FighterAce wrote in Thu Oct 05, 2017 4:55 pm:Well, that wouldn't be a problem if you manually installed all the world scenery.
Good point, but you have to realise that some people do not have masses of free space on their hard drives, I have all the world scenery installed via terramaster and this takes up 85Gb + of space!!! OK if like me you have a 1Tb drive, but some people only have maybe a 250Gb drive. Take into account that the Windows 10 folder alone on my hard drive takes up 26.1 Gb uncompressed and the compressed size is still 20.9 Gb, That is one tenth of the hard drive gone before anything else like personal folders like photo's, documents, programs (Flightgear program alone uses 2.4 Gb) before you know it you will seriously be running short of space on a 250Gb drive!!! Flightgear devs' have to consider what the "Averages" are across the board, Like the "average" PC / Laptop, It's processor, it's GPU, It's "Average" hard drive I suspect, All this taken into account, they cannot just start adding all the requests everyone make, or it would become too large and cumbersome for some machines to run. Even for a fairly good machine, they sometimes struggle if asked too much of with the current version (3.1) As the previous posts suggest, You could develop this feature yourself, for your use and if it works maybe a downloadable "add-on" for others who want this and machines are capable of downloading and storing world scenery have the choice of using the add-on? Rather than having it as a permanent feature, that will throw a lot of "This feature doesn't work" questions at the forum, As I suspect there are very few people that have the complete world downloaded in a scenery file!!!! Sorry to sound like a party pooper, But maybe you can see it may well become a logistcal nightmare!!!