[Flightgear-devel] Re: Open Scenery Standard

[Phil S. <pr...@ab...>]

This is a very good idea ...

Phil

In message <01cf01c0d3de$10a1bf10$0afefe0a@jfnt5>, 
	"Mally" <ma...@tk...> writes:
> With the amount of third-party scenery development that takes place, I find
> it difficult to comprehend that scenery developers haven't yet proposed an
> Open Scenery Standard.  In this scenario, the developers would develop their
> scenery to the Open Standard, and it would be up to the flightsims to import
> the Open Scenery and convert it into BGLs or whatever, not the other way
> round (of course, Flightgear would use it as the native format).
> 
> Microsoft's and other developers' reliance on third party add ons to enhance
> the value of their products would pretty much guarantee that they would have
> to accept the standard in the same way they've had to accept non-proprietary
> document formats.
> 
> Scenery developers' investment in the development of their scenery wouldn't
> be tied to the whims and success or otherwise of a commercial product, and
> the scenery would be available to all flightsim implementations, not just
> one (maybe two) particular implementations (or even specific versions). And
> they wouldn't have to feel that their efforts were unpaid contributions to
> corporate profits.
> 
> This looks like a good opportunity for Flightgear to establish the direction
> the world flightsim community should be going, and with it establish some
> credibility and a greater profile, rather than chasing MSFS all the time.
> It would take a fairly co-ordinated effort to convince the existing scenery
> developers to adopt the standard, and Flightgear could play a role here by
> providing tools/converters and of course a flightsim to actually run the
> scenery.
> 
> I may have missed something, but I've suggested this before on various
> scenery mailing lists, and had no response, so please reply even if only to
> say I'm wrong or it has already been done or whatever.
> 
> Mally
> 
> 
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