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Postby medick007 » Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:04 pm

Hi! I researched the process of adding new airport to FG through the flightgear forum and wiki. On wiki page, most links are broken. Probably new scenery generating process alters also the process of adding an airport. Or am I wrong? Is adding a new airport possible with Terragear in Windows? Thanks.
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby ludomotico » Mon Aug 02, 2021 1:32 pm

Hi medick,

AFAIK, to add an airport you have to do three things:

- Draw the airport in WorldEditor, a tool you can find in the X-Plane community. Export the result to version 850 or 1000, or just use an old version of WorldEditor: https://developer.x-plane.com/tools/worldeditor/
- Generate the scenery around the airport using terragear. This is going to be the trickiest step, by far.
- Add the new airport to the database (the apt.dat.gz file) in FlightGear. It is easy: just a "copy&paste" of the airport exported in step 1 into this file.

To **modify** an existing airport, the last step is not necessary.
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby merspieler » Mon Aug 02, 2021 1:55 pm

Before you draw the airport your self, you should check the gateway, if it already exists: https://gateway.x-plane.com/airports/page
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby medick007 » Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:12 pm

Hi, thanks for advice. The airport already exists in x-plane (LZSE). I forgot to mention it. Is it possible to export it somehow to flightgear database?
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby merspieler » Thu Aug 05, 2021 4:36 pm

Unfortunately it's not as easy as exporting it (yet... might come eventually with WS3.0)

You can download the files from the gateway (requires you to sign up).

In there, the file you need is the apt.dat file.
This saves you step one which ludomotico listed above.

You still need to use terragear to generate the scenery. See the following wiki page for more information on how to do it https://wiki.flightgear.org/TerraGear
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby TheEagle » Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:02 pm

merspieler wrote in Thu Aug 05, 2021 4:36 pm:This saves you step one which ludomotico listed above.

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Re: Adding new airport

Postby medick007 » Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:50 pm

Ok, so terragear GUI is useless. Mapserver is not online anymore. Basically that was the way how to do it in windows. Thanks for your suggestions.
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby TheEagle » Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:54 pm

Yes, TerraGear GUI is use less and MapServer died. In case you need help on getting the data elsewhere, you can have a look at this Wiki article I wrote (work in slow progress, but the sources part is already done) Until it's done, you can always send me a private message or open a new forum topic in case you have any problems !
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby wkitty42 » Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:24 pm

clarification: mapserver didn't die... it was taken down or cordoned off due to abuse... at least one someone/group was trying to rake all of the data out of it without permission...
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby pb321 » Tue Aug 31, 2021 9:34 pm

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Re: Adding new airport

Postby Simworld2020 » Sat Sep 04, 2021 10:34 am

Maybe you can "flatten", "iron" or "bulldoze" the terrain rather than build it with terragear. These two topics may be of help:

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=37404&p=367307&hilit=flatten#p367252
https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=38609&p=379837&hilit=flatten#p379837
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby D-ECHO » Sat Sep 04, 2021 10:59 am

These topics mostly are about editing HGT files, which are input files for terragear, i.e. you still need to run terragear
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Re: Adding new airport

Postby Simworld2020 » Sat Sep 04, 2021 6:45 pm

D-ECHO wrote in Sat Sep 04, 2021 10:59 am:These topics mostly are about editing HGT files, which are input files for terragear, i.e. you still need to run terragear


Ahh ok, learned something new, thanks.
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