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News Item: X-Plane 10 HD Mesh Scenery v2 released!

 

 

The free (donationware!) X-Plane 10 HD Scenery Mesh v2 has been released after almost a year of work. It covers many of the "interesting" regions of the planet (over 55 Gbytes of data), covering:

• Europe (Iceland and Canaries included)
  
• USA (Hawaii included)
  
• Canada (most parts of it)
  
• Alaska
  

A coverage map can be found here:

It is an update to the older v1 HD Mesh (and a replacement of the default Global Scenery) and brings a lot of improvements to the simulator:

• It is a much higher resolution base mesh (more, smaller triangles) compared to the default Global Scenery which ships with X-Plane 10 (one could say: approximately 2-3-times more dense)
  
• The higher resolution mesh allows for a much more detailed representation of the elevation profile of the landscape
  
• The higher resolution mesh allows a much more detailed/exact representation of the underlying landclass data (because of the smaller triangles, which can follow landclass changes in the raw data more closely)
  
• It is based on a completely new Openstreetmap (OSM) data (approximately end of September 2013), which brings (compared to default Global Scenery) a lot of improvements in:
  • water features (lakes, rivers, coastline) - many previously missing water features are now finally there
    
  • roads
    
  • railroads
    
  • power lines
    
  • urban park areas
    

  [*]It includes line rivers from OSM (not just polygons as before) tagged waterway=river which improves the landscape in most regions quite a bit

  [*]Uses improved urban zoning (thanks to improved algorithms in the scenery generator)

  [*]Many smaller and larger landclass data improvements

  • completely replaced the landclass data for Canada (big improvements)
    
  • improved forest density representation in Europe (changed the sparse / dense classification)
    
  • some new classes added (in many regions), like: moraines, riverbeds, mining/dump sites
    
  • added differentiation between ice (perennial) and snow (more temporal) to have an even more detailed representation of mountains
    
  • dded differentiation between irrigated / non-irrigated crops (in some regions - like the USA etc.)
    

  [*]Completely replaced the elevation data with viewfinderpanoramas.org (if yew have a few cents, donate to that guy!). This doesn't changes much in areas which were already great, but fixes some which were really hosed.

One important prerequisite: to make this scenery work, you MUST have at least X-Plane version 10.25 (beginning with 10.25 beta1)!

 

A large selection of screenshots can be found here:

• Europe: https://picasaweb.google.com/101666907909842492197/XPlane10HDMeshSceneryV2EuropeFINAL?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNKp646D4Ynscw&feat=directlink
  
• North America: https://picasaweb.google.com/101666907909842492197/XPlane10HDMeshSceneryV2NorthAmericaFINAL?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCLCalPCK1MD6vAE&feat=directlink
  

All informations, possible updates, installation instructions, and download links can be found here:

http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-10-hd-scenery-mesh-v2/

I recommend all users, to first start with one or two small regions. Download them, install them, test if it works. And then slowly - step-by-step - get more regions.

 

I would like to thank www.flightsim.com for making it possible to host a project of this size!

 

Andras Fabian

www.alpilotx.net