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New LOD 7 Mesh by Rhumbaflappy!

Fibber

Regarding airbase.dat files.

I have three identical airbase.dat files for my ETO, MTO and EF installations. I only have scenery pertinent to each theatre activated. The unused airbase.dat entries, e.g. Kursk in my MTO installation, do not cause any problems.

Kevin
 
I have an install of CFS2 going again....going to use this install as my master copy and will get it set up with effects, textures and Rhumba's new mesh...then burn the whole shebang to DVD as use it for future installs...just copy and paste as many times as I need.

Have the LOD5 files placed in the World/Scenery folder and the Dem4km.bgl file placed in what ever folder I found it in (can't remember now....getting old and the memory is starting to go).

Have the LOD7 files set up to share amongst installs...and FS2004. I have added it to the CFS2 scenery using the Scenery Add Screne......but have no idea where is should be moved to in the list. Does it go at the bottom just above stock scenery, someplace in the middle, at the top?

This is the first mesh I have added for CFS2.....I'm a painter, not a gardener.....so have no clue!

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
I have an install of CFS2 going again....going to use this install as my master copy and will get it set up with effects, textures and Rhumba's new mesh...then burn the whole shebang to DVD as use it for future installs...just copy and paste as many times as I need.

Have the LOD5 files placed in the World/Scenery folder and the Dem4km.bgl file placed in what ever folder I found it in (can't remember now....getting old and the memory is starting to go).

Have the LOD7 files set up to share amongst installs...and FS2004. I have added it to the CFS2 scenery using the Scenery Add Screne......but have no idea where is should be moved to in the list. Does it go at the bottom just above stock scenery, someplace in the middle, at the top?

This is the first mesh I have added for CFS2.....I'm a painter, not a gardener.....so have no clue!

OBIO
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Let me help you Obio,

all addon meshes should always be placed just above the default terrain at the bottom of CFS2 scenery library.

It's #2 lowest priority, as it should lay "underneath" everything else like addon water, addon coastlines, coastline flattens, airfield sceneries and so on.

If you think about it it makes sense, the ground sits underneath everybody else's feet.

I hope this helps. :wavey:

Cheers!
KH :ernae:
 
Thanks Keltic....that does make sense. Through pure dumb luck, that is exactly where I ended up putting the new mesh....and boy oh boy, does CFS2 look amazing! Looking forward to seeing what the new LOD9 mesh does for this grand ol' sim.

OBIO
 
Help Bearcat!

bearcat241 said:
Hmmm....Smash, your instruments and target displays in those pics are almost identical...only a 22 secs or so between the shots according to your clock, and your heading and altitude are nearly the same in both, not to mention that your target pointer cones also have the same bearing. Where did you find the opportunity to unload the QC session with the default mesh, reload the sim, activate the new mesh, exit the sim and reload the the sim again with the same QC session???? Maybe your scenery activation technique is in need of a little tune-up.

Morton, the only major change i can see necessary in the tut would be to replace instructions for adding Josiah Haut's mesh with instructions for Rhumba's Dem7 package.

Check out Lasanga PNG...loaded with Rhumba's mesh and coastal flattens active:

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Bearcat,

These screens look outstanding!! Mine doesn't look near as good. I have two questions.....could you possibly post your scenery cfg so I can check it against mine? I know there may be different entries, but I'm more concerned with the order especially where I put the DEM7 mesh in relation to the rest. Also, what version of Stiz's textures are you using? I believe he has version 1-4 in the add-on section. Thanks in advance!

Optix
 
Optix, i really didn't do much of anything more than add everything according to Dick's instructions. I already had a great mesh work done by Rolf in this area for a long time:

CFS2/FS2002 Western
New Guinea Mesh v1.4
High-resolution, hand edited mesh
for West New Guinea in the
former Dutch East Indies.
LOD 9 3.75 arc second resolution.
The single bgl file covers
the entire area.
By Rolf Keibel (VF2_Rolf)

(available at Simviation)

I keep Rolf's mesh in a combined PTO/Asia mesh folder named "PAC-INDOCHINA MESH", which you will see in my scenery file. But i didn't disable this pre-existing mesh per Dick's instructions. I just put Dick's in the folder listed as "Worldwide LOD7 Mesh" and moved this folder below the Pac-Indochina folder in the ladder. This puts it as Layer 2 just above the Default Terrain Layer 1 and makes my Pac-Indochina mesh Layer 3.
 
Thanks Bearcat.....

.....for the quick response. :jump: Hate to be a pain, but do you recall which version of Stiz's texture ?? :help: Thanks!

Mike
 
Fellas I hate to sound stupid...but here goes.I unzipped the mesh to a separate folder and have tried to install them into the scenery library but it doesn't recognize the folder.I know I am making a simple error,but don't realize what.I have the LOD 7 scenery folder in the addons folder. I am in the process of making 3 installs and I have a ton of hard drive (850 gigs) space so I have the LOD 7 copied to each install:help:
 
Kdriver;
Thanks for the comeback. I have no problem with the different airfields in one .dat. Where I have been getting perplexed is that some of the new airfields use the same identifer number , Not the runway numbers , several times. ie; ID=8064 etc. They also are named different so it is hard to make one ETO airbase.dat encompassing ALL of the add-ons airbase. That is what is confusing me. My PTO and Korea are working great.
 
Fibber,

I see what you mean now. That can be a problem.

I decided a few years ago, before the flood of new European/Med. bases, when I was using CFS 1 bases imported into CFS 2, to go with one common airbase.dat file for the ETO, MTO and EF installations.

I now have to check for duplications when I add to the airbase.dat file. Thanks to Rami's great efforts there aren't many. If there is a duplication I try to change the number of the airbase which is not being used in a mission or campaign.

Back on the subject of the new LOD7 mesh and the scenery heirachy:
All my CFS 2 installations are now served by one single addon scenery folder containing all my scenery sub-folders including mesh; and one single SCENEDB folder containing all the default sub-folders except for SCENEDB\world.

This not only saves disk space, but makes adding new scenery, weapons, vehicles, etc less of a chore.

Kevin
 
I'd like to join everybody in thanking Dick for this mesh. Just phenomenal and I'll be adding it to cfs2 and fs7 when they arrive later this week.

It will be interesting to see the size of the lod 9 program. FSGlobal 2008 for fs9 is about 99% or so lod 9 and it's 13 gig.
 
I would like to install only the files from pacific... whith number do I have to downloads...? I mean... some simmers like CFS2 for ETO also... but as for me I use for PTO only... I love the wonderful landescapes which CFS2 provides
Thanks
Jose

:wavey::wavey:
 
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