Setting the Terrain Texture default

[rleibner]

Hi,

Each FG session I use to set View/Rendering Options/Terrain Texture = Global
Is there a way to do it from the command line?
( I didn't found a related property on the tree)

[hamzaalloush]

Yes, you could, if you want to figure out what a certain rendering option does, look in $FG ROOT/gui/dialogs/rendering.xml, you need to pass sim/rendering/materials-file the location of the materials file relative to $FG ROOT, one of the three values will work from the command-line or console:

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--prop:/sim/rendering/materials-file=Materials/regions/materials.xml
--prop:/sim/rendering/materials-file=Materials/default/materials.xml
--prop:/sim/rendering/materials-file=Materials/dds/materials.xml

[Thorsten]

Each FG session I use to set View/Rendering Options/Terrain Texture = Global

Actually you should not have to - the setting is supposed to be persistent, so after setting it once, exiting FG regularly and re-starting, it should be selected without any intervention.

Does this not work (and how do you start FG? Commandline? Launcher?)?

[rleibner]

Actually you should not have to - the setting is supposed to be persistent, so after setting it once, exiting FG regularly and re-starting, it should be selected without any intervention.
Does this not work (and how do you start FG? Commandline? Launcher?)?

For debugging and testing I start FG 2017.4 from the Command line.
And for my pleasure flying I start FG 2018.2 from the Launcher.
In both cases, this setting is not persistent.
(adding --prop:/sim/rendering/materials-file=Materials/default/materials.xml works fine on both)

[Thorsten]

Could you open defaults.xml, look for the line

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      <materials-file>Materials/regions/materials.xml</materials-file>

change it into

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      <materials-file userarchive="y">Materials/regions/materials.xml</materials-file>

and see whether that makes it persistent?

[hamzaalloush]

It doesn't like it, results in parsing error. It's really not persistent, thought it was an issue on his side, but no.

Edit: Throsten's solution works, for some reason i had to clean up my $FG_HOME to solve the parsing error, I don't know why.

[rleibner]

Could you open defaults.xml, look for the line ...

Yes, adding the userarchive="y" makes the setting persistent.
No parsing error appears to me.
Thanks.