Centralized Scenery Folder

[OBIO]

A recent thread on aliasing got me to thinking about ways to streamline and trim my CFS2 installs. And tonight I took another step in that direction. First, I went into my installs and removed all the non-stock scenery from the sims (via the scenery library setup thingiemajigger). Then I went into each install and removed all the files for the add-on scenery and placed them into a single folder called CFS2 Scenery. This folder is inside the Microsoft Games folder, yet outside of my CFS2 install folders.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games (Parent Folder)
-----CFS2 SCENERY (all add-on scenery folders here)
-----Combat Flight Simulator 2 (stock install)
-----Prop Test (install for testing and tweating prop planes)
-----Jet Test (install for testing and tweaking jet planes)

Once I had all the scenery folders into the CFS2 Scenery Folder, I fired up the Jet and Prop Test installs and re-added the scenery for those installs. All I had to do was to direct the sim to look into the CFS2 Scenery folder for the scenery packs. Very simple to do, did not take long at all, slims and trims my installs, and will make it easier to share scenery (such as Alpha Sim's Groom Lake AFB...which I use for initial testing of aircraft since it has a huge runway...perfect for heavy bombers and jets) between installs.

I am not sure how much HD space I freed up doing this, but it sure will make maintaining an archive of my scenery much easier.

OBIO

 

[Jaxon]

Less space and less work to maintain & deal with - you got the idea!

I like the idea of having a test-purposed only install.
I never thought about that before

 

[Rami]

This from one of my European installs, to give you an idea:

[General]
Title=CFS2 World
Description=CFS 2 Scenery data
Cache_Size=10M
Clean_on_Exit=TRUE

[Area.001]
Title=Default Scenery
Local=scenery
Active=TRUE
Layer=2
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.002]
Title=Terrain
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\World (ETO)
Active=TRUE
Texture_ID=1
Layer=1
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.003]
Title=CFS1 Library
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\library
Active=TRUE
Layer=3
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.004]
Title=Airport Facilities Data
Local=Scenedb\AFDFiles
Active=TRUE
Layer=4
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.005]
Title=Scenery Ships
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\Ships
Active=TRUE
Layer=5
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.006]
Title=Aircraft Weapons
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\weapons
Active=TRUE
Layer=6
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.007]
Title=Vehicles
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\veh
Active=TRUE
Layer=7
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.008]
Title=Effects
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\fx
Active=TRUE
Layer=8
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.009]
Title=Runways
Local=Scenedb\runways
Active=TRUE
Layer=9
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.010]
Title=Buildings
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\inf
Active=TRUE
Layer=10
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.011]
Title=FS2000_props
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\fs2kprop
Active=TRUE
Layer=11
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.012]
Title=Coastlines
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\Coastlines
Active=TRUE
Layer=12
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.013]
Title=Coast Flatten
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\Coast Flatten
Active=TRUE
Layer=13
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.014]
Title=Global Exclude
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\Global exclude
Active=TRUE
Layer=14
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.015]
Title=SdC's Europe Landclass
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\SdC's Europe Landclass
Active=TRUE
Layer=15
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.016]
Title=SdC's Mesh
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\SdC's mesh
Active=TRUE
Layer=16
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.017]
Title=Europe enhancements
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\Scenedb\Europe Enhancements
Active=TRUE
Layer=17
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.018]
Title=AtlanticWall
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\scenedb\AtlanticWall
Active=TRUE
Layer=18
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.019]
Title=EuroTargets
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\scenedb\EuroTargets
Active=TRUE
Layer=19
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.020]
Title=CFS2 BoB Scenery
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\scenedb\CFS2BoB
Active=TRUE
Layer=20
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.021]
Title=B-17 Bases
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\SCENEDB\B-17 Bases
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=21

[Area.22]
Title=Norway
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\SCENEDB\Norway
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=22

[Area.023]
Title=France
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\scenedb\France
Active=TRUE
Layer=23
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.024]
Title=England
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\scenedb\England
Active=TRUE
Layer=24
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.025]
Title=Germany
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\scenedb\Germany
Active=TRUE
Layer=25
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.026]
Title=Denmark
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\scenedb\Denmark
Active=TRUE
Layer=26
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.027]
Title=Other airfields
Local=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Scenery\scenedb\Other airfields
Active=TRUE
Layer=27
Remote=
Required=FALSE