Thanks to Dominic for sending me this link…these guys are building an airship^H^H^H^H^Hhover^H^H^H^H, well, it’s weird looking. Hrm…that airport they’re landing at in the simulator looks strangely familiar.

About Ben Supnik

Ben is a software engineer who works on X-Plane; he spends most of his days drinking coffee and swearing at the computer -- sometimes at the same time.

7 comments on “I Recognize That Scenery

  1. Ben, will the ability to add/activate scenery packages on-the-fly be introduced in the ver 10 run? Is it under consideration at all?

    Many of us have several GB of addons. It's just not feasible to start XP with them all in the Custom Scenery folder. Yet often we want to fly elsewhere on a whim. Forcing a restart to accommodate the addition of new custom scenery has always been a pain.

    Cheers.

  2. To decrease "scenery enumeration" time at start-up, wouldn't it suffice to cache all the information currently collected about (custom) scenery at each start-up, and only re-enumerate the entire scenery folder(s) if its/their time stamp has changed? If the time stamps haven't changed, X-Plane could just read in the cache file and be done.

    A more radical approach would be optionally loading scenery asynchronously at start-up as well, and showing a mostly blank (white/gray) world initially… 😉

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