So I have had some time over the weekend to try and "pseudo" install my sceneries to learn this process and I have a couple of questions about everything...

1. Is it okay that I have one large Effects folder?  I would say 70% of the sceneries tried to install into the root 'effects' folder.  I moved all of them into one add-on effects folder.  You can see in my photos below.  I know which sceneries need to reference this effects folder.  Is it okay that I do all of them into one folder? Or is it better that I create an effects folder for each scenery that tries to install?

 

2. Some sceneries are trying to overwrite default files.  Do I need to let them actually go in and overwrite those files or will they be okay using the add-on method?  The most common file is to adjust the altitude which I don't think overwites files but a couple sceneries, in particular, were writing to some interesting directories such as scener/0702/scenery.  The scenery is Baku X by DD.  It wants to overwrite 4 BGL files in this directory that exist in default P3D install.  Will it be okay to reference this in the add-on xml or will it cause conflict b/c P3D has default files?

 

3. Can I combine subdirectories into one large directory?  For Example, LGIR by FSDG creates 3 directories.  Each directory has the two subdirectories Scenery & Texture.  Do I need to create 3 entries using the XML method? Or am I able to create one overall directory called LGIR, 3 subdirectories each with a Scenery & Texture folder?  You can see in my photo the 3 directories.  Can I drop them in one folder and create the LGIR as my scenery in P4AO?  Mega Sao Paulo is another big culprit that has multiple directories.

Thanks again for all the help.

Brian

 

 

 

Hello Brian,

1. One big effects folder is better

2. Hard to say. Are you sure that they overwrite files? Or is something just added? It seems a little strange that a developer would overwrite a default file for his own purposes. What about uninstalling the product, will the original file come back? It should work when you reference them. The big question is if they have to be layered above or below the default, you will have to try that. I would also just create one single base layer folder & XML for this purpose and copy the files there manually - just like with the effects. Then you don't have to worry about referencing, you just drag&drop the files in the proper folder.

3. No, you can't combine those. They are split into several subfolders because these elements have to be layered in a specific order for the scenery to work correctly. Which order that is you will have to find out either by looking at the entries in the scenery.cfg that this scenery wants to make or by trial&error

Best regards

 

Edited April 10, 20188 yr by Lorby_SI