This question comes up every now and then:

 

How many sceneries can you have in FS9?

 

One of the limits is the "Level" number in the scenery.cfg file.  It's 400.  I hit it yesterday, and my scenery for LEPA disappeared after I did some rearranging to get my AFCADs to work.

 

After this point, it appears that you need to manually edit scenery.cfg.  The scenery GUI can't handle it.  The good news is, it will still work fine with a text editor on the file.

Some previous discussion on this here:

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/277936-scenery-library-maximum-number-of-entries/

 

I use scenery align to add sceneries so wouldn't have noticed.

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=scnaln.zip&CatID=root&Go=Search

 

FWIW there are 546 entries in my current scenery.cfg and going strong.

Hmmm. I don't know what's up with that. I have almost 600 scenery library entrys working just fine right now with no disappearing scenery... and I use the default scenery library GUI for most everything. It displays and edits flawlessly all 600 of them.

One of the limits is the "Level" number in the scenery.cfg file.  It's 400.

Certainly not! Actually I'am at [Area.1583].

 

Bernard

My scenery cfg file has 754 entries! All of them show up good.

Under WinXP, I got OOM problems with a number of entries somewhere in the 730ies. Under Win7, my current setup works fine with all sceneries in 702 entries.

For those who have no trouble with using the GUI to do this, do you ever delete or re-arrange sceneries?  I think I was OK until I shifted the levels around a bit.

Deleting sceneries: yes - re-arranging sceneries resp. changing layers: some few. I use Addit! Pro which allows very easy to deactivate and reactivate sceneries as well to move them to lower layers. BTW, I higly recommand to backup scenery.cfg regularly.

 

Bernard

I often add sceneries and delete some from time to time. Each time I do so, the scenery.cfg is re-arranged by FS2004 itself as I understand (I use the scenery library of FS2004 without any external tool). BTW, I always have an up-to-date backup of my whole FS2004 installation.

Using the GUI gets really cumbersome after a few hundred entries.

I prefer to group areas within the scenery.cfg for easy reference.

Something like Scenery Align is really good for this - you just drag the folder onto the SA opening page, open scenery.cfg from it, paste wherever you want in the list, and then tell SA to renumber the whole lot so it works.

 

It also is the only sensible listing of "priority" that I can understand - whatever were MS thinking when they made the GUI "backward"??