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There's no use of a Moonlight glow....
Or the Peaks where Winter Snows....
What's the use of the waves that will break in the cool of the evening....
What is the Evening?
Without you...
It's Nothing.
(Tom Jobim and Aloysio de Oliveira, Useless landscape)

And "you", in a flight simulator, is a photo scenery. This project is dedicated to put the player inside a FlightGear airplane with an as useful landscape as possible.

Parque Estadual de Vila Velha (Ponta Grossa, Brazil) photoscenery in FlightGear with Útil paisagem

Why a new photoscenery tool?

Julia Photoscenary often gets errors while retrieving images and simply can't deal with them well enough, leaving a black square at the ground. There is also a Python tool which can statically create photographic scenery for FlightGear, but not automated enough. Útil paisagem is supposed to deal with photoscenery and solve download problems in a nice, user-friendly way. And with a graphical user interface, of course.

Route downloading in Útil paisagem

Installing Útil paisagem

1. In order to install Útil paisagem, first ensure you have Python 3.13 or higher installed.
2. After this, download the latest release and decompress it on the folder of your choice.
3. Run install.sh or win_install.bat depending on your operating system.
4. It will then appear on your start menu or desktop. Use those shortcuts to run it.
5. Click "Settings" and configure them approprietly (specially the orthophotos folder and connection settings).
6. Run FlightGear adding the folder above the orthophotos folder as an additional scenery folder.

Read more here.

SBCT photoscenery in FlightGear with Útil paisagem

Design goals

Útil paisagem goals are:

• Download scenery and put it as a DDS image into a user-definable folder.
• Deal with download errors.
• Automatically remove old, unused scenery, or at user request.
• Have a useful GUI.

A more complete list is available here.