I have received a number of emails from people trying to use DSF2Text (a fixed version is coming real soon). From this I can only guess that people are trying to customize the global scenery!
We are working on the "overlay" system - when this is a little more hammered out (a week or two) I'll try to describe it in detail. But the basic idea is to allow additional DSFs that contain only objects and other 3-d "clutter" to be superimposed on the basic terrain, adding to or replacing the default objects.
This would have a few benefits:
- Small distribution size for custom airports and other such object-based scenery (because you don't have to redistribute our mesh).
- No legal limitations (since you don't have to copy our scenery).
- Since many overlays can go on one base, a user will be able to install a number of custom airports.
- Probably the small overlay DSFs will be easier to work with - a 25 MB DSF makes an insanely huge text file in DSF2Text.
Anyway, this is all very experimental; I will have more info soon, but all of this is subject to change. For now I can only say with certainty that we are working on this problem!
1 comment:
A little surprising, yeah. ;-) DSF2Text is a bit terrible to use...really it was originally intended as a way for programmers to more easily create DSFs. But...since it's the only game in town right now, you're right, I shouldn't be surprised.
I think we'll be able to create some easier-to-use tools in the next few months.
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