shally Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Hello, Can somebody please check the order of my scenery layers? (Nick Cooper - are you out there?) It seems strange to me that when looking at the 3-D diagram in the ORBx documentation the vector files add the final touches placing rivers, roads, etc but FTX Central does not place them highest on the list. Is this a mistake. Anyway my order is as follows: 3rd party airports FTX Libraries FTX Airports FTX Scenery & Autogen Areas ORBx Open Landclass Areas ORBx Open Landclass Z Base FSX default scenery areas ORBx Vector (5 entries) FSGlobal Ultimate NG Base files (0000 Base, 0001 Base, etc) ORBx Vector AEC default scenery default terrain Regards, Stephen Shallcross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Hello Stephen, That order is entirely correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rongor Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Am I correct that the Orbx libraries (and also those of any addone provider) can be located anywhere across all the layers? I am also curious, why the Vector data is required "below" landclasses and scenery? As far as I understand the sim actually uses Vector data as decals on top of landclass and scenery but the correct layer structure has it in opposite order... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shally Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 Yes. That was my point. Doesn't seem logical but if Nick says my order is correct - that's good enough for me! (Thanks for the reply Nick). I also wondered about the library entries. Orbx seems to have them at the top whereas some other 3rd party sceneries such as UK2000 instruct us to make sure they are below all their sceneries. Stephen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Hobson Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Logic aside, the simulator reads the scenery.cfg file from bottom up--that is, the last entry in the scenery.cfg is read first, the top entry is read last. Therefore, Vector and Landclass entries must be placed below the airports and scenery entries, because they must be read first. Also, it doesn't matter if Vector is located above or below the LC entries, however many LC entries there are. Hope this helps. We've all wondered about these issues, but there you are. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shally Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 Thanks Stewart for the reply. Does it matter where scenery libraries are located ORBx locates them at the top but most other 3rd party sceneries place them below their other entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Hello, FTX Central places all the FTX scenery libraries in the correct locations. Please do not interfere with this. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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