agathosdaimon wrote in Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:48 pm:okay so what do i do then? i do go and add the individual folders - for NSW one i had to gointo that folder because inside the folder is another folder OUtput and i have to go into tat to get to teh terrain
urrgh - sorry but there are gaps in all the installation instructions i come across so i am trying to figure out these myself
could you help me?
do i just at the custom scenery folder on teh whole?
Sorry that our installation instructions are not as good as they could be. Basically you can unpack the scenery absolutely wherever you want (but not anywhere it would overwrite things you want to keep), and then tell FlightGear the name of the directory that contains the scenery: in this case it will be the full path to the directory named 'Output', so for example 'C:/Whatever/Stuff/FG-AU/CustomScenery/NSW/Output' (depending on where you unpacked it of course).
agathosdaimon wrote in Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:28 am:okay i think i put everything in the right spot however Sydney CBD looks quite bizarre- strangely elevated roads and no harbour bridge, opera house or Telstra tower
is this right? or did i do something wrong?
That looks about right. Nobody has created the Sydney Harbour Bridge, feel free to have a go. The opera house should be there, but that must be downloaded separately, from the normal flightgear 'Scenery' server. Note the two uses of the word 'Scenery'. In FG it tends to mean 'objects placed on the ground' but it can also sometimes mean 'the terrain'. What you've downloaded from FG-AU is just the terrain.
The funny elevated roads are just what the osm2city tool generates (not sure where the buildings went to, they should also be there somewhere). Obviously the close-up scenery is not that good, but it is a lot better than the default flightgear scenery. Go and check out the cliffs as you fly south from Sydney!