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New LOD 7 Mesh by Rhumbaflappy!

Thank you very much Sir! I installed your 4 mesh files and I can't believe my eyes and on a small 1.7 laptop with integrated graphics too! I used the FS9 files converted by Stiz and it is as every bit as good or better as my FS9 is.

Is there any way to determine while file covers which area(s) in your world coverage? All I'd want is the US only, preferably just the east coast and Alaska.

Thank you again Rhumba
 
Humm, I'm ganna have to give these a spin over the STRM mesh from simviation I have been using...:woot:
 
Mesh LOD5, LOD7... is there any compatibility issues or recommended use of these new files together with SDC's Euro install which i believe many CFS2 users now finally managed to install??

Mort
 
Same question as Morton.....

I have dl'd and will install in my Pacific theater first.
I don't want to do something to MTO this close to getting the Tuskegee Airmen finished.
 
As far as SDC's euro project, his files have flattens that will alter the mesh to fit the FS2004 watermask files he used as reference, so it should work fine...

...but in the long run, SDC's files need to be replaced because FS2004's watermasks are of poor quality. For now they are OK, but eventually, they'll have to go.

I don't think anyone should try to pick and choose which areas to use... it's an integrated world set. dem4km, the LOD5 mesh and the LOD7 mesh should all be used, It's about 1.2 Gb total disk space, and can be used for CFS2, FS2002 and FS2004 ( I think... ). The visual results will be worth it.

If you have space to download all 18 files, then yolu have space to use them unzipped... the zipping only saves about 5% file space, as the BGLs are already compressed.

As far as the default watermasking and airfield locations/elevations... many of them are wrong as well. New flattens can be made to the mesh, but it would be better to make new watermasking ( which I'm going to do ), and new airfields ( or at least new flattens ). I think here is Area16n sloping flattens that can be used to blend in the airfield so the flattens are not so abrupt in bad cases.

Dick
 
Ok Dick thanks for the response to my question regarding defining any specific areas. All I fly in is the Pacific realm and now it is simply a drop your jaw visual experience. I never thought CFS2 could look so real as it does now for me. For me so far this is, simply put, the best add-on resulting in the biggest over all change to the sim scenery I have installed so far.

And to think this is from your hard work and freely shared too? Thank you again very much.

Pat
 
Thanks for the explanation, think i got it. Cant' wait to try it. :applause: And i understand from above there's more coming. It's a new era for CFS2! Will it never end?

Morton
 
Hi,

Where should the folder "DEM scenery" placed? (I have placed it in my main CFS2 folder).

I tried to activate this folder into the CFS2 Scenery Library (setting, add area) but by me it does not work:
See the scereenshots please.

Who can help me?

Thanks in advance
 
langereis said:
Hi,

Where should the folder "DEM scenery" placed? (I have placed it in my main CFS2 folder).

I tried to activate this folder into the CFS2 Scenery Library (setting, add area) but by me it does not work:
See the scereenshots please.

Who can help me?

Thanks in advance
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Did you create a scenery folder and place the bgls there with in the DEM scenery folder? Everything else seems to be correct from what I'm able to seen from your screen shots.


This mesh is fantastic! It really improves things, and looks just about as good as the SRTM mesh from simviation. The Simviation mesh does have a 'slight' detail edge over this mesh, but Rhumba's DEM7 mesh interacts better with with add-on airstrips. For example at Chi Yingkwanjai useing the SRTM simviation mesh there is a nasty mountian wall at the departure end of the runway, with Rhumba's mesh you can now depart the runway and miss the terrain.
 
Hi Wulf190,

Yes I did (I have made a folder named it "Dem scenery" and copied all the bgl.files of LOD7_01 to LOD7_18 included in this folder.
Then I have copied the new created folder into my main CFS2 folder.

:help:
 
create another folder inside that one called "scenery" and put all the mesh files in there :wavey:
 
I checked out FS2002 and FS2004.

Not only do these files work, but they look as good or better than the default mesh files ( as I suspected ). The FS2002 and FS2004 detailed meshes are just oversampled Gotopo30 data... not based on the more detailed SRTM data.

I deleted all my default mesh for those sims and placed the dem4km, the LOD5 and added LOD7. Looks good. No problems.

Dick
 
Just out of curiosity, I deleted all the mesh from FSX, replaced the dem4km,bgl, and added the folder with LOD7 mesh... so that's the only mesh in the sim.

It works.

Dick
 
rhumbaflappy said:
Just out of curiosity, I deleted all the mesh from FSX, replaced the dem4km,bgl, and added the folder with LOD7 mesh... so that's the only mesh in the sim.

It works.

Dick
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Thanks RF, ...outstanding effort.

Do ya think the same "only mesh" trick will work w/ CFS2?

(got enough antiquated stuff in the progie as it is, ...don't need useless and space eatin' scenery)

Thanks again.
 
Blue Devil said:
Thanks RF, ...outstanding effort.

Do ya think the same "only mesh" trick will work w/ CFS2?

(got enough antiquated stuff in the progie as it is, ...don't need useless and space eatin' scenery)
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That's the idea. Get rid of stuff we don't need and isn't up to par.

These files are derived from the best free data, and are made to quality standards and double-checked with Microsoft's tools to insure they are the best LOD5 and LOD7 mesh available for CFS2, FS2002, FS2004, and are probably better than the default FSX.

It's a good base mesh set to build your CFS2 setup on. And it's free.

Dick
 
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