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Mesh Question

dandog

dandog

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OK folks, I'll show you how smart I am: Do I want to place Rhumbaflappy's LOD7 mesh in "Addon Scenery" and activate it in scenery, or place it into the "Addon Mesh" folder? Or, does it make a difference?
 
Hi,

OK folks, I'll show you how smart I am: Do I want to place Rhumbaflappy's LOD7 mesh in "Addon Scenery" and activate it in scenery, or place it into the "Addon Mesh" folder? Or, does it make a difference?
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No difference at all.
Granted you activate the mesh with the scenery library (as usual) by pointing to the right folder.
So you can install the mesh folder in any place even in
C:\mylittlepony\MeshLOD7 :)
 
And here's a link to a thread I started on Rhumbaflappy's LOD8 mesh, which covers about 1/3 of the planet (nearly all of the Pacific, most of Europe and a good portion of North Africa).

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=23958

Rhumba's LOD5 and LOD7 mesh enhances the entire world way way beyond stock mesh and makes it look good! The LOD8 (Rhumba called it Dem8) takes the covered areas and improves them even more.

When all the files for the LOD5/7 are installed, you are looking at about 1.3 gig of files. When all the files for the LOD8 mesh is installed, you are looking at another 1.3 gig or so of files. 2.6 gigs of files that make FS2004 look amazing...and all they cost is the time to download and install.

OBIO
 
I have Rhumbaflappy's LOD5/7 mesh in a dedicated folder outside of my sims, and his LOD8 in another dedicated folder outside of my sims. I set it up this way to allow for the sharing of the mesh between my numberous installs of FS9 and CFS2. I can activate the LOD5/7 independently of the LOD8 or active them both or deactivate them as I want/need to.

Here is how I have all of my addon scenery/mesh set up:

I have a folder inside of my Microsoft Games folder called MASTER SCENERY. Inside of that folder I have a number of other folders, each holding the files for one batch of scenery. Each of the scenery packs that came with one of Bill Lyon's aircraft has its own folder, each of Leon Louis's scenery has its own folder...this way I can activate each scenery independently of the others.

Also within the Microsoft Games folder, I have a folder for Rhumbaflappy's LOD5/7 mesh and one for his LOD8 mesh.

Having all my mesh and scenery outside of my sims allows me to use on install of the files for all of my sims.....saves a lot of HD space, makes it easy to select which mesh/scnery I want to use in each of my various installs.

OBIO
 
To quote Elvis, "Thank you very much!" Looks like I have some reading ahead of me.

Claudius24, have you been looking at my file folder tree? (C:\mylittlepony\MeshLOD7)
 
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