Flightgear scenery slow how to#

I could not find a way to place my objects in their own scenery package, the placement information goes into the same tiles as the global scenery.An option to just place them at terrain altitude would be useful. So for one object it took a bit of trial and error to get this right. When placing the object you need to enter the altitude above MSL.There is an UFO aircraft that has dynamics that come close to slewing, but I still find it hard to control. There is no slew mode, so I had quite some trouble to view my objects after placing.The placement information is simply entered in a text file in the scenery folder, no need to compile to a binary format.The AC3D model files are just placed in a scenery or model folder, you don’t need to use another compiler to put them in some binary format.Below are the things I liked and the things I didn’t like that much in the process. In the end I succeeded, with help from the FlightGear Wiki, that has some interesting articles.

Flightgear scenery slow how to#

Next I had to figure out how to place them in the scenery. So I just imported their MDL files into ModelConverterX, saved all textures as PNG and exported the model to the AC3D format. I was using two models I had made before for FSX. Getting the objects in a format that FlightGear can read was quite easy. In this blog I will describe some of the things I came across. Let me start with the good news, in the end I was able to see my objects.

Having done scenery design for Microsoft Flight Simulator for such a long time, it takes a little time to get used to the differences. This evening I took my first (baby) steps into scenery design for FlightGear.