Scenery Development Tools and Procedures

Adding Scenery:

The Flight Gear Scenery Addition Process Environment (FGSCAPE)

I have developed a scenery addition process, which is not really software but a process that involves existing features and some additional software. This makes it easy, using a UFO like object to add scenery to the Fg environment, use the export feature of the FG UFO to export the data to an XML file, and some custom Python scripts to export the data from the python script to a text file tat can be then copied and pasted to a text file to be cut and pasted into the stg file in the Flight Gear folder. Later versions will have the ability to navigate to the stg file, open it, and append the data to it, and save it.

Update: working code: 13 July 2020 1735

rd = open ("ufo-model-export.xml", "r")

# Read list of lines

out = [] # list to save lines

while True:

        # Read next line

        line = rd.readline()

        # print(type(line))

        if "OBJECT" in line:

          strlen=len(line)

          #print(strlen)

          #print(line)

          first_chars = line[33:strlen-15]

          print(first_chars)

        # If line is blank, then you struck the EOF

        if not line :

            break;

Here is the working Python code:

rd = open ("data1.xml", "r")

# Read list of lines

out = [] # list to save lines

while True:

        # Read next line

        line = rd.readline()

        # print(type(line))

        if "OBJECT" in line:

          strlen=len(line)

          print(strlen)

          #print(line)

          first_chars = line[33:strlen-15]

          print(first_chars)

        # If line is blank, then you struck the EOF

        if not line :

            break;

code adapted from: https://www.techbeamers.com/python-read-file-line-by-line/

Adding Scenery - current process

The current Process is as follows: (tested an d working)

Load UFO model
Press space bar
left click model description
left click on FG scenery where you want to put the scenery
press tab and adjust the scenery object
Press E to export the data, copy the data to the required STG file

An example of an exported palm tree model is shown here:

  <model>

      <legend type="string"></legend>

      <heading-deg type="double">0</heading-deg>

      <pitch-deg type="double">0</pitch-deg>

      <roll-deg type="double">0</roll-deg>

      <path type="string">Models/Trees/palm_01.xml</path>

      <latitude-deg type="double">37.49783842</latitude-deg>

      <longitude-deg type="double">-122.497318</longitude-deg>

      <elevation-ft type="double">81.19526371</elevation-ft>

      <absolute-path type="string">C:\Program Files (x86)\FlightGear\data/Models/Trees/palm_01.xml</absolute-path>

      <stg-path type="string">w130n30/w123n37/942042.stg</stg-path>

      <stg-heading-deg type="double">0</stg-heading-deg>

      <elevation-m type="double">24.74831638</elevation-m>

      <object-line type="string">OBJECT_SHARED Models/Trees/palm_01.xml -122.49731796 37.49783842 24.7483 0.0</object-line>

    </model>

Adding Scenery - Tools

These tools are listed as being available for adding scenery. Several are listed at:

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Category:Scenery_enhancement

AirportEditor is a tool to create the ground networks used by FlightGear airports
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Fr/TerraGear
http://wiki.flightgear.org/TaxiDraw
http://wiki.flightgear.org/TerraGear_GUI
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Textures_%26_Texture_Maps_in_SketchUp
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Ubuntu_scenery_tools
ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32 (Scenery Designer, bad link)
http://wiki.flightgear.org/WorldEditor

How To:

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:Add_details_to_your_airport

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:Editing_tile_textures_and_materials

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