Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrasync for WS3.0

[James T. <ja...@fl...>]

> On 8 Jan 2024, at 15:17, merspieler <mer...@al...> wrote:
> 
> Also (iirc James mentioned that this might be possible) what
> about loading the tgx/tgz files directly instead of unpacking
> them onto disk?
> Would save me from doubling the data, cause I then don't have
> to have it once packed for the mirror and once unpacked for use.
> Instead I could, just like with ws2.0 terrasync use the same
> thing for both.

It’s possible with some dev effort : easier than the fully general case (Aircraft / FGData from compressed sources) but not trivial unfortunately either. We need to use the OSG Archive stuff to tell osgDB about our compressed files, when someone looks for a path which might be inside one.

Kind regards,
James