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Hello,

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quickly leading to a growing mess.

Your opinion...

Using appropriate folder names makes it clear

Anyway : it's a "free choice"

Kind regards,

This is the best way

I am using this method : works well

Thanks for explaining so clearly Hartman

Many thanks for the video and for dedicating it to me:)

Hope you are better

If I understand correctly the landing gear issue : it appears with all planes even with all graphic settings to the max , right ? ( I will try to reproduce this tomorrow on my sim)

Cheers

Jean-Paul

Hello,

Unfortunately I am not able to build cultivation at the time (despite I have made many ones, lately it crashes every time I try)

Meanwhile I try to fix this problem on my computer could somebody build a cultivation for fema4' s high resolution photo scenery EDDM ?

Thanks and regards

Jean-Paul

Hello Giovanni

Does it happen with all planes ? (if not it may be related with the plane's design : if so not many solutions except if it is a kind of LOD problem wich could be dependent on your graphic settings (Try with maxed settings trying one by one to find "the guilty guy" )

Cheers

Jean-Paul

Quote from Tomfa

All are installed in the C: Document / Aerofly FS 2 / scenery, provided that there is enough space

If not enough place symlink (like Higgy wrote) is the best solution... You build the link to point to the drive you want and you gorget the C: Document / Aerofly FS 2 folder is not on C: anymore...

Cheers

Quote from AOB

For some obscure (to me anyway) reason my system did not appreciate me just moving scenery from one drive to another

It's exactly what I was meaning when I wrote " what other surprises for us ? "

Thanks Pascal

I know this is working but it is different from the recommandations from IPACS described by Hartmann

before :

Recommendations are :

"

IPACS recommends that we do NOT place user addons in the official folder of the Aerofly FS2 (Steam folder). Because it can create clutter - and in addition, the folder structure can be changed in a later update

"

So, anyway, for me : no more problems only different solutions

Thanks for the help(s)

By the way : any idea to manage scenery priority ?

Quote from Higgy

But is there another problem ? ... i only want help

I know and you do help (more than a lot) Higgy Thanks for all

There is not formally another problem but sometimes AFS2's behaviour is hard to understand (at least for me) :

For example if I put the boston_ma addon folder in AFS2's mais scenery folder it works, but if I put it the same way in my dedicated addon folder (created like recommended by IPACS ) it does not work unless I put the images parts and places parts in dedicated subfolders of my scenery's addon folder ! So if in main folder nothing else to do, if in the dedicated addon folder needs "parts management" to work : what other surprises for us ?

Being here I wanted to ask other questions :

If in some area you want to use two different mages sceneries of the same level and resolution (but not the same size), is there a way to give priority to one of them ?

Should the highest priority be higher in the folder hierarchy ? (the lower priority being in a sub-folder) or conversely ? (if folder hierarchy has any effect according to images display priority...)

This could be useful if, like it often happens,the area is quite perfect with one image providerexcept a small area you could patch with images from another provider...

And if this works is it the same for places ?

Also is there a simple way to exclude locally objects (especially cultivation objects) ?

Sorry for te inconvenience if these questions have got replies in other threads

Kind regards,

Jean-Paul

Quote from Higgy

Did you also try to make a symlink with " mklink "

https://www.giga.de/downloads/…ellen-mit-mklink-so-gehts

I think it should do what you want.

Yes this is a good solution if you want automatically put the content of "C:\Documents..." on another drive

Personally I prefer let the installers do their job like they want and to transfer the folder or files manually to be sure what has been installed, so Hartman's solution is good for me : just a line to modify in main.mcf and some precautions in choosing where to put the different folders, but I have my own clean addon folder now...

Quote from Tomfa

That said, it's just a shame that with the Steam edition, that the ''Addons'' directory systematically puts it in C: \ Documents, and that we have no possibility of giving it the order of a other placement path, such as in a drive D, E, F ...

Yes I agree with you Tomfa : never did understand why they decided this knowing that on many computers the system drive is a quite smal*l SSD drive (*in relation with the size of AFS2 addons)

But if the size is he only problem symlink is a good solution

Yes it would be important to know (and understand...) how it works in every case :

Caution if you follow IPACS recommendations described by Hartman :

Recommendations are :

"

IPACS recommends that we do NOT place user addons in the official folder of the Aerofly FS2 (Steam folder). Because it can create clutter - and in addition, the folder structure can be changed in a later update

If we want to install user addons in a location other than the C disk - for me - the following works smoothly:

First I choose my big disk (D, E, F, etc.).

Then I create a folder for Aerofly FS2 freeware addons: D:\extra_user_folder\

Then I open the file "main.mcf" - and type in where AFS2 can find the new folder:

<[string8][extra_user_folder][d:\extra_user_folder]>

Then I copy / move the files (images, cultivaton, elevation, etc.) to their respective folders:

D:\extra_user_folder\scenery"

....................................\scenery\elevation

....................................\scenery\images (contains google-bing, etc.)

....................................\scenery\places (contains airports, cultivaton, etc.).

"

But : if you install addons like Boston from TriSoftSim wich consists in a "boston_ma" folder containing 1 "places" folder and 1 "images" folder :

You have to put the places parts and images parts of this addon rescpectively in your scenery\places and Scenery\images folders of your user folder or it will not work despite it would work if putting the boston_ma folder in the scenery folder of AFS2 main's folder : don't know why , but believe me or not I did try both solutions...

If you fear to mix your addons you can put them in subfolders with the addon's name : it still works !

It works like this for me, "Jean Paul" being mi dedicated addon user folder :

boston_ma's images map files are in : "Aerofly FS 2 Jean Paul\scenery\images\boston_ma" folder

boston_ma's places folders and files are in "Aerofly FS 2 Jean Paul\scenery\places\boston_ma" folder

Thanks Hartman

This also shows how much explanations are necessary...

Thanks a lot Fizzelle

This will be usefull for me and others

But writing this post I was more thinking in other beginners than in myself, so I keep thinking that anyone uploading a file should also give clear installation instructions (i.e. for example more than : "this is a cultivation")

Hello,

First : this is neither a complain nore a critic of Rodeo ' subject I totally agree with

Due to the frequent questions friends of mine are asking (and sometimes I am asking too) I just wanted to bring to you attention that all of us (including myself) who are uploading files should add clear and simple installation steps and readme files

By "clear and simple" I mean that a beginner should understand

I think it is important if we want to increase our "AFS2 community" which would be a benefit for all of us

I think also it is bringing the sharing process to its completion because sharing something if the other is not able to enjoy it does not make many sense

But, as usual, "just my opinion"

Quote from IZ0JUB

Trying to colour match adjacent tiles is almost impossible unless you can download images from one provider and even then they may not match.

With home made scenery its some thing we have to live with I'm afraid.

Kindest regards to all, Michael.

So , in fact something can be done but it is difficult and "time eating"...

- First : I always download from the same provider for one are, but, as you wrote, it is not sufficient (whose who have any doubt look at my photo scenery in SCEL : Same provider and a clear border with two colors each side, separating SCEL in two parts)

- Secondly you can divide the area in tiles in AeroScenery so to have one color in certain tiles and the other in other tiles : AeroScenery allows automatic post-process images automatically BUT :

- You have to make many tries to get a good fit : time consuming (your time, and computing time too...)

- Tiles may not match the border between two colours, ending in a patchwork !

"Royal way" would be to edit the downloaded images before processing them : any idea about how much images between Mendoza and Valparaiso in 2 m/pixel resolution ? The answer is "I am not retired yet "

Quote from ikbenik

Thank you for bringing this vast area of the Southern SthAmerica with al his majestic nature-places

and cities to us, the AFS2 Flightsimmers. Only one little remark: please attention for even coloring the landscape because lining-borders between 2 nextlying tiles, one darker than the other, doesn't look natural at all....see this not as a complaint but as info to matching all tiles together, thank you.

I know : it's disturbing for me too, but unfortunately I am not able to do this for the moment

Will try to learn and to do it after

Merci Pascal

Hello,

Just to let you know that I temporarily take a break with Argentina : i did upload 22 files here since november 24th and have some other stuff to manage ( I am not retired yet )

Actually you can fly from Buenos Aires SABE to Ushuaia SAWH/SAWO making stops in SAZM, SAZB, SAWC : all these airports are mine, availables on fscloudport (where I am "Toorop") and I made also photo textures and cultivation for all these areas (availables on flight-sim.org)

Note that SAEZ and SAME from other authors are also available on fscloudport

I've also made photo scenery and cultivation (called "Cruising Andes)" to cover the trip from Mendoza/SAME to Santiago de Chile/SCEL (fabulous airport made by TomSimMuc on flightsim.org) and Valparaiso SCRD (this also mine on fscloudport)

Thanks to flight-sim.org to allow such efficient uploads and to fscloudport / Spit40 for making available a so "user friendy" tool for building airports

Special thanks to TomSimMuc for the help, the tips, the Mesh and his amazing other uploads (last one being SCEL), and thanks for the same reasons to Fema4 et RWagener

What is missing ?

A lot :

First will be a UHD patch to cover SAEZ and immediate surroundings (crashed yesterday prtobably due to ambitious resolution and surface covered settings...)

After I will work again on the Argentina project to end with the "cabotage airports", their photo textures and cultivations (Trelew, Comodoro Rivadavia, Rio Gallego and Rio Grande)

Would like also to make a lot of small airports in the Buenos Aires surroundings : could be fast as textures and cultivation are done but found 9 airports/airfields without SABE and SAEZ ! and lot of them probably need HD texture patchs to figure properly the grass runways...

I also love the small Alta Gracia airfield but for me this means also to make SACO (Cordoba airport)...

Hope Thomas will extend his Mesh to this wonderfull area and until Humahuaca /Cerro Hornacal : would be nice to figure this 24 colours mountain in a photorealistic area with Mesh...

So, was just to let you that know despite I am making a ereak, I don('t forget the work to do

An be indulgent : 20 days ago I never had done any work for Aerofly FS2 : still discovering a lot of things...

Happy flights

Bordeaux le 13 décembre 2019

Jean-Paul

Hello Ikbenik,

Just tried after reading you:

Works perfect at home with Google Chrome browser. File content is OK

Did you try to refresh the page before trying to download : seems to be impossible to download if more than one request without refreshing ?