Naming Guide for scenery development

Hi folks,

I like to introduce my naming convention for my scenery development. This is - of cause - discussable, but it would be nice if we can agree on a naming and design convention, because it makes it much easier to integrate sceneries if they cover similar areas.

Let me show you how I do it:

Under the general scenery folder I define my area:

I have a documentation folder for readme and other stuff not used by aerofly.

elevation, images and places are the folders needed from aerofly to work.

Unter each of them I make sub directories defining the areas covered.

All of them starting with the type.

ele_ for elevation, img_ for the map images, apt_ for airport data, cul_ for independent cultivation areas.

After that the level of detail is coded: 09_ and the "name" of the area: 8b80_b880_

This is the unique identification.

For a faster identification I also add a name for this area.

Inside the elevation folder elevation files of this area are included:

ele_09_8a00_a980_prague\maph_11_8a60_a9c0.tth

Inside the images folder all ortho files:

img_09_8a00_a980_prague\map_12_8a00_a9b0.ttc

Inside the airport folders the airport data are included:

If it is just a basic tsc file;

apt_09_8a00_a980_prague\LKRO-Roudnice.tsc

If you have a bigger airport with textures and stuff make a subdirectory for it.

Inside the cultivation folder put the building_textures folder, the cul_11_8bc0_a8a0.tsc and the cul_11_8bc0_a8c0.toc.

Use the same tile system like maps and elevation. In this case you don't need to find out what exact boundaries a foreign scenery use.If the sizes are the same you can deactivate the area you don't want.

My convention is: the biggest size if the toc files is the highest level of elevation detail. So if I compile elevation from 9 to 11 my size for cultivation would be 11, to avoid flying buildings.

What do you think?

Well, it works in the addon location.

I have the DVD Version (Win10).

It works in

C:\Users\[user]\Documents\Aerofly FS 2\scenery\czechrepublic

and in the folder defined by:

<[string8][extra_user_folder][D:\Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator Addons]>

-> D:\Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator Addons\scenery\czechrepublic

If it does not work with steam or mac we habe to rethink the structure.

We never put addons in the IPACS Program folder…

by the way… the extra_user_folder is currently not existing in my main.mfc…

Still in the tm.log the location load:

1.55-module_update: scenery folder 0: 'C:/Users/micha/Documents/Aerofly FS 2/scenery/'

1.56-module_update: scenery folder 1: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/09_9b80_a400_Krim/'

1.56-module_update: scenery folder 2: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/comores_mayotte/'

1.56-module_update: scenery folder 3: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/czechrepublic/'

1.56-module_update: scenery folder 4: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/czechrepublic_buffer/'

1.57-module_update: scenery folder 5: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/edpatino/'

1.57-module_update: scenery folder 6: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/elevation/'

1.57-module_update: scenery folder 7: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/flightXtreme/'

1.57-module_update: scenery folder 8: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/germanynorth/'

1.58-module_update: scenery folder 9: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/images/'

1.58-module_update: scenery folder 10: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/Martinique/'

1.58-module_update: scenery folder 11: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/nepal/'

1.58-module_update: scenery folder 12: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/orbx_ftxnld/'

1.59-module_update: scenery folder 13: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/orbx_lowi/'

1.59-module_update: scenery folder 14: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/orbx_lsgk/'

1.59-module_update: scenery folder 15: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/places/'

1.60-module_update: scenery folder 16: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/tanzania/'

1.60-module_update: scenery folder 17: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/venice/'

1.60-module_update: scenery folder 18: '../Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator AddOns/scenery/xref/'

So Aerofly must remember my custom addon folder.

Zitat von ApfelFlieger

On my MacBookPro it only works if first the splitting into the file types elevation/images/places takes place and then the localization cz/de/dk/usw comes, here at the current example:

.../scernery/elevation/cz/ele_8a00_a980_prague/maph-Dateien

.../scernery/images/cz/img_8a00_a980_prague/map-Dateien

.../scernery/places/cz/apt_8a00_a980_prague/LKPR...Dateien

.../scernery/places/cz/cul_8a00_a980_prague/cul-Dateien

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Interesting… good to known. If this is the case, i need to reorganize everything.

Where exactily is your .../scernery folder? Is it a path mapped by a <[string8][extra_user_folder] entry or is it in a default location (where is the default location on a mac?)?

Merci...

So you had to distribute the different content of my zip file manually.

Ok... so we get not around this. (Although Aerosoft for example do the same as I do.)

Zitat von Hartman

I strongly support using the "download code" from AeroScenery = "09_8a00_a980". Then it's easy to keep track of the areas.

This is also especially important if you want to expand areas.

Well, I think it is not enough-

Not all users using aeroscenery.

I don't use the aeroscenery output directly in the sim, I copy it.

If I look at all areas in the scenery folder I have no clue what 09_45a0_a600 means. And I can definitely not find a specific folder fast if I need to go through many different similar looking folders.

If I am looking in the WorkingFolder of AeroScenery it would be better to use map_ instead of img_. (By the way, you can simply fake an existing tile in aeroscenery by adding the folderstructure by hand.

But I definitely like the extension of _munich so you really quickly find the folder you are looking for.

So that is the way I am doing it.