Example:
- $ fgfs --atlas=socket,out,1,localhost,5500,udp --fg-scenery=/data1/Scenery-0.7.9
- $ nice terrasync -p 5500 -d /data1/Scenery-0.7.9
+ $ 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.
- mkdir 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
scenery tiles that you need for your position from the server.
This also works if the scenery on the scenery server is updated.
-Rsync will pull any missing files, or any updated files.
+Rsync 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. The user
-could restart flightgear after the initial rsync completes, and then
-after that everything should be good, assuming the flight track is
-"continuous" and the user has the necessary bandwidth to keep up with
-flight speeds.
+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 an initial scenery server at
-baron.flightgear.org::Scenery-0.7.9. This is the 0.7.9 vintage
-scenery with airports rebuilt to include lighting. Alex Perry also
-has a partial rsync server, but I don't know it's current status.
-William Riley has rebuilt the entire world, but the tiles are zipped
-in 10x10 degree chunks on on a relatively low bandwidth connection.
-There are aspects of the 0.7.9 scenery I like including the quality of
-the terrain, but William scenery has roads and streams which is also
-nice.
+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.