Category:Scenery Development

The main X-Plane scenery development website is: http://scenery.x-plane.com/ There you will find tools, file formats, tutorials, etc. We are in the process of transitioning the website, so some documentation is on this Wiki, while others are on http://scenery.x-plane.com/.

Be sure to also check out the X-Plane Scenery Blog for articles and notes on the scenery system.

= Documentation =

The following articles are divided into four groups. Each group builds on the one(s) before it; for instance, articles in the third group assume you have read both the first and the second groups.

Read These First
These are the absolute essentials, and should be read as a whole before moving on to any other scenery docs.


 * Getting Started with X-Plane Scenery
 * Anatomy of the X-Plane Scenery System

For Users New to the Scenery System
This is all of the knowledge that the average person would need to customize their favorite airports with objects, orthophotos, and so on.

For Advanced Scenery Authors
This is for authors who really want delve in deep in customizing their scenery.