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Mesh ...... yet again!

AndyG43

AndyG43

SOH-CM-2023
Picking up on a comment by AVP in the Malta 62 announcement:

"Mesh is important for the cliffs, especially around the waters at Hal Far. Ian and I use different mesh (I use Global 2010 payware) and was able to achieve shear cliffs at the waters edge as in real life but with Ian's mesh he had water climbing up the cliffs so we did our best to compromise in getting cliffs set back a bit to stop the water climbing up the sides of the cliff but again, users have different meshes or none at all so your results can be different."

What mesh is available for us FS9 dinosaurs these days? Back in the day I used to have a "Lifetime Membership" with FSGenesis but, to borrow from Douglas Adams, this was obviously some strange usage of the word 'lifetime' that I wasn't previously aware of; and the FSGlobal 2010 mentioned by AVP is also long gone. I know there are some good freeware meshes out there (the Yohann Baptiste over at Avsim are a prime example), but coverage is far from global; and I know, for global terrain mesh there is 70m mesh over at SimV, irritatingly split into 100s of sections. If that is the only game in town I'll settle in for a long & tedious download session, but I was hoping there were easier, more complete alternatives either freeware, like FreemeshX Global I use in my FSX install, or payware. I've read through Obio's "Making FS9 look great for free....." thread, but a lot of that is not applicable either. All advice appreciated.
 
@wolfebee89, I'm downloading quite a few meshes from Avsim, Giovanni Miduri is most certainly in the mix. There is good coverage of Europe, the Americas & South East Asia, but that still leaves a lot of gaps which are difficult to fill with the absence/demise of Flightsim, hence my looking for decent global coverage.
 
AndyG43 said:
@wolfebee89, I'm downloading quite a few meshes from Avsim, Giovanni Miduri is most certainly in the mix. There is good coverage of Europe, the Americas & South East Asia, but that still leaves a lot of gaps which are difficult to fill with the absence/demise of Flightsim, hence my looking for decent global coverage.
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unfortunately with respect to your original remarks, your best bet would be second hand shops where global mesh is concerned, as there is no complete digital package still on the market and/or freeware:
Pilot's FS Global 2010 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267647507503
Pilot's FS Global 2008 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/178285552147
Pilot's FS Global Special Edition circa 2005 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/188841055686
or the more antiquated MyWorld Complete by FSQuality / Burkhard Renk https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325260073293
 
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Which is why I'm still using SimV. :wavey:

FS2004 70m Terrain Mesh

FS2004 70m Global Terrain Mesh for The Whole World
simviation.com

It isn't perfect or photo-grade but I got used to using these BGL's back in the FS2002 days and they still do what I want.
Slightly better city details, much better small-town and roads representation than Stock, and pretty painless to install.

Just look up the file you'll need then right-click on that file and use "Save As".

To be honest, I've never been that impressed with "photo scenery". Its great if you're flying VOR in a small area, afer that it becomes very limiting.
 
"the mesh i use is rhumbaflappy's LOD8 and LOD7 CFS2 mesh in our own library, its for CFS2 but works perfect in FS9"

Many thanks Ian, never too old to learn. And the other LOD's, do they also work in FS9?

hertzie.
 
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