The OpenSceneryX project is a library of scenery objects for X-Plane® 8.6 and above. X-Plane X-Plane® 9 and 10 are fully supported. It is a collaborative effort by members of the X-Plane.org community and the aim is to provide a good range of high quality scenery components for scenery authors to use in their scenery packages.
Installation
If you're reading this you have already downloaded and run the installer, and you have successfully installed OpenSceneryX. To periodically check for new versions, just re-run the installer and follow the instructions. It will automatically update your OpenSceneryX installation for you.
Documentation
Documentation for every object in the library is found on the OpenSceneryX website.
Use
Normal X-Plane® Users
If you are a standard user of X-Plane®, then you don't do anything else. Installing this library does nothing on it's own to the simulator - you won't see new objects dotted about, you won't see any changes to your default scenery, you won't see any new options in X-Plane®. However, scenery packages developed by other people can now use the objects in this library, so if you have installed any scenery package marked 'Enhanced by OpenSceneryX' then that package will come alive with objects.
X-Plane® Scenery Developers
If you are a scenery developer, ensure you have installed OpenSceneryX and then go to the OpenSceneryX website, download the Developer Pack and read the enclosed instructions.
Contributions
We now have an extraordinary 2323 contributions in the library and still rising
Contributors
A big thank you to the contributors. The following list of people own the copyright on the work in this library, please visit the OpenSceneryX website for their contact details: @lex, Air Northwest, Albert Laubi, Alex Unruh, amerrir, Andras Fabian, Andrew Rerecich, Andrew Santorelli, Atypik Design, audiotracker, Austin Goudge, Barry Roberts, Benedikt Stratmann, benghurk, Bernie Fritts, Bertrand Augras, Birger Christiansen, Bob Feaver, Bob Whitt, Brett Sumpter, Cameron Jenkins, cfm56, Christian Riviere, Christian Rivière, Conan Davis (Vivar), Cormac Shaw, Curt Boyll, Daniel Leygnat, Darragh Hickey, Dave Morley, Daveduck, David Gluck, David Hossack, Davide De Marchi, Denmeul, Dhruv Kalra, Dieter Rosenkranz, Dr. Jose Antonio Sanchez-Duran, Drew Elkin, Dwight Gardam, Falcon, fasm, Geoffrey Hargreaves, gliderace, Hector Tanus, Heinz Dziurowitz, Jacques Brault, James Green, Jaron Latona aka JTron, Jeff Mueller, Jochen Haink, Jonathan Harris, Jose Antonio Sanchez-Duran, Kaphias, Ket, Laminar Research, Luke173, Marco Wolfsmann, Matt Moriarty, Mertzen, Morton Melhuus, mr 3D, Nick Ward, Nilsh, Olbo Laine, Omer, openfootage.net, Pedro MS Alves, Peter Eckart, Phill Scott, Planebuilder, psiteo, Ralf Kutscher, Reuben Horsley, Reuben Mowbray, Robert T. Brown III, Robin Tannahill, Rocket Man, ROMELLA, Ron Somerville, Sergey Dovnar aka Slyder, Sergio Català, Sergio Santagada, Sevo, Shadetreemicro.com, shilova, shizumaat, Splendor Bouman, Steve Mills, The Beluga Project, Tom Kyler, Tony Brown, Vincent McMahon, William Bigio, X-Plane® Freeware Project, XPFW, XPushback Plugin Project and yewenyi.
Additional thanks also goes to Ben Russell (Indi-) for hosting the project management and version control system, to Tom Kyler for testing the Linux version of the installer, to Sergio Santagada for allowing the OpenSceneryX installer icon to be based on his original icon artwork and to the following people for localising the installer: Fabian (Spanish); Olivier Faivre (French); Jordi Sayol (Catalan); Nicola Altafini (Italian) and David Gluck (German).
Would you like to contribute?
At the moment we especially need airport objects - vehicles and other paraphernalia for authors to populate their airports with, but providing it's good quality we will take anything. So, if you would like to contribute some of your own objects to the library, please send a Personal Message to me at x-plane.org letting me know what you've got.
