A portion of the sales goes towards supporting the project and a portion is donated to charity. If you are under a Linux operation system and you are not using a graphical interface to extract the tar archive, you can use one of the two following set of commands in a shell terminal.

Simply unpack the downloaded scenery into a directory of choice, using software like Winzip or 7-zip. When using the FlightGear Wizard , you can do so on the first page previous from aircraft selection.

Do not forget to press the "Refresh" button on the airport selection page, when using the wizard. Unpack the. There can be more than one scenery path in the variable, for example one path to to TerraSync scenery and one path to custom scenery. Mixing scenery types is almost universally a bad idea, and is unsupported. The Scenery directory will show the following scenery is shown for completeness and for easy reference to above :.

If you download a scenery module called w90n Note that the directory structure is already present in the tar archive, starting from the Scenery directory. These objects are included in each scenery release, but as the object database is more frequently updated than the terrain, one may want to occasionally update the Object subdirectory from the scenery objects database between scenery releases.

Another option is to download or update the scenery on-demand by using the built in TerraSync utility described above. As of FlightGear 2. From FlightGear wiki. I eagerly await a working version for windows 7 the youtube videos people make with this are amazing!

And I know this should be posted in the forums but the hassle of making a new email and registering for every forum on the internet just to make one anonymous free speech comment is just too much sometimes. So what you got yourself is the WorldScenery 1. Textures for the Grand Canyon will look pretty similar in new and old scenery, just the elevation mesh is far more accurate.

ALS also takes environment-specific options into account, you can set dust level etc. I am really so happy and satisfied with FG. I have so much entertainment, and lots of education in it. Thanks to all the volunteer developers who give me so much. So absolutely no complaints from me. I will agree with Rick. You guys are not alone in this world.

Not everyone in this world have enough money to buy all the best and newest,to be able to run the newest scenery and aircraft. You should really think about that. FG could loose a lot of users if you keep on like this,just pushing to all the newest. If more planes and more scenery become to heavy for my PC,I will have to quit using FG,as many others will for sure.

Remember ,not everyone in this world have all the best and newest. Same answer as to Rick. But this scenery is heightmapped? Hi, another quick question — I presume in order to achieve the very good quality look of the screenshots shown I will need to install either FG 2.

I just tried flying over the Grand Canyon in 2. My strategy from a weak internet connection has been to simply use the ufo to let terrasync get the scenery I want to explore beforehand.