Comments on: No more scenery in the Resources/Earth nav data folder.

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:04:00 +0000

Jim, that's correct...

1. If you ever find scenery to add to x-plane that doesn't come in a package, put it in a package yourself, then into custom scenery.

2. If you want to continue to use the global ENV render in future versions of x-plane, you'll need to package it, as the 8.0 DVD installer that provides it (and the v7 GLOS CDs) don't package it.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:05:00 +0000

Hi Ben, Cormac beat me to the question – and I still install Custom ENV scenery into the Custom Scenery Folder – however just to clarify… are you also saying that we should put ENV files that cover the portion of the earth that we have no DSF files for, into the Custom Scenery Folder also? i.e. above 60 degrees latitude?

Thanks!

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:41:00 +0000

Hi Cormac,

Users should bundle the ENV files into a scenery package. If they REALLY want to install it AND have the DSFs override it, they could put it in the defauilt scenery folder, but I don't recommend this -- it's a waste of disk space, at risk of interfering with x-plane's internal files, etc. Why install scenery if you don't want to see it? :-)

(I know the answer ... because you don't know which files are "under" DSFs...)

By: Cormac Shaw

Cormac Shaw — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:19:00 +0000

Hi Ben,
Ok, no more stuff in the Resources/Earth nav data folder.
Where do you recommend a user puts the old default env scenery (or the xpsrtm stuff) if they want to use that but don't want it to override any coinciding DSF scenery, be it default DSF or custom packages?