Re: [Flightgear-devel] ufo model placement?

[Georg V. <hel...@ar...>]

Curtis L. Olson schrieb:
> Quick question:
>
> I'm trying to guide someone through the process of placing several 
> models into the scene with the UFO.  They are using the v0.9.10 release 
> on Windows.
>
> They are able to place the models and write them out to 
> %APPDATA%\flightgear.org\ufo-model-export.xml and the contents of that 
> file looks good.
>
> Now how do you get these models to appear next time you run FlightGear?
>
> I thought you wanted the --config= option, but that seems to fail under 
> windows (I do see that it works and the models appear under linux with 
> the current development build.)
>
> Is there a work around to get these models loading in v0.9.10 for Windows?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Curt.
>
Hi Curtis,

quick answer on quick question: if there is no better solution available 
now then you might try my FGTools program as it runs under Windows.

There might be 2  problems:
1.  that there is no documentation for the new functions (there was no 
interest in this program and I just develop and use it for my own 
purposes, so no doc is needed) BUT you only have to do some very easy 
steps after you have placed all your models and created a 
ufo-model-export.xml file ("e").
(As I am working this weekend (I am actually at home on duty by call via 
mobile phone) I could not write new parts for the doc until the begin of 
next week.)
2. that FGTools creates only SHARED entries now when reading from the 
ufo-file (there are other possibilities to convert that to STATIC but 
this would go to far for this post)

Short description (screenshots say more than words):

1. prerequisite
http://home.arcor.de/vollnhals-bremen/FGT/ScrFGT01.jpg
Go to the "Windows" page of FGTools and select the path to your 
FlightGear install (ie to C:\Sims\FlightGear910)

2. read  file and  autoplace models
http://home.arcor.de/vollnhals-bremen/FGT/ScrFGT02.jpg

Go to the "Models" page of FGTools and  press button "Get data from UFO 
cursor file". Select the file (normally "ufo-model-export.xml" but you 
may have renamed it as you created several of it) and press OK.


3.writing the *.stg file
http://home.arcor.de/vollnhals-bremen/FGT/ScrFGT03.jpg

FGTools reads all models out of the file, calculated the path and name of the *.stg file, opens the file, writes the information into it and autosaves it. It is displayed in a checkbox but this can also converted into a editbox with the possibility of hand-made corrections.

There are a lot of other possibilities which are explained in an somehow older manual (more then 30 pages PDF).

Might be this could help, please give feedback whether you are interested. The reply might be delayed as I might be off working this evening or night :-/

Regards
Georg EDDW