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4 <title>Quix0r's FlightGear Webpage - A simple FlightGear Helping Page</title>
9 <center><big><big><strong>A simple page for simple help</strong></big></big></center>
12 The main purpose of this webpage is to help people having a fully featured
13 <a href="http://www.flightgear.org" target="_blank">FlightGear</a>
14 installation. It is mainly based on my own experiences I have made with this
15 great piece of software and at home while playing with my Saitek X52 Pro joystick.
19 First of all, you need to <a href="http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml"
20 target="_blank" title="Binary download">download the latest version</a> of FlightGear
21 from a mirror. At the moment of writing this page it was <strong>2.0</strong> in
22 main program and scenery. Use <a href="http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml"
23 target="_blank">this link</a> for instance.
27 If you have done so you can only fly a bit around in the area of San
28 Francisco (KSFO plus some more). That is indeed not very much. So you need
29 to get some scenery and more "shared models". Also you will see a
30 lot warning messages or failures. We fix them all step-by-step.
34 So first let us fix the warnings (a bit, not all) and failures while the
35 program is starting up. Most happens because of missing scenery and objects
36 like buildings in the scenery. Download <em>SharedModels.tgz</em> and (if you
37 have a dial-in connection) <em>GlobalObjects.tgz</em> from <a
38 href="http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/" target="_blank">this webpage</a>.
39 You don't need to download every single building! Just grab the big tar balls.
43 On Linux systems you will find tools like <em>tar</em> and <em>gzip</em> for
44 uncompression and extraction of the data. But wait! You need to know where you
49 The GlobalObjects.tgz archive contains a lot directories like <strong>eXXXnYYY</strong>
50 plus a lot sub directories with small files in. First change the directory to FG_ROOT
51 (on my Debian system it is <em>/usr/shared/games/FlightGear/</em> and change again
52 into <em>Scenery/Objects/</em>. The final command will looks like this:<br />
54 <pre>cd /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Scenery/Objects/
55 wget http://flightgear.mxchange.org/pub/scenemodels/GlobalObjects.tgz
56 tar xzf GlobalObjects.tgz # (this will take looooong ...)
57 rm -f GlobalObjects.tgz # (to save disk space)</pre><br />
59 You can use the tab key for autocompletition if you prefer not to enter all
60 single characters in the cd command.
63 <p>That part was simple, wasn't it? :)</p>
66 Now we need to get the <em>SharedModels.tgz</em> file but its content
67 should be stored in a different folder. Here are again the needed
68 commands to get it, extract and fix a small bug in it:<br />
71 wget http://flightgear.mxchange.org/pub/scenemodels/SharedModels.tgz
72 tar xzf SharedModels.tgz # (will take again a bit longer)
73 rm -f SharedModels.tgz # (again for saving disk space)</pre>
77 <strong>Alternative download:</strong> (from my server)<br />
78 <strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="pub/scenemodels/SharedModels.tgz">SharedModels.tgz</a><br />
79 <strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="pub/scenemodels/GlobalObjects.tgz">GlobalObjects.tgz</a>
83 Well done! You can now still fly around in the basic area of San Fransico
84 Beach but with some more objects and details. :) Enjoy it before we continue
89 If you have a lot (!!!) disk space left you may want to download more scenery
90 (or the whole world?) on your drive. But you can also save it by using an
91 external <a href="rsync.html">rsync server</a>. I have discontinued to provide
92 it due to low disk space on my server (only 40 GByte). But still you can
93 <a href="pub/fgfs/Scenery/" target="_blank">donwload all packages</a>.
97 If you want to use an external <a href="rsync.html">rsync server</a> (you
98 need TerraSync to do so) please use my launch-helper which available <a
99 href="pub/fgfs-launcher.zip">here</a>. It is written in Bash (Born Again
100 Shell) and starts TerraSync for you to connect to a public <a
101 href="rsync.html">rsync server</a>. It also helps you with playing in
102 multi-player mode and many more!
106 If you want to download all the scenery then find a free weekend and continue below
107 this paragraph. Everyone else is done here or might download <a href="pub/fgfs/Aircraft/"
108 target="_blank">some aircrafts</a> as well.
112 <strong>Hint for mass-downloaders:</strong> You don't need the data from
113 AirportOverlays and RawData if you just want to fly around! You need them if
114 you want to build scenery only. And don't mess around with the <em>Models-Airspace.tar.gz</em>
115 and <em>Scenery-Airspace.tar.gz</em> located <a href="pub/fgfs/Scenery-Airspace/"
116 target="_blank">here</a>. In the <em>Scenery-Airspace.tar.gz</em> you will find a
117 folder called <strong>Objects</strong>. Don't mix that with the one in
118 <strong>Scenery</strong>. If you do so you need to re-install your scenery again.
122 <strong>Continue here with full scenery download:</strong> wget can be a good
123 friend if you know how to use it and if you clean up the download after usage.
124 So this next script is based on it.
128 You can find my download helper <a href="pub/download-helper.zip">here</a>.
129 Here are the needed commands to get full scenery on your drive:<br />
131 <pre>cd /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Scenery/
132 wget http://flightgear.mxchange.org/pub/download-helper.zip
133 unzip download-helper.zip
138 Clean up of downloaded archives is being done by extract.sh. If you like you
139 can remove <em>download-helper.zip</em>, <em>extract.sh</em>, <em>listing</em>
140 and <em>okay</em>. They belong to my script and not to FlightGear.
144 If the download fails just try to restart it with <strong>sh extract.sh</strong>
145 after some minutes. The both servers are very busy these days... :-/
149 <big><strong>Happy gaming!</strong></big>
153 PS: My manually mirrored download archive for FlightGear can be found
154 <a href="pub/" target="_blank">here</a>. So take a look around. :)
159 Created: <strong>2008-03-28</strong> |
160 Last update: <strong>2011-05-26</strong> |
161 Author: <a href="mailto:roland_NOSPAM_@_REMOVE_THIS_mxchange_AND_THIS_.org">Roland Häder</a><br />
162 <a href="links.html">Links collection</a> |
163 <a href="fgcom.html">FGCOM Tutorial</a> |
164 <a href="fgdata-bundle.html">fgdata.bundle Tutorial</a> |
165 <a href="fgfs-scenery.html">My used scenery</a> |
166 <a href="rsync.html">How to rsync a scenery</a> |
167 <a href="flights.html">My flights in FGFS</a> |
168 <a href="imprint.html">Imprint (needed in Germany)</a>