LOD11 Mesh V2 for the entire European Alps by Alain Ragot V2

[Jochen]

Jochen submitted a new resource:

LOD11 Mesh V2 for the entire European Alsp by Alain Ragot - Alps Mesh maximal resolution for FS2004 (19m)

High resolution Mesh for the entire European Alps by famous Alain Ragot
Lod 11 (19m) the highes resolution possible for FS2004
- configured as a standard Scenery to make it easy to enable or disable. Please avoid overlay issues by disabling the previous mesh in that area.
The original BGL compilation remains untouched, of course

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[wolfebee89]

somewhat misleading possibly, because per the readme included in the file, one can conclude that this mesh is for FSX exclusively

Further, if the archived version of Ragot's (c30s) site is referred to: https://web.archive.org/web/20071027080204/http://c30s.alpes.gratisim.fr/ , one can generally reach the same conclusion; unfortunately, the v1 FS2004 download links at least for me are functional but corrupt; they terminate prematurely; v2 for FSX can still be had from web archive without issue, v3 for FSX is no longer available: https://web.archive.org/web/20100305074523/http://c30s.alpes.gratisim.fr/

Do note that as mentioned previously in another thread, Guy Nemoz's VF-Air site http://www.vf-air.com/down.htm has Ragot's Alpes Ouest mesh for FS2004: http://www.vf-air.com/Altirelief-2.zip and Ragot's v2 LOD 11 mesh for FSX: http://www.vf-air.com/MeshAlpes.zip ; Alpes Centre mesh and Alpes Est mesh for FS2004 are no longer available, and which is a pity

cheers!

 

[huub vink]

As you can see at the picture, this scenery works in FS2004 without any problems. And it is definitely not bad.



However I think I will stick to the Alps mesh by Jonathan de Ferranti and Holger Sandmann, which I already had installed. (Available at SImviation)

Don't get me wrong, the mesh by Alain Ragot is really very nice, but its matter of personal taste. Perhaps Alain's mesh just contains too much detail for me.

Cheers,
Huub

 

[Jochen]

somewhat misleading possibly, because per the readme included in the file, one can conclude that this mesh is for FSX exclusively

The file is named "MeshAlpesLOD11 FS9-FSX" , Alain Ragot developed it around 2003 for FS9, and later patched it to match FSX. It works perfectly in both sims FS9 and FSX - this is not mentioned clearly in that website u mentioned. "one" would have been mislead. The original websites are dead anyway.. plus if u would follow the original instructions on the web u mentioned u might cause non wanted mesh overlays/issues in your FS9.
Therefore i configured it as a normal scenery and not as recommended in the original readme "put the bgls in to the main scenery" wondering why u say "somewhat" unclear"
cheers

 

[wolfebee89]

As you can see at the picture, this scenery works in FS2004 wothout any problems. And it is definitely not bad.

View attachment 189468

However I think I will stick to the Alps mesh by Jonathan de Ferranti and Holger Sandmann, which I already had installed. (Available at SImviation)

Don't get me wrong, the mesh by Alain Ragot is really very nice, but its matter of personal taste. Perhaps Alain's mesh just contains too much detail for me.

Cheers,
Huub

The file is named "MeshAlpesLOD11 FS9-FSX" , Alain Ragot developed it around 2003 for FS9, and later patched it to match FSX. It works perfectly in both sims FS9 and FSX - this is not mentioned clearly in that website u mentioned. "one" would have been mislead. The original websites are dead anyway.. plus if u would follow the original instructions on the web u mentioned u might cause non wanted mesh overlays/issues in your FS9.
Therefore i configured it as a normal scenery and not as recommended in the original readme "put the bgls in to the main scenery" wondering why u say "somewhat" unclear"
cheers

many thanks gents! this is rather welcome news! Naturally, I stand corrected with respect to my earlier statements!

While I was a tad dismayed at the outset that the FS2004 iterations were no longer available, indeed, I am now gladdened by the above remarks and @huub vink 's screenies concerning the FS2004 compatibility of Alain Ragot's LOD 11 v2 Alpes mesh for FSX; I have yet to test it out, and will so in due course, but again, much thanks for the HU and the attendant clarifications! Highly appreciated! @huub vink , I am also using Ferranti/Sandmann LOD 10 Alpes mesh, but I suppose now, I will also give this a whirl

Weirdly, I thought FSX mesh files are incompatible with FS2004, as a result of slight differences in the underlying world projections between FS2004 and FSX/P3D-ESP Platform, and presumably there are also differences between FS2004 and FSX bgl files - accordingly, my [erroneous] remarks above - in any case, perhaps with respect to Ragot's LOD 11 Alpes mesh files, this is not the case, but potentially may also explain the overlay incompatibilities with other mesh sceneries in that region and why they have to be removed.

Anyhow, again, thanks @Jochen for making it available here!

cheers!

 

[Jochen]

Hi @ll, in my FS9 scenery addons have different alps mesh too, ready to be activated:
alps valle_aosta_est_vfr by Ferranti
alps valle_aosta_west_vfr by Ferranti
Alps mesh LOD10 CH and Fr by Ferranti & Sandmannn,
Alps mesh LOD10 Austr Italy by Ferranti & Sandmann
ALPES_LOD11_V2 by Ragot
Tested them three all and found the Rago Mesh with entire coverage of whole European alps as my personal favorite. I love to circle through or over the Rocky Mountains of Europe lol
Either with choppers (especially LYNX), Baron 58T, B737 etc - aircraft of different class - for all of them no matter which altitude, the Ragot mesh is providing a seemless entire alps experience. In terms of quality there is no siginificant difference to the Ferranti lod 10 mesh. Anyhow, these 3 guys Ferranti, Sandman and Ragot were even friends to share the same resources for their projects like maps satelite images etc...

The 3 reasons to re-publishing it is to make clear are
1) to show LOD11alps mesh Ragot was developed for FS9 in the first place and later enabled to serve in FSX as well, it works in both
2) configured it a way to en- or disable any time,
3) the websites are dead , one of them provided even a popup sort of virus, which i had to deal with, no thank you.

Here in outerhouse I feel safe und the 3 guys get their deserved credits all the way through:

A toast to the three genius guys Alain Ragot, Holger Sandman and Jonatan Ferranti

cheers Jochen

 

[wolfebee89]

Hi @ll, in my FS9 scenery addons have different alps mesh too ready to be activated:
alps valle_aosta_est_vfr by Ferranti
alps valle_aosta_west_vfr by Ferranti
Alps mesh LOD10 CH and Fr by Ferranti & Sandmannn,
Alps mesh LOD10 Austr Italy by Ferranti & Sandmann
ALPES_LOD11_V2 by Ragot
Tested them three all and found the Rago Mesh with entire coverage of whole European alps as my personal favorite. I love to circle through or over the Rocky Mountains of Europe lol
Either with choppers (especially LYNX), Baron 58T, B737 etc - aircraft of different class - for all of them no matter which altitude, the Ragot mesh is providing a seemless entire alps experience. In terms of quality there is no siginificant difference to the Ferranti lod 10 mesh. Anyhow, these 3 guys Ferranti, Sandman and Ragot were even friends to share the same resources for their projects like maps satelite images etc...

The 3 reasons to re-publishing it is to make clear are
1) to show LOD11alps mesh Ragot was developed for FS9 in the first place and later enabled to serve in FSX as well, it works in both
2) configured it a way to en- or disable any time,
3) the websites are dead , one of them provided even a popup sort of virus, which i had to deal with, no thank you.

Here in outerhouse I feel safe und the 3 guys get their deserved credits all the way through:

Aa toast to the three genius guys Alain Ragot, Holger Sandman and Jonatan Ferranti

cheers Jochen

Nice to know! Again, much thanks!