Getting Old Have Dumb Question

[codebreaker]

Guess I've been reading/thinking about beans too much 'cause I got some SERIOUS cranial flatulence going on. I absolutely CAN NOT remember how to use some of the fine FREEWARE terrain meshes available. I know it involves scenery settings but that is as far as I go. I thought it might be in some of the knowledge base here but just canNOT find it.

Somebody take pity on an old guy and point me in the right direction?

[jgf]

From my notes (my memory's shot too):

"Allowing full resolution for custom mesh files
The default setting for the maximum mesh resolution is 75 meters. To properly display
custom mesh change the following line in fs9.cfg

TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=19

The proper values are - 18 = 150m, 19 = 75m, 20 = 37m, 21 = 19m."

I put all my mesh files in scenery\world\scenery; seems to work, and I don't have to make extra cfg entries for them.

[datatrain]

No such thing as dumb question.....
Scenery can be added using the scenery library section. When you start FS and you get to the selection screen... choose scenery library.
It's going to do all the work. Select add from the choices on the right hand screen.
It's going to take you to the folder called Addon Scenery.
If you placed you new scenery in this folder as instructed by the usual read me attached to most files you'll see it there. Then you just highlight the new scenery name from the list of addon scenery in the folder.
Select add and then you will see it listed in the box that comes up.
Choose OK
You must close FS in order to have this addition register. When you restart FS it will rebuild the scenery folder index and you'll be in business.
The advantage of this method is simple. If you have a problem you can easily turn it off without trying to remember what the file names were when you put it in the world\scenery folder. Troubleshooting is simplified.
This advice works best with reeaaaaaallllllllly old guys.

This is of course how this old guy remembers the procedure.

[codebreaker]

Thanks, guys. It's hell gettin old. Course it beats the alternative. Only way I know not to get old is to get dead. Or as Art Linkletter put it "Being over the hill beats being under it."