X-Plane Scenery Load Order (scenery_packs.ini)

Overview

In X-Plane, the load order of sceneries is absolutely crucial! The load order of sceneries is defined by the scenery_packs.ini located in the Custom Scenery folder. It is a plain text file, you can open it in any text editor you like (I recommend Notepad++). The system is very intuitive, packages higher in the ini have a higher priority. That is, a package at the top takes precedence over a package at the bottom.

How to order packages

In general, packages should be ordered in the order of Custom Airports/Sceneries > Generic Airports > Overlays > Meshes > Libraries. (Libraries can go anyway actually, doesn't matter unless they conflict, then the one higher takes precedence). So your order should be something like this

• Custom Airport and Sceneries

• GLOBAL_AIRPORTS

• Overlays (Y <ICAO> Overlay, X-America, Orbx True Earth, etc)

• Mesh (Z <ICAO> Overlay, Ortho4XP, AlpilotX HD Mesh, etc)

Example

Below is an example of how one's scenery_packs.ini might look:

I

1000 Version

SCENERY

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KDEN - Denver International Airport/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KWYS - Forests/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KWYS - Yellowstone/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Codr Designs Library/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/AEP/

SCENERY_PACK GLOBAL_AIRPORTS

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - Las Vegas/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - San Francisco/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - Sydney/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - Washington DC/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Y KDEN Overlay/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Y KWYS Overlay/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Z KDEN Mesh/

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Z KWYS Mesh/