Hi ALL
The Livery database:
http://liveries.flightgear.org/
Many aircrafts for flight-gear can be patched with amazing artwork done thru the years by outstanding FG artists. The livery database contains a nice collection of these liveries built thru the years. But each user needs to download any of these individually, to be able to enjoy them
The only disadvantage I found in the current set-up is for multi-playing. To be able to "see" the other user's livery, both the pilot and the company need to have the livery installed. Example, if you fly along a 737 that uses a given =non default= livery (that is the pilot installed it), but you did not installed, then you will not be able to see it, and the exercise of installing these liveries become a unnecessary computational exercise.
A solution:
Maybe if an aircraft will have "default" installed most liveries made in the past, then getting a given aircraft may also mean having the update livery database for such aircraft! , this way, all a pilot has to do to get a "customized" livery, is to have an updated aircraft from the source. I thought of this over the Spring festival, when D-LASER satisfactorily indicated seeing, to his surprise, Skyboat's very own customized Tour Livery on the MD-10:: This made possible thanks to D-LASER installing the FGMEMBERS MD-10 just hours earlier, and thus being all up-dated with a livery that existed in FG for only a few days. Quite a nice surprise
Requesting help!!
Installing all the liveries in the database, into the FGMEMBERS respective aircraft is a very convenient and easy move, but it requires an important amount of workmanship, and thus, I invite any volunteer that wants to help. We can do this together, as a community, one aircraft at a time!
The posts below exemplifies the steps required to get this goal achieved
Let's get those liveries installed, and let them exhibit themselves in all their glory in the FG world:: That was their intention by the authors and artists!!