PREVIEW - UHD Mesh Scenery v4 (X-Plane 11)

[alpilotx 505]

Some of you might have already read about it here or there: UHD Mesh Scenery v4

Although this is NOT RELEASED yet, I thought it would be time to show you a bunch of - more or less - final screenshots of some of the finished regions:

• Alps / Pyrenees (Europe)
• Japan
• New Zealand
• USA West (everything west of 104°W!)

As always, UHD Mesh will use high resolution elevation data (30m DEMs from various sources) and at least for the above mentioned regions also some specially tuned high resolution landclass data (compared to HD Mesh).

The exact release date is still unknown, because I have still not finished - but at least planned - Canada West and Scandinavia (how, or how much they will be covered will have to be seen). But I aim for sometime spring 2018 (but again, no guarantees).

Now, this way you can head over to the quite extensive (already 187 pics) album:

• https://photos.app.goo.gl/0SC8UmRvs0OkJcQX2

And here are a few appetizers:

 

[Murmur 3,941]

So nice. With such a high definition mesh, XP looks closer to Outerra in some screenshots (although the latter still has better lighting, scattering, water, etc.).

What are those lines on the ground in the third last shot?

[soaring_penguin 428]

These really look nice, and rival more and more w2xp + ortho4xp. HD Mesh v4 was already a huge step. I really don't know anymore what direction to go, I like both ... .

[alpilotx 505]

38 minutes ago, Murmur said:

What are those lines on the ground in the third last shot?

A bug (in how forests are filled in - its visible almost everywhere ... and can be seen with HD mesh too ... but depends on the direction ... the lines usually rune from East to West) in X-Plane 11 ... Ben has the bug report for ages now (as we discussed it with him a year ago) ... but hadn't time to fix it.

But one can live with it...

[alpilotx 505]

1 minute ago, jh71 said:

These really look nice, and rival more and more w2xp + ortho4xp. HD Mesh v4 was already a huge step. I really don't know anymore what direction to go, I like both ... .

Well a word of caution - of course - should be said: this eats your computer alive ... Remote, or less dense areas are quite ok, but for example Tokyo (the second shot from the bottom) becomes a fast slideshow even on a GeForce 1080 Ti (but thats likely the heaviest region).
And of Course 32 GByte of RAM is almost a must here.

[soaring_penguin 428]

10 minutes ago, alpilotx said:

But one can live with it...

And me who always was thinking it was a feature like a firebreak 

[Humpty 751]

WOW. stunning work again Andras. awaiting the release.  

Agree with Murmur that does look like Outerra 

[dmarques69 316]

Really nice, although im a big fan of Ortho4XP i really love HD mesh also, and i use it for some places! Nice work!

[olderndirt 2,295]

Bring it on.  Been using parts of your UHD V1 over HD V4 and it's superb. 

[MikeMJD 2]

Looking forward, am upgrading computer so will make sure put in 32 gig fast memory.