Re: [Plib-users] BGL Loader

[Wolfram K. <w_...@rz...>]

John wrote:

>M$FS 3D scenery usually use .bgl files to present buildings.
>I am also a FGFS user. If we can have a BGL file loader in ppe, we can
>convert M$SFS secnery to objects that FG accepts.=20

Yes. Two or three people have asked about that already, but noone
seemed to be inclined to do the work. Like Per, I believe that
building on top of the MDL loader is best. I *think* the difference
between .MDL planes and scenery is fairly small, especially if you
only want to get the geometry in a first step and not all the
additional information like frequencies etc. If we have one module
that reads BGL commands, then maintaining it is easier.

You might also want to speak to Thomas Sevaldrud, the original author
of the MDL reading code.

>One problem I am not
>sure is that how thousands of BGL objects be rendered in FG. If I have a
>single (or not too many) MDL plane I can simply fly it.

IMHO there is an ascii file where you can input the position of static
objects in FGFS. Anyway, people, at least Rangathan (sp?) have done
it, so you should be able to get this info on the fgfs list.

>
>John Tsao

Bye bye,
Wolfram.