Hello all,

 

Sorry if this has been beat to death.

 

Looking for the highest quality terrain mesh for Canada and perhaps the entire continent if practical. I've looked at ORBX' work and they seem to be of very high quality. Are there others ? And do these also create a more realistic landclass ?

 

Thx in adv

 

Ryan

for Land Class & Mesh Am using "UTX + FS Global Ultimate NA" personally I found that its the best available so far, might be someone has another opinion. FS Genesis Mesh are also good might be better than FS global cant confirm it as I didnt try them.

 

Good luck.

I use FS Genesis mesh for Canada and I find it to be very decent.  That said, where one needs mesh the most (in my opinion) is through the Rockies; and I have this area covered by Orbx's regional sceneries, which already include mesh.

 

 

 

Looking for the highest quality terrain mesh for Canada and perhaps the entire continent if practical. I've looked at ORBX' work and they seem to be of very high quality. Are there others ? And do these also create a more realistic landclass ?

 

The way you've stated your question leads me to be a little more thorough however.  Orbx only includes mesh with their regional sceneries (PNW, PFJ, etc) they do not make a continent wide mesh product.  For this, you'd have to turn to either FS Global / Pilots, or FS Genesis, or piece together various freeware offerings.  In regards to landclass, mesh has nothing to do with that.  Again, Orbx includes landclass in their regional sceneries, but not as of yet on a continent wide basis (they will be offering such in the future though).  There are quite a few landclass offerings out there, from UTX (which does more than landclass, to Cloud9 Xclass, to Scenerytech.  There's also a large amount of freeware landclass available as well.

 

Hope that helps. 

I currently use FS Genesis Mesh for North America and have been happy with it, especially given the cost.  However, the developer sold the product to a vendor so I'm not sure if updating will continue and the mesh still displays a fair number of plateaus.

 

Because of the uncertainty of the above, any future upgrade I do will likely be to to FS Global although I still haven't figured out the difference between FS Global 2010 and FS Global Ultimate yet. :-)

 

Ernie

Mesh I have it and I don't use it. With FTX Global and FTX regions I see no point in throwing away good money to add another layer that becomes invisible. Too late for me though as I fell for the snake oil.

 

If you really think it's necessary I would avoid buying anything from Pilots.

Anything here that you can use?

 

http://simviation.com//fsx_terrainmesh.htm

 

@DoubleJ: yes we've heard it umpteenth times now, and its enough. SCNR

If you really think it's necessary I would avoid buying anything from Pilots.

That's bollocks. The FS Global ultimate and America's series are just fine. It's SRTM mesh which has it's flaws. They also sell airfield plateau correction scenery (AFM). It's all a bit too pricey for my taste, but it's not any more worse than other vendors' mesh products. If price is a factor there's also freeware mesh available (SRTM) for America's on simviation.

Anything here that you can use?

 

http://simviation.com//fsx_terrainmesh.htm

 

@DoubleJ: yes we've heard it umpteenth times now, and its enough. SCNR

yeah, I have the whole world in different layers from sim aviation. Some of it is very good eg Asia and you can get down to 10m , free of course but you need TIME there is a lot of downloading and scenery library stuff to organise

yeah, I have the whole world in different layers from sim aviation. Some of it is very good eg Asia and you can get down to 10m , free of course but you need TIME there is a lot of downloading and scenery library stuff to organise

 

Well that's the choice we have, right? Download and organize freeware ourselves, or pay money and have someone do it for us...

Thanks for everyone's input... It's all sort of overwhelming at this point but I think I'm going to try FS Global to start .... I also use the flight ontario freeware land class... It seems fairly decent for Ontario but I have never used the default land class ...

That's bollocks. The FS Global ultimate and America's series are just fine. It's SRTM mesh which has it's flaws.

 

I'm responding as a paying customer for this product and seeing as you want to make it appear that you have a background in mesh, I'd like to ask what was the source material for the areas south of Mexico down to the tip of South America? Now I could wait, but I'd wager a pretty penny that the source starts with the letter "S" and ends with the letter "M". Same source that would be used in a lot of other spots on the planet. And yet now, that source is deemed flawed by a payware developer???

 

Don't buy into the BS spit out by developers, when they are looking to place blame for the shortcomings of their products or trying to use misinformation to boost the sales their products.

 

 

I also use the flight ontario freeware land class... It seems fairly decent for Ontario but I have never used the default land class

 

Their western land class is fairly good as well.  Land class is actually one of the easier, more fun items to play around with.  It's even quite easy to make your own, should you have a particular area in which you like to fly that you feel isn't up to snuff.  You can easily layer a small little custom area overtop of larger coverage with no ill effects.

Their western land class is fairly good as well. Land class is actually one of the easier, more fun items to play around with. It's even quite easy to make your own, should you have a particular area in which you like to fly that you feel isn't up to snuff. You can easily layer a small little custom area overtop of larger coverage with no ill effects.

Good to know. I will check that out. Thanks for your help! Now to find time to fly

In regards to landclass, mesh has nothing to do with that.

 

I have to slightly disagree, in that the way the landclass engine works is that the slope from the mesh will determine what texture is used (substitution). Higher resolution mesh often results in greater slope which triggers the substitution.

 

scott s.

I have to slightly disagree, in that the way the landclass engine works is that the slope from the mesh will determine what texture is used (substitution). Higher resolution mesh often results in greater slope which triggers the substitution.

scott s.

True enough. Although, the mechanism within the sim that displays different textures based on slope has little bearing on whether the texture displayed is actually accurate to the region or area.