I see there's no more Addon Scenery folder.

 

Where do I extract freeware scenery?

Just make any folder, call it Bob's Burgers from Bunton, extract your freeware scenery inside, and then add it to the scenery library.

Ok I just made a folder called Addon Scenery

Can I have one of Bob's burgers?

Lest We forget - NO FUN Allowed !! - Johnman :mad: B)

Ok I just made a folder called Addon Scenery

 

Before things get too complicated, you DID site that folder away from the default Pepar3D folder ?

 

My Addon Scenery folder is located on a completely different hard drive. When you add sceneries via the scenery .cfg (or the GUI) it really doesn't care WHERE it is, only that you can point the location out.

 

The three-module approach for P3D V3 installation is to allow core files to be updated independently. No-one yet knows what implications there may be for having non-standard folders among the defaults.

Hey Ryan, I was wondering this too yesterday I created an 'Addon Scenery' folder in there too, and loaded into the scenery library from there (actually using scenery config editor, which at the new version 1.1.6 fully supports p3d V3) - no issues.

I left the folder in the root directory.

 

I'm a bit miffed at this idea of installing addons in different locations.

 

The addons should be together with the sim - it's been working fine for 20 years... Why change it?

Before things get too complicated, you DID site that folder away from the default Pepar3D folder ?

 

 

 

I haven't put my Addon Scenery back yet. In order to save space on my SSD, I am curious about putting my Bob's Burgers file on a 3.0 USB external hard-drive. As anyone done this without a noticeable drop in texture loading time? Just curious.

Having a dual installation of FSX and now P3Dv3, I've now created a 'shared scenery' folder on the same drive.

 

Although I have a lot of scenery installed (and working) for both sims, they're both accessing exactly the same location.

 

So far it seems to work a treat.

 

Where possible, I did use the installers for P3D. That way I know all the other relevent 'effects' etc get installed. Where this was not possible, I either installed to a temp location first, then moved it all, or coppied the relevant files from the FSX structure.

 

Means all my photoscenery is in just one place. Massive space saving too;-)

P3D is also perfectly happy to use 'symbolic links' to other scery too;-)

I left the folder in the root directory.

 

I'm a bit miffed at this idea of installing addons in different locations.

 

The addons should be together with the sim - it's been working fine for 20 years... Why change it?

 

Because L-M are listening to users who berated them about the need to do a full reinstallation for relatively modest intermediate updates. It's designed for your convenience, but nobody minds if you want to install into the main folder.

Just don't come moaning when we all update in 15 seconds and you are forced to do a full installation of the sim  and every addon, taking many. many hours.

 

And in any case, it hasn't been working like that for `twenty years` - from FSX days onwards there have ALWAYS been files located outside the main sim folder. This is just a natural extension of that policy, designed to make life easier for those who want their lives to be easier.

 

The clever money has long been taking advantage of the .cfg naming conventions to co-locate scenery, aircraft and other addons. If you have ANY scenery from ORBX you will have accepted the fact that THEY create a folder in your sim root for their files. WE can take advantage of symbolic links to move that folder to another drive to increase system responsiveness, lower loading times, and even increase fps or share files across platforms, as Dougal notes.

 

Under the new L-M system you can now even use the platform to stratify the loading of addons. You should read up on that.

 

If you have ANY scenery from ORBX you will have accepted the fact that THEY create a folder in your sim root for their files. WE can take advantage of symbolic links to move that folder to another drive to increase system responsiveness, lower loading times, and even increase fps or share files across platforms, as Dougal notes.

 

Which won't work with Orbx FTX Global Base Pack.

Lets face it - the farther away from the Main folder Your Addon Scenery folder is - and ESPECIALLY - a different Hard Drive - the More the Computer Has to work - and the Longer its Going to talke - to Load and Use the Scenery !! - 101 ?? - Johnman

Nonsens johnman! I have my Addon Scenery on an SSD and have NOT noticed ANY delays.  :smile: Before that I had them on a normal HD, also with NO problems or delays.

 

Jack

the Swede in Spain