White Cliffs Of Dover

ok i'll knock up a quick test i'll place a shape of chalk about 5mi inland of Dover, if you can't see that it might be a missing texture, if you can it might be your mesh... this is the joy of beta testing.... :icon_lol:

EDIT: Stuart, attached is the coral.r8 file and a bgl file with a rather large chalk feature placed near Dover, should narrow down what the issue is
 
Matt Wynn said:
ok i'll knock up a quick test i'll place a shape of chalk about 5mi inland of Dover, if you can't see that it might be a missing texture, if you can it might be your mesh... this is the joy of beta testing.... :icon_lol:
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Just opened a bottle of old scrumpy, i'll give it a go :)
 
see prior post Stuart, contains a new scenery folder with the large feature and the coral.r8 file in case it's a missing texture, the .r8 file goes in the main FS9 'Texture' folder....
 
yeah i have it in my UKVFR install, but there's nothing really for non-VFR users... shame really as they're iconic and totally AWOL :icon_lol:
 
Matt Wynn said:
ok so it seems like a mesh issue, what mesh you using?
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I think you are right Matt!
I use 'European Enhanced Terrain' by Abacus. I've had it for years now...:)
But I have so much other c... installed over the years, I think it might be worth considering a fresh installation of fs9.
I'm just dreading all the backups required. (60GB).

Well, I'm giving up for tonight, so I can start again in the early morning...

Thanks anyway for your rapid response to my request, I am very grateful for your support! :salute:

I will get it working, I will, I will I willlllllll.........

Cheers,

Stuart
 
Hey...since I live on the west side of the Big Pond and have no idea what airports are close to the White Cliffs of Dover....could someone who knows the British airports (stockers at that) give me a list of airports to start flights at so I can take a gander at Matt's scenery work and see how it works with Rhumbaflappy's LOD8 mesh for that part of the world?

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
Hey...since I live on the west side of the Big Pond and have no idea what airports are close to the White Cliffs of Dover....could someone who knows the British airports (stockers at that) give me a list of airports to start flights at so I can take a gander at Matt's scenery work and see how it works with Rhumbaflappy's LOD8 mesh for that part of the world?

OBIO
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You can either start at Manston EGMH and turn south after take-off then follow the coast or start at Lydd EGMD and turn north-east after take-off then follow the coast. The 'white cliffs of Dover' should be roughly at the mid-point between the two airports.

In either case if you start at one airport and reach the other you have gone past them somewhere along the route.
 
Apologies for late posting but I have belatedly remembered that there is a small (270kb) FS2002 scenery at Simviation called "grisnez" which covers the cliffs on both sides of the Channel.

It sort of worked in FS2004 but I didn't keep it because the sea appeared to be climbing up the cliff faces.....possibly a mesh conflict. Almost certainly nowhere near as good as Matt's offering but could be worth a look.

As an aside I am suprised that no scenery developer thus far in the long lifetime of FS2004 has apparently been interested in this area of the UK as both Dover Castle and the Ferry Port are important and well known landmarks.

JP
 
Yeah it's a massive VFR landmark, and yet so widely overlooked it seems...

ok next step once all these bits are downloaded and activated, is to move the cliffs so they're on the Rhumba mesh, then that's that stone turned... then i'll take a look at the overlay Hurricane mentions :salute:
 
I just had a look at Rhumba's mesh!
Wow, that's a trillion MB download! Which one of these files is specifically for the British SE coast?
 
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