Steve McClelland's EURO scenery has been around for a long time and has been a very popular download most of CFS2's life. There are other Euro scenery packs out there, but none as comprehensive as Steve's.

If you get BoB from Just Flight, you could run into a problem of seeing two airfields in the same place. I had this problem when I got Just Flight's Vietnam expansion pack. All I did is remove the "Other" airfields I had added to CFS2 in the Pacific that conflicted with the expansion pack. Not that big of a problem.

The problem I found with Steve's scenery is that his individual bases in a large general area are many times wrapped up into ONE large bgl file. When that is the case, you can't just remove the one single base that is conflicting with your add on or expansion pack. You have to remove the whole general area that the bgl covers.

As far as his or any others mesh scenery, that SHOULDN'T be a problem with any add ons or expansion packs.

I would suggest that if you add Steve's Euro packs, you have a seperate folder for just his stuff. That way, you can always deactivate his scenery via the library if there are any conflicts after any additional add ons to your CFS2.

Hi There

it all sounds interesting to add to my flying time . please advise where i can download  Steve. Europack scenery

michaelmichael

Glad I could help. Here is another bit of info.

IF you have installed and are running the ACS-GPS gauge on your acft. then you might want to download my .prg files for that gauge. I used Nav 3.0 to program all of Steve's Euro Scenery for use with the ACS GPS. (with his permission) They are available here: http://www.brennt.com/hoppers/acsgps-pgms.html

You can add scenery in CFS2 many different ways. People have developed their own preferred methods.

IN CFS2 I add all my add on scenery into the Main CFS2 SCENERY Folder. Steve's instructions do say Scene DB folder, but they can go anywhere.

What I did is create Geographic folders in my CFS2 Scenery folder. Example: USA Folder, EUROPE folder, South Pacific Folder and so on. When I get new scenery, I install it in it's own folder. You could create a folder wherever you want to put Steve's EURO scenery and name that folder "Steve McClelland EURO" if you like. In this folder or any titled scenery folder you add, you need to have a "scenery folder" where all the .bgls go and a "texture folder" where any textures the author sent along go. Then activate this new scenery via the Scenery Library. Test it to make sure it works OK. If it does and you want to keep it, deactivate it in the Library and put it into your Geographical folder. I have scenery in Europe and the South Pacific folders from many different creators. Works fine as long as I test the new stuff first.

Now I can't remembe if Steve's EURO Scenery has any special extra files to be installed. If you send me the README via email, I can then tell you exactly what he wants you to do. Saves me from having to download it again.

Ok, pretty straight forward.

You can add this scenery from anywhere you want to, as long as you direct the correct path in the Scenery Library when you activate it.

What you want is one main folder for his scenery. Name it what you want, or leave it the name he has it. Inside this main folder you need two folders.

1] Scenery folder - which has all his .bgl files
**You can put all the bgls from all the EURO packs in this one folder.....  AND
2] Texture folder - which has the textures he has for his download.
** You can put all the texture files from all the EURO packs of his in this folder. These are the textures he is saying "Don't put them into your Main CFS2 Texture folder".

Whatever main folder you put this NEW folder in to, for example the CFS2 Main Scenery folder like I do, it is always a good idea to delete the "filelist.dat" file. When you do this, it completely rebuilds the filelist to include your new scenery. CFS2 should do it automatically, but sometimes it messes up and then you have problems.

Now you can start your game up and hit the Settings button. Then go to Scenery Library and hit Add Area.
Navigate to the new folder (whatever you named it) and highlight it. DON'T open it, just highlight it. Now you should see it in the "Scenery Area Title" section. Make sure "Use this scenery directly" is checked and not "Cache this scenery". Hit OK and you are ready to go.

I don't remember any special "shorline" files with the EURO stuff. What you have is the standard CFS2 shoreline for that area, which isn't very good.

I have seen a some type of shoreline files somewhere. Might even be here in the Scenery section of Downloads. I have even seen a shoreline modifying program too. Sorry I can't help you more with that.

One more thing you might get to really enhance the look of CFS2 is the PacTex Mesh scenery. I have always considered this a "Must Have" for CFS2. It's fairly large file, someplaces even break it into smaller zips. In this download you get textures for the European look or the Pacifice look. They really make this game look so much better.  PacTex is available here:   http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/brigstock/CFS.htm

Good luck bud.

No problem mag_ddave. Now, if you REALLY want to enhance the look of CFS2 there is one more thing I can recommend. Get the cloud textures from FSW.

Go into the FS2k section. These files work flawlessly with CFS2. Go get the FS Sky World Utility in the utities section there. Once you have that, download the different cloud texture sets. In there, I recommend just getting the V3 sets. Place these into the FS Sky World Utility program folders. This allows you to swap to different cloud texture sets and it backs up your CFS2 originals so you can revert back to them at anytime. But I promise you won't want to. These add so much more to your flying experience in CFS2 with some great clouds added. When you learn to set your own cloud layout in Advanced weather, you can get some really awesome visuals while you fly.

FSW site:  http://fsw.simflight.com/FSWMenuFsSim.html

NOTE: These cloud tetures are even MORE frame rate friendly than the stock CFS2 cloud textures.