X Plane 11 Scenery PATCHED Download

Easiest way is to just make a shortcut, have two explorer windows open, one with the actual scenery and the other xp/custom scenery folder. Just mark (left mouse click) the folder you want to add, right mouse click and hold , drag the marked folder over to the custom scenery folder and release, choose create shortcuts here from the menu that pops up when you release the mouse button. Done.

Hi, any reason why you can't just short cut the whole Custom Scenery folder? I often add and remove large amounts of Custom Scenery such as most of Germany or Japan Etc as an example. When I have too much scenery, my plugins start failing, certain aircraft won't start, so removing large amounts of scenery and replacing them with different scenery is my work around until I can get some better Hardware. Otherwise ,I guess it'll be a symbolic link. Thanks for any help you might offer.

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Hey there, so I was just going to hop on for a good night in X-Plane 11, and everything goes well (the startup) until I actually load into the game. The first time I loaded up in a 172 G1000. But the scenery was all flat! So I decided to takeoff to see a better view of the scenery and this is what I got, it is all flat.

P.S. The 2 screenshots were all at different airports...I tried Miami, the same thing, I tried KDWH, same thing, and then I tried loading my KATL airport scenery, and the same thing happend. All flat.

This is a text file that is generated by XP from the Custom Scenery folder contents. If you edit all of your airport scenery files to start a-(current scenery file name) and all of your library files to start b-(current library file name) then delete the scenery_packs.ini file from the bottom of custom scenery, XP will rewrite the file in almost the correct order.

First 4 lines remain as the file identifier

All airports and demo sites next

Then Global Airports below all other airports (this can be much lower in the order)

All library and scenery files next

Then ortho files and mesh files last

Take all your ortho files, make a folder for it somewhere on the new drive (I just made a blank XPlane folder and within, put Ortho tiles, and HD Mesh as separate folders), drop it all in, right click the folders, or main folder, and paste a "shortcut" in the custom scenery folder.

WORKS PERFECTLY!! No issues. I like it very easy to apply and this is what happened to my scenery.ini after install with shortcut for Florida, I will now move the entire othro to my new HD. I don't notice any issues in framerate at this point.

Because by default (e.g. when there is no scenery_packs.ini available) X-Plane prioritizes scenery alphabetically, i.e. "yOrtho4XP_Overlays" will be given higher priority than "zOrtho4XP_*" - which is desired.

Okay, that worked brilliantly. I moved the whole Custom Scenery to my separate HDD, created the directory junction, and added HD Mesh v4 scenery. Updated the scenery.ini file, and made a test flight. Checked the log file afterwards and all loaded just fine without any drop in frames.

I was even able to install a scenery using it;s installer, and it installed right onto the separate HDD. Thumbs up.

1. I've installed a lot of additional airports into my root X-Plane directory on my D drive. Can I just drag all of those over to my E drive and then create the symbolic link, of shall I clean up my scenery.ini file? Ideally, on E, I would like to put the airports into folders of their respective countries.

3. Leaving aside the scenery layering (which I understand) if I broke up my scenery.ini file with page breaks, and the name of the country as a header to make it easier to organise, I assume that X-PLane will modify this?

In general, you can move your "Custom Scenery" folder anywhere you please as long as you create a shortcut or symlink with the same name inside your X-Plane home folder that's pointing to the actual location. You can do the same with individual scenery folders below "Custom Scenery".

Inserting "page breaks" into scenery_packs.ini might be a bad idea as X-Plane might try to parse them (never tested it though). I'd suggest inserting comment lines starting with "#" as separators for better visual structuring. In general I would not recommend editing scenery_packs.ini with anything other than a simple text editor (i.e. not MS Word or a Richtext editor).

Just experimenting with utilizing Ortho scenery and after reading the above still have a few questions regarding file linking / structure when utilizing two drives for Custom Scenery. I currently have an SSD drive (C:) where X-Plane resides (all folders and files including Custom Scenery). I also have a 2TB mechanical hard drive (D:) for the primary purpose of storing Orthophotos.

Second, for the actual Georgia Orthophotos I created a shortcut within (C:) Custom Scenery directly to the VStates_Georgia folder (which includes each individual zOrtho4XP_31-082, etc. folder) instead of to each individual zOrtho4XP_31-082, etc. folder. I then made sure that the shortcut to the (D:) VStates_Georgia folder in (C:) Custom Scenery was ordered properly in Scenery_packs.ini. Unfortunately this did not seem to work. I took a quick flight around KATL and it did not look like the photo scenery or Overlays loaded, just the generic X-Plane scenery. Also, the frame rates were in the mid teens to very low 20's versus when flying around KMIA after installing VStates_Florida my frame rates are in the high 20's to mid 30's. (My PC has an i8700-K and a 1080ti card).

I tried installing SimHeaven X-America for X-Plane 11 but CYLT (Alert Airport, the nothernmost airport in the world) is still on water. I haven't tried X-Antarctica yet. Ideally, I should be able to fly from CYLT to NZSP (Paulus Skiway, the southernmost airport in the world) without missing any scenery.

I like X-Plane better than anything from Microsoft (either FSX or FS2020) so I would be willing to return X-Plane 11 on the Steam return policy and get X-Plane 9 or X-Plane 10 instead, if there was complete pole-to-pole scenery available for those versions.

Since the XPSRTM scenery for X-Plane 9 is no longer available, it looks like only X-Plane 10 and newer have global scenery available, but only if you purchase the non-free arctic and antarctic scenery packs from HSimulators:

With the additional cost of having to purchase non-free scenery to access airports north of +73 degrees latitude or south of -60 degrees latitude, it seems like the best option might be to return X-Plane 11 and get either FSX or FS2020 instead if I want to be able to fly to any airport on the planet without having to purchase third-party add-ons. FlightGear also has free global scenery available but it's buggy on my system and tends to crash (the application as opposed to the aircraft).

I am hoping that Laminar reconsiders their position and starts adding global scenery for X-Plane without needing to install third-party add-ons otherwise they will continue losing more customers to Microsoft Flight Simulator. X-Plane 12 is still in Early Access but Laminar said they are not currently planning to add global scenery for X-Plane 12.

While the stock airport areas don't look bad, general terrain and urban areas aren't so great, so I've installed just about everything I could find -- Orbx True Earth, TerraFlora, SimHeaven, FSGRW with SkyMaxx and TerraMaxx for weather, Global Forests, Arctic/Antarctic and Amazon jungle scenery from X-Plane Brazil, etc.

Now I'm trying to get it all working together and I can't figure out how to arrange everything so I can display the Orbx and stock X-Plane terrain and scenery first and then use the other stuff in areas that those don't cover -- especially in the southwest USA, Asia/Pacific, Africa, and South America. I've used the re-arranger in Orbx Central to get the True Earth areas to be displayed again, but then I have to try and sort out stuff again for other parts of the world.

Here's a copy of my scenery_packs.ini file. A lot of buildings are missing at airports and in cities and there are trees instead of houses. I have XOrganizer and I've tried moving things up and down but I can't seem to get this right. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me nuts ?

Holy mother of god that's a lot of scenery..lol. I too have problems with it myself. I have just a few freeware of airports and some pay-ware as well as SimHeaven America, Europe and Africa. Also using some VStates scene which I think it is conflicting with SimHeaven. Some areas I see just patches of nothing but squares so I am going to remove one or the other of SimHeaven/VStates.

If there's a problem or scenery gets screwed up after an X-Plane or computer crash, the best thing to do is rename the current Custom Scenery directory and then do an update to reinstall and refresh it. That's how I got the stock global airport buildings back.

4.) A lot of scenery packages have "exclusion zones" to suppress unwanted stuff (like trees, buildings, roads, etc.). These exclusion zones can only work on stuff BELOW the pack with the zones (i.e. a tree mesh "above" the airport will not be affected at all).

Interesting, when I go to that directory only "default_pilot.voc" is there, not the zip file you have in your directory. I have also attached my .ini file. I use xOrgainzer for all scenery so it should be fine. Thank you for finding the issue, now we just need to see how to get that file again. Thanks!

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