sanhozay wrote in Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:54 am:wkitty42 wrote in Thu Mar 12, 2015 1:41 am:what i'm really looking at is that for the one aircraft that i have created a new livery for, i copied its original Aircraft/theplane folder to my private area and then went in and added my livery to the existing ones... what i'm hoping for is to not have to copy an aircraft's directory at all... just create a directory in my private area that contains only the Models/Livery directory and in there would be only my few files (svg, png, and one or two xmls) related to my livery...
OK, I'm beginning to understand. How did you install Flightgear and where is your Aircraft directory at the moment?
i have three installations at this point in time...
the first is 3.4.1 from the PPA on launchpad... i don't know where everything for the PPA installation resides...
the second is 3.4.1 from git... the third is 3.5.0 from git... yes, there's three fgdatas...
the two installs from git are in my flightgear-dev directory... 3.4.1-git is using fgdata-og (og == old generation) from before the new split... 3.5.0 in there is using the new stripped fgdata-ng... i have also pulled the fgaddon repository...
i have a "myflightgear" directory with Aircraft and Scenery directories inside it... currently i'm only using the Aircraft directory and have one aircraft in it that is a complete copy of one from one of the above fgdata directories... all i want to do is create a new livery for it and fly it without having to copy the entire original directory or modify the original directory... if that can be done...
eg:
myflightgear/Aircraft/theplane/
myflightgear/Aircraft/theplane/Models/
myflightgear/Aircraft/theplane/Models/Liveries/
myflightgear/Aircraft/theplane/Models/Liveries/mylivery.xml
myflightgear/Aircraft/theplane/Models/Liveries/mylivery.png
myflightgear/Aircraft/theplane/Models/Liveries/my-livery-template.svg
myflightgear/Aircraft/theplane/Models/Liveries/original-livery-template.svg
in other words, inherit the existing "theplane" from the fgdata directory and then my files above are seen and applied as a new livery to "theplane"... ??
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