Hi, I wondered if anyone else here has pre ordered the combined mesh and scenery product from these guys for Utah? I have and despite emailing the site, have had no updates or reply to my queries as to when we might get this product. has anyone else had better communication than me? Does anyone know if the release is imminent ?Thx, Mark

Hi, I wondered if anyone else here has pre ordered the combined mesh and scenery product from these guys for Utah? I have and despite emailing the site, have had no updates or reply to my queries as to when we might get this product. has anyone else had better communication than me? Does anyone know if the release is imminent ?Thx, Mark

Hi Mark,you can download the product (see order history in your shop account).But i think it's not the final version.Like with Oahu. It would be great if we would get the promised water masks :(

Try the forums:http://www.fsdreamscapes.com/forums/index.phpThe owner is in the Philippines.

Hmmmm, I cant check the forums as the link to my activation email does not work and the status on the blog shows it as "rendering". I would not mind a bit more pro active uodating system for customers, especially when you have paid in advance for something......

Hmmmm, I cant check the forums as the link to my activation email does not work and the status on the blog shows it as "rendering". I would not mind a bit more pro active uodating system for customers, especially when you have paid in advance for something......

You show up as a member on the forum.

Also, see http://fsdreamscapes.blogspot.com/ for the latest news. In particular, see the April 11, 2009 article for the latest on VFR+ Utah development.

AAAh, thanks for pointing me in the right direction with the blog. Will have a read now. I know I am a member, but it wont let me in until I activate, and the link is broke. I did send and email as well that went unanswered. Anyway, not ######ing just impatient!!!!Thx again, Mark

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Hey Mark, what email address have you been trying to use as we haven't received any email from you as yet and it'd be good to figure out what happened in our communciations system.I'll activate your forum membership manually so you can get into the forums.As Dick pointed out the blog has the latest info, the ProMesh stuff though is full release software, Oahu and Utah are still coming along, Karl our programmer was hit by a nasty trojan recently and that has slowed down production as well as all of the Europe ProMesh data becoming available.We're working on a new store and porting everyone over to the new store but it's a challenging process to make sure everyone's previous orders are linked in to the new store, which will allow for much more flexibility and discounts etc.In terms of Oahu, release is close, but it's a manual process, all the watermaps are ready to render but it all has to be hand coded. I am aiming to get her done by the end of July depending upon factors such as Typhoons and Monsoons and power working in the midst of them (This time of year in the Philippines is interesting)...Utah's water I'm looking at getting the USGS (low res water data) and adding it until the new watermask data is available later this year. On the other hand if customers are interested we might be able to give them the next VFR state for free and just wait until the end of 2009 to finalize the Utah water maps...I'm heading over to Guam in a couple of weeks for 3 days just to investigate moving our main office from Hawaii to Guam in order to streamline our operations and reduce shipping costs for customers...Please let me know if you have any more questions, I'm more than happy to help. Sorry you've had difficulties in reaching us, I'd love to know where your emails were addressed to in order to try and track down what happened there. In the meantime feel free to email support at fs dreamscapes dot com and I'll get your account activated in the forums...Cheers,Dean.

Hey Dean, thx for the activation. I cannot remember exactly which address I used, it was about 5 weeks ago now, sorry!! Anyways, no problem. Any idea of a timescale for the release of Utah + ? I was holding off buying Megascenery earth Utah, but if its going to be ages, i will get your next map pro mesh and download megascenery.Also, I could not see anywhere where to download the beta for Oahu? And i am confused about the VFR plus product. several posts in the forum refer to using it, I can also see screenshots of it in the screenshots section? but its on pre order?? But you do seem able to buy the DVD back up of it......Could you just explain the difference between the proVFR and VFR+. Basically, at the moment all we can buy is mesh, yes? BTW, love the pro mesh product. Thx, mark

Edit, I think i have found the answer to some of my questions on the forums. The Utah scenery in use is the Beta release, i am downloading it now. Will look for some install instructions on the forums. I also see no nextmap for Utah, so i guess is included in the beta? Would still like to know difference between provfr & vfr+Btw, cant wait for california and arizona, you have 2 sales there already....cheers, mark ( and thx for the hard work to enhance this great sim!)BTW, had some problems purchasing using my credit card. i just brought promesh Arizona and it would not accept my first card ( i can assure you it is completely usable) just tried later to buy oahu and hawaii mesh and it would not let me use the card i had to use as a second try earlier in the evening to buy Arizona. So they are still in my basket, as i only have 2 cards.

Hey Dean, reading posts in the forum has given me a better idea of the situation!! I see you can download the beta from your account section. However, having problems after the first 4 files. i am using download manager and the next 2 files stopped at 99% and wont start again. i also cannot start downloading any of the others. do you have any ideas why? i appreciate you are busy and have posted in the forum there as well, but dont know how much traffic it gets.... cheers,mark

I would try the regular download process from your browser. With a cable connection I never use download managers.

Hi Mark,Sorry, I've been replying mostly over at our forums...I'm not sure what's happening with your payments, as PayPal are the ones who currently handle credit card processing, you may want to try calling them or emailing them and hopefully they'll be able to sort out the problem. I'll look in to getting Google Pay set up as an alternative option... If paypal doesn't work we can look at other approaches for you and can get you all set up...In terms of difference between ProVFR and VFR+VFR+ is 1m (3ft) per pixel for imagery on the ground and is the base cover for the USAProVFR is 30cm (1ft) per pixel for imagery on the ground and is much higher resolution and looks much better in sim.Basically ProVFR is 16 times more detailed imagery than VFR+ (i.e. for one pixel at VFR+ resolution there are 16 pixels covering the same area in ProVFR).For VFR+ Utah, the 5m mesh is already included. It's not the NEXTMap ProMesh data but it is very very good, although it has some flaws. We're still awaiting the water data for Utah and that is scheduled by the end of this year and in the meantime we're thinking about just adding in the public domain water data as a stop gap until our high res water data becomes available. NEXTMap ProMesh Utah should hopefully be available by Q4 2009.With the PreOrder status, we launched the series in early 2008 as no one was providing the type of photoscenery in terms of both detail and coverage that we were planning. Due to the massive amount of programming needed to be done we wanted FS users to be able to have access to what we have "in house" as we're developing it, very reduced prices. This has helped us to capitalize and invest in equipment needed to move us towards mass coverage of the USA and we're just a few steps away from being able to finalize our processes and begin mass production.Right now we're also focused on the NEXTMap ProMesh datasets for all of Europe and the USA as those datasets are becoming rapidly available and will allow us to expand to five times our rendering capacity and start full scale photoscenery production.Feel free to ask more questions, I'm very happy to help...Cheers,Dean.

I'm sure the final product will be worth the wait and I for one love Utah even in the beta stage. I haven't even seen PROvfr+ and I'm awaiting the Hawaii version to go along with the 5m mesh.And for what just a few tiles of megasceneryEarth cost I got a whole state + mesh, and hopefully the update when it's ready. I think with the life left in FSX there is time to wait for the good stuff.-jk