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Location of AF2 (and other BGL) Files from Developers [FS9]

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Hi guys,

A lot of both free- and pay-ware scenery developers have AFCAD AF2 and occasionally other BGL files installed in the "Addon Scenery/scenery" or "Scenery" folders of FS9, while the rest of the scenery is in a totally different folder.

Is this absolutely necessary? Could these files just not go into the folders with the rest of the scenery for that product (assuming they are not intending to overwrite an already existing file)? It is all referenced in scenery.cfg.

Does FS9 treat files in these other folders differently?

Thanks,

Martin
 
Hi Martin,

I think they should indeed go in the scenery folder of the project they belong to. As long as the layers are setup correctly that should work fine.

I think some designers are just lazy and put everything in the Addon scenery folder, but that makes it a mess in the end.
 
arno said:
Hi Martin,

I think they should indeed go in the scenery folder of the project they belong to. As long as the layers are setup correctly that should work fine.

I think some designers are just lazy and put everything in the Addon scenery folder, but that makes it a mess in the end.
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Exactly - I like to keep my installs "tidy", and I also have an "addon scenery" folder on another physical drive for all my freeware and payware that does not come with an install routine - it will make it a lot easier if I need to reinstall FS to separate as far as possible the addons from the main program folder (or indeed the system drive).

Cheers!

Martin
 
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