X Organizer

[floydcox]

Is there a similar program to this? It seems to make a mess of my scenery.ini file when i try to use it. I seem to be having to re-order the file manually every day and I am not very good at it! Any suggestions?

[John W]

What type of scenery are you having trouble with? I use xOrganizer and don't have any issues. It puts most things in the correct place and sometimes I have to take things that are under "needs attention" and manually place them where they need to be. It took me a little while to get used to the xOrganizer menus and to understand where things need to be placed.

[floydcox]

If i add a new scenery file/airport file(purchased) the whole thing seems to go 'tits up', mesh files go to middle order and make runways look like mount etna, i have a vague idea of resorting the file but it shouldnt be this time consuming, i have to do it every time i restart xplane. i must be doing something wrong but whenever i restart xplane its all crap again.

[John W]

It's probably because it doesn't know what to do with the files the way you are adding them. I just extract the airports I have purchased to the custom scenery folder and it handles them OK. If you create custom folders under custom scenery it is probably confusing xorganizer.

[opjose]

X-Organizer makes handling the INI files super easy.

However it does not do ALL of the work for you.

You must determine if something is a mesh, airport, etc. and under what catagory it belongs in.

Some Airports consist of multiple layers, in cases such as this you may see an APT layer, an Ortho layer and a Mesh Layer.

X-Organizer has no idea of how you intend these to be ordered.

You should put the APT layer into the proper folder under "Airports Sorted", the Ortho Layer above other Orthos such as Ortho4Xp layers, and the mesh layer above things like HD Mesh (or not, sometimes I put them below so that HD Mesh overrides...).

You need to get the initial ordering correct while going through the file in X-organizer looking for things that are not automatically placed where they belong.

Then as you add scenery, run X-Organizer after every installation session, look for anything that ends up in the "Needs attention" folder.

Ultimately it is merely a tool to HELP you sort things out, though it is VERY GOOD tool at making assumptions.

If everything seems "messed up", then you are likely not using X-Organizer correctly or you have not invested enough time in an initial setup.

Once you get things sorted out, X-Organizer helps keep things arranged properly with little work on your part.

[Tom Johnson]

I use xOrganizer all the time, I wouldn't go without it, when adding a scenery I alwasy check xOrganizer first before starting X-Plane.Sometimes it does take some tweeking if developers do not name directories the way they should.

[floydcox]

Thanks for the replies, I will try to get to grips with it.