PTO Scenery Hierarchy Notes 1

[UncleTgt]

UncleTgt submitted a new resource:

PTO Scenery Hierarchy Notes - A collection of screengrabs & notes to help with the hierarchy of add-on sceneries for the PTO

CFS2 PTO Scenery Library Hierarchy

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This example is my Test Install circa FEB 2025.

It uses 75 layers (though not all are active).

I have all add-on scenery packages held in a dedicated separate folder structure (called "3rd Party Scenery"). For each different install, I navigate to this location, select the sceneries I want to use, & then activate them as I need them. This avoids having to keep multiple copies of each package, saving space &...

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[Fibber]

UT; Since no one else has, let me be the first to say THANK YOU ! for this guide. It should save a lot of bandwidth, fustration and brain banging. Again THANK YOU !!!

 

[Captain Kurt]

Thanks John

 

[Ludo]

Thank you Uncle, a really useful guide, I'm gonna check if my scenery.cfg is in the right order

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

VERY useful indeed! Thanks, Uncle .

 

[Worthless]

Yes, I agree, very helpful. As always, many thanks!

 

[Fibber]

UT, Thank you ! for the guide, especially the scenery hierarchy. It took my addled brain a little while, and quite a few drops to blackness, to realize that having the 87 Days Campaign goes along way to really making it work right. As a certain person, whose named cannot me mentioned, used to say **** ! in this case the Read-me . Sooooo, after reading I must report THANK YOU ! Now , I will revert and ask a maybe stupid question here. Do Rhumbas new regions of the world work here , and if so where in the Hierarchy do they go? Inquiring minds are wondering.

 

[UncleTgt]

Fibber,

Never tried them.

I would suggest that they would sit around wher I have Rhumbas CFS2 Tropical landclass in the hierarchy, as they're regional landclass files.

The hard work would be putting texture sets together - especially difficult unless you know which landclass numbers are used, & therefore which texture bitmaps would be active...

 

[Fibber]

UT, Thanks for the info. I was just curious about them and how they would fit. Guess they will go to the sideboard for now.

 

[UncleTgt]

Fibber,

I gave you a bum steer regarding Rhumbas Regions.

The download at SOH includes full texture sets for each region.

However

They are rather "generic" & neon green...




Pics are using Region S for NW Thailand, whilst I work on the strips at Mae Sot & Raheng.

The Regions seem to match those from FSX, so whilst tweaking the texture set might be useful as an underlay for the CBI, the landclass will be " modern". It will lack variety, & the cities/town will be way too expansive for WW2 period.

I might persevere with it as a replacement for CFS2 Tropical in a CBI install. It would save me time creating detail landclass patches just for the areas of interest ...

 

[kdriver]

Fibber & John,

The regional texture sets provided are all the same - the default CFS2 ones.

I tried out the northern Australia Region Y and found there was little variation in the terrain when using either Otis's PacTex2 or Aussie's AusTextures.

I reverted to the stock CFS2 land class.

 

[UncleTgt]

Doh!
Why didn't I see the similarity to the stock textures...

I guess we could lose the ...h... textures for all the Regions outside the SWPTO area - that would reduce the size a bit.

I'll play around with the S Region a bit more...

 

[Fibber]

UT; No problem, at the price of beef I'll take a bum steer anytime ! Actually I inserted them via the scenerydb and I thought they looked a little like the generics. You just validated that my eyesight is not that bad with my glasses on. Guess I will look for something a little more jungleish.

 

[stuart277]

Hi UncleTgt
Thank you very much for this much needed resource.

Cheers
Stuart

 

[UncleTgt]

Did a bit more work on Rhumbas Region S textures. The landclass used isn't as good as the one he created for CFS2 Tropical (e.g. the town of Tak, 2 miles W of Raheng aerdrome in NW Thailand is missing from Region S, but IS in CFS2 Tropical), but it might be useable as a background landclass with the right texture set...

 

[kdriver]

Looking great John! How do your ground textures look with the default CFS2 landclass?