in USERS.
Although these scenery.cfg appear in various directories in FSX, only
the one in PROGRAMDATA is meaningful.
Once you have edited it, it will appear in the "add scenery" within
FSX.
I have searched for the solutions in the web without much success
because of too much misleading information. This is is verified by me.
I don't have any problem with Vista 64, only Win7 64.
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16027
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Smile Solution to "Cannot add scenery"
It seems that quite a few people are having problems installing
additional scenery with FSX and 64-bit versions of Vista and/or
Windows 7
In my case I was trying to add Ants Aussie Airports. The folder was
correctly named and located under the Addon Scenery folder, and
contained the correct Scenery and Texture folders and files. But no
matter what I tried, nothing worked. In the Add Area dialog, pressing
the OK button just blanked out the directory name and did nothing.
So the only solution was to edit the scenery.cfg file.
Under Windows 7 there are two FSX file locations for "user data"
1) C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX
2) C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX
In this case the the scenery.cfg file is in the first location
Save a copy!!!
And then edit it. The last bit of the file looked like this
[Area.137]
Title=FTXAA_HOLGERMESH
Local=ORBX\FTX_AU\FTXAA_HOLGERMESH
Layer=137
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
[Area.138]
Title=OZx_AUS
Local=OZx\OZx_AUS
Layer=138
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
I just added another section like this, making sure that the new
section had the next available area and layer numbers. The last entry
will have the highest area number. Use that number+1 for both area and
layer. Because the layer number for the added area will be the highest
in the file, it will appear at the top of the list. It is a lot easier
to simply put the new entry at the top, and then let the Add Scenery
widget adjust all the layer numbers later.
[Area.137]
Title=FTXAA_HOLGERMESH
Local=ORBX\FTX_AU\FTXAA_HOLGERMESH
Layer=137
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
[Area.138]
Title=OZx_AUS
Local=OZx\OZx_AUS
Layer=138
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
[Area.139]
Title=Ants Aussie Airports
Local=Addon Scenery\Ants Aussie Airports
Layer=139
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Saved.
Fired up FSX and into Settings > Scenery library and there it was.
Sitting at the top of the list. I then moved it down to its correct
position.
So, a very satisfied flyer.
No idea why the FSX widget wouldn't do its job. It's only a simple
edit of a text file.
Hope this helps.
