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== Technical ==
== Technical ==
Scenery for FlightGear is determined by looking at the environment variable [[$FG SCENERY]]. Should the paths in $FG_SCENERY not be valid, FlightGear falls back to <tt>[[$FG ROOT]]/scenery</tt>.
Scenery for FlightGear is determined by looking at the environment variable [[$FG SCENERY]]. Should the paths in $FG_SCENERY not be valid, FlightGear falls back to <tt>[[$FG ROOT]]/Scenery</tt>.


Mixing scenery types is almost universally a bad idea, and is unsupported. In this connection you should note that the scenery packaged with the base package/windows installer may not be the latest scenery.
Mixing scenery types is almost universally a bad idea, and is unsupported. In this connection you should note that the scenery packaged with the base package/windows installer may not be the latest scenery.
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Then you should set up $FG_SCENERY to use the new path:
Then you should set up $FG_SCENERY to use the new path:
* On POSIX Clients<br />set FG_SCENERY="$FOOBAR/Scenery" + FG_SCENERY
* On POSIX Clients<br />set FG_SCENERY="$FOOBAR/Scenery" + FG_SCENERY
* On Windows (FGRun)<br />Go back to the first page of fgrun, and add the $FOOBAR/Scenery folder to the list.
* On Windows (FGRun)<br />Go back to the first page of fgrun, and add the <tt>$FOOBAR/Scenery</tt> folder to the list.


=== Terrain ===
=== Terrain ===

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