china mesh for fs9
- Thread starter bpfowler
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bp
Here's what I did...I fired up AFCAD and made two very very simple airports along the N Korea and China border....the runways were about 200 feet above the ground...very simple. About 60 miles apart. Then I took off from the South Western most one and flew toward the North Eastern most one....basically following a line along the NK/China border. Lots and lots and lots of rolling hills...which is consistent with the elevations that Google Earth showed when I drug the cursor along the NK China border...eletations were below 1000 feet for the most part, and some areas were not that far over sea level....Rhumbaflappy's LOD5/7 mesh seems to depict this area pretty well.
I took a good number of screen shots and am uploading them to a folder on Photobucket. As soon as they are up, I will hop back in and supply a link to that folder so you can check them out.
http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd251/OBIOandSharkbait/Flight%20Sim%20Images/N%20Korea%20China%20Border%20Flight/
The flight I took was along the south western part of the China NK border. The northern sections of the border seem to have higher elevations....I will set up a couple airstrips for that section of the border and report back with details.
OBIO
Here's what I did...I fired up AFCAD and made two very very simple airports along the N Korea and China border....the runways were about 200 feet above the ground...very simple. About 60 miles apart. Then I took off from the South Western most one and flew toward the North Eastern most one....basically following a line along the NK/China border. Lots and lots and lots of rolling hills...which is consistent with the elevations that Google Earth showed when I drug the cursor along the NK China border...eletations were below 1000 feet for the most part, and some areas were not that far over sea level....Rhumbaflappy's LOD5/7 mesh seems to depict this area pretty well.
I took a good number of screen shots and am uploading them to a folder on Photobucket. As soon as they are up, I will hop back in and supply a link to that folder so you can check them out.
http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd251/OBIOandSharkbait/Flight%20Sim%20Images/N%20Korea%20China%20Border%20Flight/
The flight I took was along the south western part of the China NK border. The northern sections of the border seem to have higher elevations....I will set up a couple airstrips for that section of the border and report back with details.
OBIO
You could also look at Global Terrain Mesh at Simviation
The whole package is large a little over 8 GB but you down load it in sections so you can get what you want when you want.
Most individual .bgl files are around 12 mb.
Its LOD 9 or 70m. It covers from N60 latitude to S60 latitude for the whole world.
It is based on Shuttle Radar Mapping Missions that were done a few years ago.
Its here
http://www.simviation.com/fsdterrainsrtm.htm
Read the read me and down load the file map to figure out which files you need for Asia.
I did not follow the instructions to install it.
Just take the .bgl files and put them in a folder in the addon scenery folder
C:\{path to flightsim}\FS9\Addon Scenery\{new folder}\scenery\{downloaded .bgl files}
activate them as you normally would in FS.
This way they are very easily removed or disabled if need arise.
I used multiple folders for the whole install
North America
South America
Africa
Euro-Asia (because numerically the file numbers stretch over the two continents in a line)
Islands
Australia
Each one is its own folder so I can disable or enable sections at will.
The whole package is large a little over 8 GB but you down load it in sections so you can get what you want when you want.
Most individual .bgl files are around 12 mb.
Its LOD 9 or 70m. It covers from N60 latitude to S60 latitude for the whole world.
It is based on Shuttle Radar Mapping Missions that were done a few years ago.
Its here
http://www.simviation.com/fsdterrainsrtm.htm
Read the read me and down load the file map to figure out which files you need for Asia.
I did not follow the instructions to install it.
Just take the .bgl files and put them in a folder in the addon scenery folder
C:\{path to flightsim}\FS9\Addon Scenery\{new folder}\scenery\{downloaded .bgl files}
activate them as you normally would in FS.
This way they are very easily removed or disabled if need arise.
I used multiple folders for the whole install
North America
South America
Africa
Euro-Asia (because numerically the file numbers stretch over the two continents in a line)
Islands
Australia
Each one is its own folder so I can disable or enable sections at will.
news item:
Turns out I can go to FSGenesis and get a fall special of the Whole World on dvd for fs9-- at 9LOD-- for 50 bux or join as a lifetime galaxy member for 90 bux, both big savings.
Justin's mesh demos are great.
any opinions on the FSG experience? the last thing I paid money for was the maam sim dc-3.
thanks
brady
Turns out I can go to FSGenesis and get a fall special of the Whole World on dvd for fs9-- at 9LOD-- for 50 bux or join as a lifetime galaxy member for 90 bux, both big savings.
Justin's mesh demos are great.
any opinions on the FSG experience? the last thing I paid money for was the maam sim dc-3.
thanks
brady
everyone who has FS Genesis that I know loves it.
Its a good foundation on which to build the world.
Myself I don't have it but it has been on the list of things to get.
Its a good foundation on which to build the world.
Myself I don't have it but it has been on the list of things to get.
srgalahad
Charter Member 2022
I went with the FSG world on disks and can't say a bad thing. The mesh is great, the install was flawless and it's nice to have the disks (plus you can get a jump by downloading while you wait for the mail).
The membership is a personal decision, but if you think it's worth "buying futures" then it has some advantages.
Also, note that FSG is bringing out a new set of mesh for the far north shortly that should be a huge advance over what MS gave us for the polar regions
http://www.fsgenesis.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc
Rob
