Contributing to FlightGear - 12 Days of Flight Tips: Day 8, Season 2

[@chessdude67]

Thanks for the excellent videos, Oscar. I need to catch up on them over the next few days. Thumbs up. Happy New Year! Tim 

[@osjcag]

You're welcome :) I have once started building EHRD; the screenshots are probably somewhere on the FlightGear forums. I kind of stopped working on that project though, but maybe I'll pick it up again some day.

[@osjcag]

I know Blender is an awesome piece of software AND is open source as well. But the fact that it's also open source doesn't mean it should be the only program used or promoted. I found Google Sketchup an amazingly simple tool for modeling airport objects and buildings. Much more accessible for users who haven't even modeled anything yet. I would recommend people to start using Blender once they got used to the basics of modeling. Blender is amazing.

[@Ririds]

Thank you! I'm looking on for designing EVRA (Riga international) I hope, that tomorrows toturial will be as interesting!

[@JarlArntzen]

Exactly what I started researching today. I'm going to contribute on the landscape around Kristiansand as it is a bit too simplistic at the moment.

[@osjcag]

Awesome to hear that! Good luck :)

[@osjcag]

Sounds pretty cool; have fun modeling stuff!

[@osjcag]

Awesome :) Good luck!

[@stuntxx]

hey oscarg,great video. but i have a question, can you make a tutorial or just tell me on how to put google sketchup stuff onto flightgear? thanks

[@osjcag]

Awesome :)

[@osjcag]

Catching up on the comments here :) Happy New Year! Hope you'll get some help out of these videos ;) Oscar

[@HoraSemSiso]

Yey, um tuga que joga FlightGear hehe

[@JarlArntzen]

Got as far as downloading QGIS, connected it to OSM.org through a plugin and traced a few islands outside Kristiansand. Now I've hit a wall, though. Can't build Terragear or download the Windows build... are anyone able to download it ATM?

[@DavidVanMosselbeen]

Talking about creating 3D objects ... You should have presented Blender which is also open source software (and the most famous!), instead of that broken mind & future world-dominator-monopole Google Sketchup software!