What is the Correct Priority Order for Scenery?

[simmersince81]

I know the answer to this question has already been posted somewhere, I just can't find it.

Can someone detail the order in which Add-On sceneries should be placed please?

I use FSX SP2 with Christian's 20m Mesh and Roads & Rivers, as well as RealNZ and other NZ scenery & AFCAD Add-Ons. But my scenery (especially rivers) just doesn't look quite right compared to screengraps appearing on this forum - I'm thinking that perhaps I have things in the wrong order?

One other thing too please (and I'm probably wrong on this score) I consider #1 as the "top" of the Scenery pecking order. but something from the dim distance past tells me that perhaps it is the other way around! So if replying to my query, can you please be specific as to which way round you are ordering things (i.e if you say mesh goes before local scenery is that like 20m Mesh is #1 and NZAA AFCAD is #10 or other way round.)

Appreciate any help. Thanks.

[Naki]

the other way around - mesh at the lowest ie # 10 and then layer stuff on top ie AFCAD #1 (roads and rivers should lay on top of the mesh ie #2) - hope this helps

[ZK-MAT]

I'm not up with FSX but I found the easiest way to remember it was from priority 1 - # thinking as going vertically, with you layering from the top down what you want to see. Like this:

1 - Local buildings and add on scenery
2 - Roads and anything else under buildings
3 - The land, scenery files that put images on the land without affecting the contours of it. Landclass etc.
4 - Local mesh files - elevation of the land, hills etc
5 - Scenery for areas you don't fly to that often
6 - Built in sceneries and photoreal bits n pieces around the world
7 - Meshes for other countries in the order that you feel is important (ie where you actually will fly to)
8 - Other generic libraries and objects

Hope my memory serves me right!