legoboyvdlp wrote:I suspect he means that scenmodels is less secure than FGADDON.
I have not seen this to be a problem. I dont' recall any unsafe software or code been leaked into Terrasync. And, I call literally BS on this.
No one but Martin used to be able to push into terrasync. The only way to submit stuff there, AFAICT, was via the scenery database webpage, which ONLY accepted ac files, xml files, png textures, and the thumbnails.
Xml files could have embedded nasal for animations, but yet 1) the number of nasal scenery models in very _VERY_ small, and 2) NASAL is made by FG for FG and as far as I know is inherently safe.
(claim being that NASAL is not safe, and the solution is way outside of scenery creators to fix this ASAP if this being true)
All Scenery contributions are curated manually by a real person (Vicmar), and he is very judicious in revising things for real. So that scenemodels had been inherently unsafe, is a shameless lie.
If you had made a plane that had placards all over it 'join FGMEMBERS', and pushed it to FGADDON, by the next day it would be gone.
Are you kidding me? I never have pushed anything at all to FGADDon, and I protect myself very well of the intention of doing so.
OTOH, liveries are not even supposed to be pushed to FGADDon, by policy. So, why would I make a FGMEMBERS livery to ship to FGADDon? It makes no sense.
(Speaking of, maybe a FGMEMBERS livery for the FGMEMBERS' 787-9 sounds a cool stuff, maybe I engage doing it)
But scenmodels is not so well scrutinized, and so, well, Geneve has been there for months. As it should be.
Scenemodels is very well scrutinized. MUCH MORE so, than FGADDon. Every contribution to scenery is evaluated by one person. Many contributors, and a growing number, contribute to FGADDon, without additional revision. Are you out of your mind today, lego?
Besides, Scenemodels had never had a policiy against placcards. There are several FGUK themed buildings on terrasync as well. Other USA Tour buildings, Firefly buildings, and JWocky building in Homey.
Its just a normal part of the creativity, and of making FG world special, and different.
I wish more sutff like this could be found- think of Merlion, Buildings, other VAs, etc.
As a matter of fact, even Geneve has FGAddon buildings!!
So, there could well be a nasal virus placed into a scenery .xml, and pushed to TerraSync. It would be there till it was discovered.
NAsal Virus!!
That is certainly a claim. NASAL should be made safe, and it has nothing to do with aircrafts or models. It has to do with the nasal source code itself, and that's where such fear should be blocked and targeted.
To my knoweldge today, there is not a NASAL virus! If there is, I want as much information (real information not fear pondering ) as possible, to protect myself.
If they'd take your advice about the git based terrasync alternative which you proposed to Torsten, there would be none of this situation.
Haha. You think?
My advise has always been. Make it distributed. Their attitude is always: under no circumstance.
Why? I 've no idea. But for what is worth, Scenemodels is certainly the safest place FG has, for many years.