Howto:Install scenery: Difference between revisions

==== Downloading from mirrors ====

On most of the mirrors, the latest scenery can be found under <tt>Scenery-2.12.0/</tt>. Downloading from mirrors is often better than the official site, because mirrors are sometimes faster and have more user capacity. Use the [http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/scenery graphical interface] to find the appropriate chunk. Be careful about confusing N with S, and E with W!!

Here is how to find an airport's co-ordinates:

There is a torrent file hosted on http://www.terasaur.org which you can [http://terasaur.org/torrent/download/ae22ec86209fb14cb143a968be5ba8d3bebd7d6f/Scenery-v2.10.torrent find here]. There is also an alternative torrent (only added a new announcement URL) with a strong seed [http://flightgear.mxchange.org:23456/file?info_hash=%AE%22%EC%86%20%9F%B1L%B1C%A9h%BE%5B%A8%D3%BE%BD%7Do available].

The [[TerraSync]] scenery is automatically downloaded and synchronized as needed while FlightGear is running when the built in TerraSync utility is enabled.

When downloading and synchronizing tiles on lower end machines or when having an unstable or slow Internet connection, TerraSync might cause stuttering and/or slow down FlightGear.  If you encounter that there are a few ways around it:

[[File:TerraMaster r32 - Global view.png|thumb|TerraSync scenery in TerraMaster]]

TerraMaster allows the FlightGear user to manage scenery tiles easily, selecting which tiles to download, synchronize or delete, and viewing the downloaded/not yet downloaded tiles at a glance. TerraMaster is highly recommended not only for managing scenery tiles easily especially if you are downloading and managing scenery from a computer that does not have FlightGear installed. The downloaded tiles are put into a folder which can then be copied into the FlightGear directory later on to complete the scenery.  It can also download tiles directly into the TerraSync directory.

[[File:Asia.jpg|thumb|[[Earthview]] orbital renderer at high sun - with high resolution texture packs installed.]]

[[File:SOTM_2019-04_Space_Sauna_by_GinGin.jpg|thumb|[[Earthview]] orbital renderer at low sun showing light from cities. The [[Space_Shuttle|Space Shuttle]] shows the glow from the heat of hypersonic re-entry.]]

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(August 2020)

Install scenery outside the <code>[[$FG_ROOT]]</code> directory.  See [[#Technical details]] below for an explanation.

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If you are under a Linux operation system and you are not using a graphical interface to extract the tar archive, you can use one of the two following set of commands in a shell terminal.

<code>input_file.tgz</code> should be substituted with the filename of the archive to be extracted (the filename should be completed with the full pathname or any other valid method so that the shell could find the correct archive).

Simply unpack the downloaded scenery into a directory of choice, using software like [http://www.winzip.com/ Winzip] or [http://www.7-zip.org 7-zip]. Once done, append this directory to <code>[[$FG_SCENERY]]</code>. When using the [[FlightGear Wizard]], you can do so on the first page (previous from aircraft selection). Do not forget to press the "Refresh" button on the airport selection page, when using the wizard.

{{note|More recent Windows versions (e.g. XP, Vista, Win7) tinkering a lot with user rights on access level. Therefore it is a bad idea to install and run FlightGear (scenery) to and from <code>C:\Program Files</code>. Find another drive/folder where you, as logged in user, have all neccesary right to read, write and execute the files you installed. Additionally there's a space / blank in folder's name which could cause weird behaviour. Using <code>C:\FlightGear</code> is a nice option.}}

Unpack the .tgz file either by double-clicking it and moving the resulting <code>wXXXnXXX</code> folder to the Scenery folder described in the next line, or on the command line:

  tar -xvzf 'input_file.tgz' -C /Applications/FlightGear.app/Contents/Resources/data/Scenery

FlightGear determines what scenery to use by looking at the environment variable <code>[[$FG SCENERY]]</code>.  There can be more than one scenery path in the variable, for example one path to to TerraSync scenery and one path to custom scenery.  Scenery can be overlapping and a tile will be loaded from the first path in <code>$FG SCENERY</code> from which it is available.

Should the paths in <code>$FG_SCENERY</code> not be valid, FlightGear falls back to <code>[[$FG ROOT]]/Scenery</code>.

Mixing scenery types is almost universally a bad idea, and is unsupported. You should also note that the scenery packaged with the base package/windows installer may not be the latest scenery.

Then you should set up $FG_SCENERY to use the new path:

The Scenery directory will show the following (scenery is shown for completeness and for easy reference to above):

If you download a scenery module called <code>w90n40.tgz</code> from [http://flightgear.org/Downloads/scenery-1.0.1.html flightgear.org] and extract it in <code>Scenery</code>, the result will resemble something like the following:

Note that the directory structure is already present in the tar archive, starting from the Scenery directory. Note that you have to extract the tar archive in the Scenery directory, not in the <code>$FG_ROOT</code> directory, because the Scenery directory is not present in the archive.

Objects and models can be found at the [[FlightGear Scenery Object Database]].

Objects are really part of the scenery and can be found in the <code>Scenery</code> directory under <code>$FG ROOT</code>.

Any objects should be installed under the <code>Scenery/Objects</code> directory.

Replaces the former <code>$FG_ROOT/Models</code>; stores all the shared objects.

{{Main article|About Scenery/Airports}}

As of FlightGear 2.4.0, this directory is used to extract airport data (like runway usage and parking spots) from.

The directory tree might look somewhat overwhelming, but it simply follows the <code>Airports/[I]/[C]/[A]/</code> style.

==Video tutorials on youtube (2020.x)==

{{#ev:youtube|TNN_AZhaHPU|480px||Scenery installation for Flightgear 2020.x by Parnikkapore. Note this is recorded on a non-gaming laptop, and certain settings are not turned up very high.}}

{{#ev:youtube|YxWV4wk_dHw|480px||Terramaster tutorial for Flightgear by FGUK - 2017 but still valid in 2020.}}  

[[Category:Scenery]]