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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby elgaton » Sun May 22, 2016 7:53 pm

The fixed Mac installer has now been released.

Regarding the scenery/aircraft locations, here's how they have been reorganized (I hope this clarifies things):
  • aircraft downloaded from the Aircraft Center and TerraSync scenery are saved in <download location>/Aircraft and <download location>/TerraSync, where <download location> can be set from the Add-ons tab of the Qt launcher (it's ~/.fgfs on Mac/Unix system and C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\FlightGear on Windows, if I'm not mistaken). Thus, the download location you specify in the launcher is not just the TerraSync directory, but rather a directory containing both the TerraSync and the Aircraft download paths;
  • additional scenery and aircraft locations (which will be not automatically updated) can be specified in the Additional scenery locations and Additional aircraft locations panes, if needed.
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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby someguy » Mon May 23, 2016 12:29 am

Ah, that clears up the ambiguity, and now Terrasync works, many thanks. However, now FG cannot find the C172P in my hangar folder (not inside the data folder). All the other aircraft in that folder were found. Do I need to delete some cache file?

BTW, for Mac OS, ~/.fgfs went away in FG 3.something.
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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby elgaton » Mon May 23, 2016 8:40 am

someguy wrote in Mon May 23, 2016 12:29 am:Ah, that clears up the ambiguity, and now Terrasync works, many thanks. However, now FG cannot find the C172P in my hangar folder (not inside the data folder). All the other aircraft in that folder were found. Do I need to delete some cache file?

That happens because, as the C172P is in FGData, FlightGear gets it from there before searching your hangar folders. Just rename the C172P folder in your FGData path to something else (unfortunately, I don't have a Mac, so I don't know what the FGData path is on that platform).

someguy wrote in Mon May 23, 2016 12:29 am:BTW, for Mac OS, ~/.fgfs went away in FG 3.something.

Thanks (I assumed the path was the same as the one on Linux).
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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby bugman » Mon May 23, 2016 9:56 am

someguy wrote in Mon May 23, 2016 12:29 am:BTW, for Mac OS, ~/.fgfs went away in FG 3.something.


Simply for reference, see $FG_HOME (and for FGData on macs, see $FG_ROOT).

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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby someguy » Mon May 23, 2016 4:29 pm

elgaton wrote in Mon May 23, 2016 8:40 am:That happens because, as the C172P is in FGData, FlightGear gets it from there before searching your hangar folders. Just rename the C172P folder in your FGData path to something else


I had moved the C172P folder completely out of fgdata into my hangar folder, which is in the same enclosing folder as fgdata. I tried moving it back, but the C172P still didn't appear in the launcher. I even tried adding a line to "Additional aircraft locations" to no avail. This happened in an earlier release, I don't recall which one, and then got fixed. Just another regression, I suppose.

EDIT: I bailed on 2016.3 and downloaded the new 2016.2.1. It found both the C172P in my hangar and the one in fgdata, and seems to run well. It still crashes on exit as expected...and I still haven't seen any of Thorsten's cotton-pickin' birdies. :P :)
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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby Ambro » Thu May 26, 2016 6:58 pm

I noticed that the maxinum download speed for sceneries via TerraSync is 159 kb/s even if I use a 100Mb/s internet connection
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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby PINTO » Thu May 26, 2016 8:17 pm

That's a known issue, they think it's due to libcurl or something. Switching to http Terrasync solves the issue. There's a property you set at launch but I don't have it in front of me, sorry. You can search the mailing list for it though.
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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby wkitty42 » Thu May 26, 2016 9:50 pm

the property is
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--prop:/sim/terrasync/http-server=automatic
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Re: 2016.2.0

Postby Ambro » Fri May 27, 2016 5:44 pm

Thank you very much wkitty42 and PINTO :)
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