Making the Grand grander

[OBIO]

Grand..as in Grand Canyon. I like to fly through the Grand Canyon at least once a week...sometimes low and slow, sometimes low and fast (like in one of Iron Eagle movies). Today, I installed some dedicated Grand Canyon mesh and some replacement cliff textures...and boy oh boy, the Grand is grander.

The mesh is by Tom Finley and can be found on Flightsim.com as gcned30m.zip.

The replacement cliff textures are by Ben Hartnett and I either got them on Simviation or Flightsim.com. The zip name is newcliffs.zip. This package contains 4 types of cliff textures.

Orange: which is used around the Grand Canyon and the South Western part of the US,

Dark Gray: used in Asia and New Zealand

Then two other sets, Brown and Light Gray. These two packs are used world wide and can not be installed at the same time as they have the same file names.

I have only checked out the Orange (Grand Canyon) ones so far...but they are NICE!

I am attaching some screenshots showing the FS9 stock Grand Canyon, then the canyon using Rhumbaflappy's mesh and the GW3 textures, then 4 showing the Grander Canyon with the new mesh and cliff textures.

For free upgrades, these are well worth the small amount of time downloading and installing.

Tim

 

[bpfowler]

nice find OBIO! I shall give these a try, and thanks as always.

brady

 

[Tom Clayton]

Downloading the mesh now - hopefully it'll fix those walls of water I get using the freeware FSG mesh.

 

[bpfowler]

got the mesh, but I havent found the textures at simviation or flightsim...is it moi?

 

[OBIO]

Here's a link to the replacement cliff textures on SimV:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/syb2.cgi?section=scenery&file=newcliffs.zip