TerraSync ========= Usage: terrasync -p [ -R ] [ -s ] -d terrasync -p -S [ -s ] -d Example: $ fgfs --atlas=socket,out,1,localhost,5500,udp --fg-scenery=/usr/local/FlightGear/data/scenery:/data1/Scenery-0.9.2 $ nice terrasync -p 5500 -d /data1/Scenery-0.9.2 Requirements: - rsync util installed in your path. or - svn util installed in your path NOTE!!!! Do not run terrasync against the default $FG_ROOT/data/Scenery/ directory. I recommend creating a separate scenery directory and specifying both in your ~/.fgfsrc file or via the command line. TerraSync is a utility that is intended to run as a light weight background process. It's purpose is to monitor the position of a FlightGear flight and pre-fetch scenery tiles from a remote server based on the current FlightGear position. This allows you to do a base install of FlightGear with no add on scenery. Now just go and fly anywhere. Scenery is fetched "just in time" and accumulated on your HD so it is already there next time you fly. You can fly anywhere and essentially just the scenery you need is auto-installed as you fly. Terrasync runs as a separate process and expects the --atlas=port format to be sent from fgfs. The fgfs output tells the terrasync util where FlightGear is currently flying. Terrasync will then issue the appropriate commands to rsync the surrounding areas to your local scenery directory. The user need to choose a port for FlightGear->TerraSync communication and then specify the server location and destation scenery tree. As you fly, terrasync will periodically refresh and pull any new scenery tiles that you need for your position from the server. This also works if the scenery on the scenery server is updated. Rsync ( or svn ) will pull any missing files, or any newly updated files. There is a chicken/egg problem when you first start up in a brand new area. FlightGear is expecting the scenery to be there *now* but it may not have been fetched yet. I suppose without making a more complex protocol, the user will need to be aware of this. For now I suggest exiting FlightGear after terrasync gets caught up, and restarting FlightGear. The second time FlightGear starts up everything should be good. Final notes: I have set up the scenery server at scenery.flightgear.org::Scenery-0.9.2. This is the latest 0.9.2 build of the world. Note to self: nice ./terrasync -p 5500 -s baron.flightgear.org:/stage/fgfs05/curt/Scenery-1.0 -d /stage/catalina3/Scenery-1.0/