What is the right order of sceneries?

[Jesper]

After adding several sceneries lately, I've been thoroughly messing around with the order of them. As well as all the defaults, like 'props' and stuff like that.

And I can't remember which order they were in, before I started.
Resulting in my BC carrier being on top of a huge 'hump' right there, in the middle of the ocean. And putting me and my plane some were in the bowels of the carrier if I choose it as the starting point

What is the best/right order of the scenery elements? Which ones has to be in the top? I can also affect the performance of FS9, if they are not in the right order? Or? :help:

[Motormouse]

generally speaking, objects and airports at highest priority (unless they are library type files such as rwy12/ez scenery,
then just put them in the add-on scenery/scenery folder), then landclass or waterclass, and finally at lowest,mesh;
however....a word of caution...not all sceneries work well with the work of other designers/developers so you may have to mess about with the priorities to suit your own set-up

ttfn

Pete

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Just in case you need the default order:
(Sorry, it's a german/french mixup, but it should do...)

[General]
Title=Décor d'environnement FS9
Description=FS9 Scenery Data
Clean_on_Exit=FALSE
[area.001]
Title=Standardgelände
Texture_ID=1
Layer=1
Active=TRUE
Required=TRUE
Local=Scenery\World
Remote=
[area.002]
Title=Standardszenerien
Layer=2
Active=TRUE
Required=TRUE
Local=Scenery\BASE
Remote=
[area.003]
Title=Afrika
Layer=3
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Afri
Remote=
[area.004]
Title=Asien
Layer=4
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Asia
Remote=
[area.005]
Title=Australien
Layer=5
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Aust
Remote=
[area.006]
Title=Osteuropa
Layer=6
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\EURE
Remote=
[area.007]
Title=Westeuropa
Layer=7
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\EURW
Remote=
[area.008]
Title=Mittleres Nordamerika
Layer=8
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\NAMC
Remote=
[area.009]
Title=Östliches Nordamerika
Layer=9
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\NAME
Remote=
[area.010]
Title=Westliches Nordamerika
Layer=10
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\NAMW
Remote=
[area.011]
Title=Ozeanien
Layer=11
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Ocen
Remote=
[area.012]
Title=Südamerika
Layer=12
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Same
Remote=
[area.013]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Amsterdam
Layer=13
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Amsterd
Remote=
[area.014]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Anchorage
Layer=14
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Anchor
Remote=
[area.015]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Atlanta
Layer=15
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Atlanta
Remote=
[area.016]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Chicago
Layer=16
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Chicago
Remote=
[area.017]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Dallas
Layer=17
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Dallas
Remote=
[area.018]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Denver
Layer=18
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Denver
Remote=
[area.019]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Heathrow
Layer=19
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Heathrow
Remote=
[area.020]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Hongkong
Layer=20
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Hongkong
Remote=
[area.021]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Kitty Hawk
Layer=21
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Kittyhwk
Remote=
[area.022]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Las Vegas
Layer=22
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Lasvegas
Remote=
[area.023]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Los Angeles
Layer=23
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\La
Remote=
[area.024]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Miami
Layer=24
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Miami
Remote=
[area.025]
Title=Luftaufnahme von New York
Layer=25
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\NewYork
Remote=
[area.026]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Niagara
Layer=26
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Niagara
Remote=
[area.027]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Oshkosh
Layer=27
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Oshkosh
Remote=
[area.028]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Paris
Layer=28
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Paris
Remote=
[area.029]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Phoenix
Layer=29
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Phoenix
Remote=
[area.030]
Title=Luftaufnahme von San Francisco
Layer=30
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Sanfran
Remote=
[area.031]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Seattle
Layer=31
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Seattle
Remote=
[area.032]
Title=Luftaufnahme von St. Maarten
Layer=32
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Stmaarten
Remote=
[area.033]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Sydney
Layer=33
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Sydney
Remote=
[area.034]
Title=Luftaufnahme von Tokio
Layer=34
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Scenery\Cities\Tokyo
Remote=
[area.035]
Title=Allgemeine Bibliotheken
Layer=35
Active=TRUE
Required=TRUE
Local=Scenery\Generic
Remote=
[area.036]
Title=Fahrzeugbibliotheken
Layer=36
Active=TRUE
Required=TRUE
Local=Scenery\Vehicles
Remote=
[area.037]
Title=Propellerobjekte
Layer=37
Active=TRUE
Required=TRUE
Local=Scenery\props
Remote=
[area.038]
Title=Add-On-Szenerien
Layer=38
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Addon Scenery
Remote=

[Mick]

If your carriers worked all right before, then here's what you need to fix.

Your carriers probably worked because you had a scenery folder of carrier ocean flattens, or perhaps such a folder for specific carriers. Whichever way it was, the flattens have to be either above or below the carriers in the scenery stack in order to work.

I don't remember which one has to be higher, but see how yours are now and reverse them.

I know that's maybe not crystal clear, but when you read your scenery.cfg file you'll see what I mean.

[Jesper]

Thank you, Gents. You got me on track. Will do some sorting and poking. And hopefully I can resume what I like the best: Carrier operations :woot: