Advanced¶

Manually Installing Sceneries¶

TVSD can also manage manually installed sceneries. But scenery folders should be in proper format. Under the installation directory.

In order to install a scenery manually create a folder under installation directory with said sceneries ICAO code. Ex: LTBA. Then copy the scenery and texture folders to here.

Example Directory Structure.¶

...\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons
    turkish virtual scenery downloader (or set add-on name)
        LTAC
        LTFM
            scenery
            texture
            effects
        LTBA
            scenery
            texture

Important

After manually installing the scenery and running TVSD, scenery will be added at the end of the scenery list. It will be deactivated by default and have EXTERNAL | NO MANIFEST warning.

For how to activate scenery check Activation

Info

TVSD will add effects to add-on.xml only if said effects are in same directory with scenery folder. See Example Directory Structure.

Scenery Creators¶

TVSD intelligently searches scenery archives for a scenery folder.
As long as it is in same directory as scenery, TVSD is also able to process texture and effect (or effects) folders.
If there is no scenery folder found, it will run the first *.exe file in the directory.
If non of the above is provided, after unpacking the archive, TVSD will open explorer window to archive contents for manual installation from user.

Example `.zip` or `.rar` archive file structure.¶

LTFM v2 2020
    scenery
    texture
    effects
readme.txt
Additional Effects
    ...

TVSD will carry all unrecognized content to etc folder to the installation directory.

Example installed scenery¶

LTFM
    scenery
    texture
    effects
    etc
        readme.txt
        Additional Effects
            ...