ATTENTION: IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS, PRINT THIS OUT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. YOU MUST ACTIVATE SCENERY IN THE SCENERY LIBRARY BEFORE IT WILL SHOW UP IN YOUR GAME.
This tutorial is for Scenery Activation after you have already downloaded your files and installed them into the Microsoft Flight Simulator, Scenery folder. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\Scenery\???.
1. Start CFS and start any free flight game that comes up, Fly Now.
2. Hit the ALT key and the menu will appear at the top of your screen.
3. Click on the WORLD menu and select Scenery Library.
4. A window will come up that says IF YOUR NOT SURE..., go ahead and click OK.
5. The next window will be SCENERY LIBRARY, click on Files.
6. The next window will be SCENERY AREAS, click on add.
7. You will now be in ADD SCENERY AREA; here you will type in the path to your new scenery.
8. Type in the box the following, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\scenery\Channel Fleet\Scenery\*.BGL
9. In the SCENERY AREA TITLE box type: Channel Fleet. This will name it for later editing if needed.
10. In the SCENERY AREA TYPE box select Local. (You can choose global or local here. It really doesn't matter for the most part. However, I seperate my sceneries that revolve around the WWII European Theatre from what I call "fantasy" sceneries such as H_Squad sceneries, OR sceneries like Hawaii, Afghanistan that are set outside of the European theater. Local sceneries being European Theater and Global being all other)
11. In the box next to Scenery Area type place a check mark in the
SCENERY AREA ACTIVE
12. Now click OK three times until you are back to the FREE FLIGHT
SCREEN.
Note: I usually leave the scenery layer at 0001 unless it's a scenery that I probably won't be flying often, then I'll make it 0020. Basically, you want your more "important" sceneries to be in the lower numbered layers.
The Installation is now complete!!!
IMPORTANT: ALL SCENERY ACTIVATIONS ARE BASICALLY THE SAME. IN ORDER TO ACTIVATE YOU MUST FIND OUT THE EXACT NAME OF THE SCENERY FOLDER YOU ARE ACTIVATING. YOULL HAVE TO OPEN THE C:\DRIVE FOLDER, THEN OPEN THE PROGRAM FILE FOLDER, THEN OPEN YOUR CFS FOLDER, THEN OPEN THE SCENERY FOLDER. ONCE INSIDE THE SCENERY FOLDER, LOOK FOR THE FOLDER OF THE SCENERY THAT YOU ARE INSTALLING AND TAKE NOTE OF EXACTLY HOW ITS SPELLED INCLUDING SPACES SO YOU CAN ADD THAT INTO THE SCENERY AREA PATH CORRECTLY. IN THIS SITUATION, Channel Fleet IS THE FOLDER'S NAME.
