Tutorial 1 - First Time Start-Up

When you first start Ground Environment Professional an initial backup takes place so that there is a snapshot of your SCENERY\WORLD\TEXTURE folder to return to at a later date if you wish.

After the backup is done the Splash screen will close and you will be presented with the following page;

Here you will see the current status of Ground Environment Professional.  As you can see, no base textures have been installed into Flight Simulator so our next step is to install the base textures.  Click on the install button (top right) and you will be taken to the following screen;

This is the window where we install our base textures.  Select the textures you wish to install from the list.

*** NOTE: "Global Coverage - Day" is the minimum option to see the GE Pro textures and autogen in Flight Simulator 2004 ***

Here you will see I have selected that I wish to install Global Coverage - Day and Global Coverage - Night.  Ensure that if you do not have Ultimate Terrain Europe, you do not select the last two options.

Now just click Save and Install and the Texture Sets will be installed into Flight Simulator for you.

Once the textures are installed you should see in the top section that Global Coverage - Day and Global Coverage - Night textures have been installed.  You will also notice that under 'Current Status Of Ground Texture Sets' (second frame down) that we now have the Default Texture Set installed.

Ground Environment Professional is now at a stage where you can open Flight Simulator and enjoy the Textures that have been created by Peter Wilding and Anthony Vos.  This is the minimum to get started.  In the next Tutorial 2 "Create Texture Sets" we will begin the customization of the environment so that you can begin to see the power of this application.