Go back to the first page of fgrun, and add the $FOOBAR/Scenery folder to the list. Set FG_SCENERY="$FOOBAR/Scenery" + FG_SCENERY Then you should set up $FG_SCENERY to use the new path: You should untar individual files into the /Terrain folder. In this directory, create two subdirectories: /Objects and /Terrain. In this connection you should note that the scenery packaged with the base package/windows installer may not be the latest scenery.įor this reason it's probably better to extract scenery files you've downloaded into a new folder, which we'll call, for the sake of this exercise, $FOOBAR/Scenery. Mixing scenery types is almost universally a bad idea, and is unsupported. Should the paths in $FG_SCENERY not be valid, FlightGear falls back to $FG_ROOT/scenery. Scenery for FlightGear is determined by looking at the environment variable $FG_SCENERY. Do not forget to press the "Refresh" (German: "Neu Laden") button on the airport selection page, when using the FlightGear Wizard. Simply unpack the downloaded scenery into your $FG_ROOT/Scenery directory, using software like Winzip or 7-zip. In the above examples 'input_file.tgz' should be substituted with the filename of the archive to be extracted (the filename should be completed with the full pathname or any other valid method so that the shell could find the correct archive). If this is not set, you should substitute in the above examples the $FG_ROOT with the full pathname of this directory. In the above two examples it is supposed that the variable $FG_ROOT is set to the root of the data directory. Tar -xvzf 'input_file.tgz' -C $FG_ROOT/Scenery If you are under a Linux operation system and you are not using a graphical interface to extract the tar archive, you can use one of the two following set of commands in a shell terminal. You can optionally use a GUI installer, called FGAdmin, to (un)install scenery. meaning that this location would be E150N20. so you should find the block with W160N20 If the co-ords were 21 N 157 E, you would round it down. If it's in the western hemisphere, you should round it up. Find the co-ordinates (often at the top or right and side, marked with a small globe).Go to the Wikipedia page for the airport in question (for example, PHNL for Honolulu).Here is how to find an airport's co-ordinates: Be careful about confusing N with S, and E with W!! Use the graphical interface to find the appropriate chunk. Downloading from mirrors is often better than the official site, because mirrors are sometimes faster and have more user capacity. On most of the mirrors, the latest scenery can be found under Scenery-1.0.0/. TerraSync is a very useful utility that automatically downloads and installs needed FlightGear scenery and keeps it up to date while the simulator is running. And, last but not least, it can be purchased as 3 DVD set from the official FlightGear website. There is also a 4 DVD set available for download via BitTorent, which can be a higher performance option for those wanting to download the entire world. See Suggested Airports/Scenery for a list of custom scenery projects. They are distributed separately due to their license, or because their level of detail is not suitable for low-end machines. Alternatively, custom scenery is available for certain specific areas.
You can download the official World Scenery terrain from the FlightGear website.