'Real New Zealand' Paraparaumu Support

[toprob]

Please use this topic to post any issues with the 'Real New Zealand' Paraparaumu airport scenery released recently on Avsim.

I'll post FAQs here as they arise.

First up, I did receive an email from Rex, who had trouble with the installer -- Rex, please contact me again, as my email reply was returned undelivered.

CONFLICTS WITH OTHER PARAPARAUMU SCENERY
Jon Murchison recently released a FSX scenery for Paraparaumu, so if you have this installed it will need to be disabled when you install 'Real NZ' Paraparaumu. Jon's scenery installs two files in Addon Scenery\Scenery, both with 'Paraparaumu' in the file name, so they should be easy enough to track down.

[Timmo]

Yep, for me the auto installer installed the scenery in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X as opposed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery

Not really a biggy

[toprob]

QUOTE (Timmo @ Dec 21 2007, 10:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yep, for me the auto installer installed the scenery in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X as opposed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery

Not really a biggy

This is designed as a 'no brainer' install -- most folk don't want to have to do anything complex when installing scenery, so this is done so they don't have to navigate anywhere else when they come to activate it. The default activation folder is the default FSX folder, and as you can see the new folder there you dont have to go hunting for it -- that's why it goes there.

Also, I have my own views on the use of the Addon Scenery folder, which go back to when this was introduced. Microsoft were pushed to supply a pre-activated folder, so that addon scenery developers could bypass the clumsy activation procedure -- hence the pre-activated Addon Scenery folder. Back then you could just drop your BGLs into this folder and they would work (back then addon scenery normally didn't have texture files:). This became a little less useful when scenery became more complex, and it was too messy to just dump everything into the one folder. Then developers began to use their own scenery folders, and these were normally in the default FS folder. A few vocal users on the net decided that these should go into the Addon Scenery folder for some reason, and this has become common. I don't use it, though, because to me the Addon Scenery folder has its own subfolder system already, and is designed purely as a single, tidy pre-activated folder. Call me old-fashioned...

Actually, it makes more sense to put scenery into the existing Scenery folder system, following the format of Scenery\Ocen\scenery for instance, my scenery would become Scenery\RealNZparaparaumu, or even Scenery\RealNZ\Paraparaumu.

The readme does give a reason for the install location, and I do state that you can move the resulting folder whereever you wish.

[Timmo]

Oh ok- I always assumed that the Addon Scenery folder is where scenery 'should' be installed to....I have no idea why I thought that though?! Just habit/personal preference

Thanks for this scenery btw- Really awesome!....Hopefully ill have a bit of time to finish mine off and get it out soon