FreeMesh X Global 1.0 - Release Announcement

[Pe11e 812]

Interesting Ebs,

 

I haven't seen that before in the mesh and I wonder if it's terracing in the data.

 

I'm seeing this "feature" in your mesh all around. I'ts very noticable because it looks like stripes, every "step" uses different texture. Sometimes it looks very cool, like some sort of crops, sometimes it looks awkward. I will post the screenshots later.

[AviatorMoser 353]

I'm seeing this "feature" in your mesh all around. I'ts very noticable because it looks like stripes, every "step" uses different texture. Sometimes it looks very cool, like some sort of crops, sometimes it looks awkward. I will post the screenshots later.

 

Interesting, the area around Split, Croatia that Ebs was flying by certainly seems to have terracing, but the conditions for terracing are usually due to limited fractional bit values at high resolutions. At the current FractionalBit value, the minimum difference in elevation between two values are 1.0 m.

 

If a high LOD mesh is used, such as 10-m, a mountain might need a finer difference than just 1.0 m. For example, real world values between neighboring elevation points could be 2251.24 m, 2251.50 m, and 2251.75m. Here, a minimum difference of 1.0 m would be insufficient, and the terrain will terrace.

 

But the terraces here are at elevation differences much greater than 1.0 m, so it shouldn't be a compilation issue. Hm....maybe it's in the original source data from NASA! It'll be hard to pick out because the stripes look to be only a pixel (38-m) wide.

 

There are other terraces within this tile. Yet, I don't find any outside of it. Hm, I may have to recompile and experiment with this one. Let me know if you find others.

 

Edit: Going around testing, and it seems to be occurring near the Adriatic, Italy, and some of the Balkans. That region is having issues. Definitely not normal! I'll have to find a solution to this area.

[Capt Speirs 52]

I am not having much luck with direct downloading. My connection is very fast but the downloads keep getting corrupted for the most part. Which torrent client is everyone using, never used one before.

[JSkorna 137]

uTorrent

[ZKOKQ 984]

I am not having much luck with direct downloading. My connection is very fast but the downloads keep getting corrupted for the most part. Which torrent client is everyone using, never used one before.

If your using direct link Ric, you need to use a download manager like "Internet Download Manager" <google>

[papab 3]

I am having the same problem-I use Internet Download Mgr 

I says it is downloading 4.65 gb and 1.95 gb  for the America downloads

When it is complete is says it is only 32  Kb for both ....

I downloaded Europe an Oceania with no problem

 

What am I doing wrong?

Rick

[AviatorMoser 353]

Ok folks,

 

I figured out why there are some terracing-like problems near the Adriatic. From N30 - N41 to E016-E020, there are some major artifacts from what is believed to be an issue from mosaicing a few tiles. Unfortunately, this affects much of Italy and some of the Balkan countries. This affects the FreeMeshX - Europe package.

 

A patch will be issued within the next few days to remedy this. Sorry about this!

[ZKOKQ 984]

No need to apologise Daniel. You and your team making this free to your fellow simmers is more than enough, and much appreciated.

[AviatorMoser 353]

I am having the same problem-I use Internet Download Mgr 

I says it is downloading 4.65 gb and 1.95 gb  for the America downloads

When it is complete is says it is only 32  Kb for both ....

I downloaded Europe an Oceania with no problem

 

What am I doing wrong?

Rick

 

Not sure. I just tested North America and they downloaded and extracted without errors.

 

However, I'm not sure why MediaFire is asking for captchas. I've paid for a professional account, and those links should be exempt.

[papab 3]

When it is done downloading do I use 7-Zip?

[JSkorna 137]

When it is done downloading do I use 7-Zip?

Yes, if you are using the direct links.

[AviatorMoser 353]

When it is done downloading do I use 7-Zip?

 

Make you sure only extract the first part of the multiple part regions. The rest of the region will extract automatically into one folder.

[kmkc6403 8]

Ok, im convinced enough by the screenshots that this is worth downloading, AND seeding.

 

I will mention i AM a Google Fiber customer, and my connection sometimes catches on fire because of friction from high speed

 

Ill seed all the regions overnights for a few days, get em while i remember to do this.

[Penz 45]

A patch will be issued within the next few days to remedy this. Sorry about this!

Wow.

 

You guys are scary good. Thanks for the HU.

[Pastaiolo 1,686]

Just use the torrent to download the packages guys, it's just so much better.