How to install scenery?

[ster100]

I sometimes want to install scenery in fs2020.
But what are the rules?
Just in the community folder?
Or...

[NFM]

As far as I am concerned, yes. Just paste the folder into your community folder. Should work for most of the sceneries. If you have to install it differently, it is probably said somewhere.

[davidc2]

If the devolper needs it to go to a specfic location, other then the Community Folder, hopefully the installer will put it where it needs to go.

 

Most of the time, just copy and paste it into the Community Folder and you should be good to go  

[grimsel]

On top of what has been said before:

 

In the early days of MSFS there were reports, that having several modellib.bgl files under the community folder might lead to instabilities. Ever since then I followed the rule to check the modellib.bgl file name (general under ...\community\add-on-scenery-directory\scenery\mycompany) and rename it to something unique, then edit the corresponding entry in the layout.json file (under ...\community\add-on-scenery-directory) so that it reflects the name change I made (add-on-scenery-directory as placeholder for the real add-on name).

 

I do not know, whether this still valid or whether one of the SUs which were released since then have changed something with respect to this issue - but if it does not help to maintain a stable system, it does at least not do any harm.