Showed up on avsim the morning

[ronniegj]

This looks like it might be a very useful tool -- especially if you can have multiple setups for a single location, ie Nellis - Red Flag, and Nellis - regular setup. Someone smart should have a look, and report back!

Category: Flight Simulator X - Utilities
New! Scenery Config Editor ZipDive! Download

File Description:
Scenery .cfg editor for FSX and FS9. This utility is designed to enable easier editing of your flightsim scenery configuration (.cfg) file. It was developed to allow the grouping of scenery areas to enable your flightsim to run with only the scenery areas you require for that particular flight. This will allow flightsim to allocate more resources to running the program by minimising the amount of scenery enabled. It is hoped this will also improve loading times, but this has not been fully tested. The marker system allows easier identification of scenery's that have been installed incorrectly, and improves the functionality of any editing. We hope you find this handy program useful.

Filename: sceneryconfigeditor.zip
License: Freeware
Added: 4th March 2011
Downloads: 324
Author: Andrew Thornton
Size: 3520kb

Haven't had time to check it out myself, and will probably be a while before I do have time, and I just now found it this minute, so jumped back here to pass the word!

Ron

[james84]

Well, it's not a bad idea!
Anyway, I noticed that it's the aircraft that require most of the time to load!

[ronniegj]

Well, I hadn't noticed much about the aircraft one way or the other, but the ability to load only desired scenery's for any particular secession (ie only retro scenery's, special event scenery's etc) and not load many other not required scenery's would be a benefit. If custom flt pln bgl's and textures were with the scenery files, you could have total ability to customize any particular session. The a/c shouldn't be loaded unless needed anyway, and with a/c the biggest drag on loading is the texture files, I think. So, for instance, today if I want to fly around in Viet Nam, 1968, with appropriate AI, and had no plans to leave the AO wouldn't I save lots of load time by not having to load 2011 civil traffic and scenery world wide? I just thought it bears looking into!

[msm8378]

I could be mistaken, but it seems I read a "white paper" somewhere that stated that FS9 only pre-loads the immediate 32-mile radius of your starting point...be it scenery or ai traffic...and that all other required scenery is added as needed upon travel outside the starting radius....

FSX may be different...or I am missing something in the previous posts, but I see no way that MSFS could load every scenery and every ai traffic available world-wide at startup. The RAM requirements would quickly exceed the capabilities of all but the most "hardcore" gaming systems.

If I am wrong in this line of thinking, clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Mat

[hgschnell]

for fs2004 is also fs_scenery_manager_v1.8 available,
I use it since v. 1.6.

Are there more or better features in sceneryconfigeditor?

[Firebird]

I tried the new proggy yesterday and whilst I haven't gone through all the features, it did highlight two errors in my scenery.cfg that I didn't realise I had. Two entries w/o titles. obviously corrupted sometime ago as my various backup cfgs also had the errors in.. I am surprised that FS9 never complained.

From that point of view it has to be a useful tool. I did try FSCM but it totally screwed up my scenery order, possibly the way I used it, and I had to restore from the backup. So I left it alone after that.

[hgschnell]

I ...

I did try FSCM but it totally screwed up my scenery order, possibly the way I used it, and I had to restore from the backup. So I left it alone after that.

our configurations may differ so much, so it is very hard to say, what is the reason for problems ...

I use it since 2009 with more than 1040 layers and have no problems so far...

[Firebird]

It re-odered the layer level numbers to the same as the area numbers. It did it twice and I confess that it naffed me off so I put it away.
Like I said it maybe the way that I was using it but I wanted it to renumber the area numbers so that they were consecutive but when I renumbered those it automatically renumbered the layers and totally screwed up my scenery order.

I just didn't need the hassle, so I just do everything by hand at the moment.