I've discerned much improvement in the terrain mesh in WU10 (USA). I live in West Virginia, where any inaccuracies in terrain mesh become apparent immediately. We have flat roadways chiseled into the sides of sloping mountains. We have level baseball parks situated on the tops of jagged, angled hills. We have wildly meandering rivers snaking their way through the bottoms of valley terrain, surrounded by the Appalachian mountain range. West Virginia is known as The Mountain State. It could also be called The Terrain Mesh State. So I was especially pleased by WU10. I've already noticed innumerable improvements to the default landscape, not to mention the new photogrammetry for our capital city, Charleston. I live in Huntington, which does not currently have photogrammetry. But the enhanced terrain mesh from WU10 has greatly improved my own local scenery as well. WU10 has also corrected many scenery and elevation quirks from earlier data. I'm grateful to Asobo for their hard work in continuing to improve an already-spectacular sim.  

Edited June 14, 20223 yr by David Mills

Does the terrain still morph & change even on highest settings in the latest WU USA?

ORBX managed to workaround this long ago with their mesh updates, about time Asobo did the same.

2 minutes ago, MarcG said:

Does the terrain still morph & change even on highest settings in the latest WU USA?

ORBX managed to workaround this long ago with their mesh updates, about time Asobo did the same.

I've never noticed that happening even before today's update. It sounds like a server-connection issue.

2 minutes ago, David Mills said:

I've never noticed that happening even before today's update. It sounds like a server-connection issue.

Nope nothing to do with server connection, has been discussed plenty in the past and as I said ORBX meshes do not suffer from the issue. 

30 minutes ago, MarcG said:

Does the terrain still morph & change even on highest settings in the latest WU USA?

Yes it does.  Even the water was morphing.  Maybe it is server overload, I dunno.

Does this update improve Alaska as well?

4 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

Does this update improve Alaska as well?

Going to find out in a mo.  They've included an Alaskan airport, so I'm hoping so.

59 minutes ago, David Mills said:

I've discerned much improvement in the terrain mesh in WU10 (USA)....

Hi David, I'm completely unfamiliar with West Virginia.  I'm just doing lots of 30ish minute  Heli flights to look at the new scenery/mesh this evening   Could you kindly suggest an Airport to fly out of for a short scenic preview of your state.   Thanks.

*sigh

They did add a new high-res DEM and forgot to check if it has any effects on POI's they had placed in the first U.S: World Update. Haystack Rock is now being pushed into the air, by the underlying mesh needle of itself.

How hard can it be to do proper quality control?

21 minutes ago, Farlis said:

How hard can it be to do proper quality control?

Is this an echo? 😬

43 minutes ago, The Moose said:

Hi David, I'm completely unfamiliar with West Virginia.  I'm just doing lots of 30ish minute  Heli flights to look at the new scenery/mesh this evening   Could you kindly suggest an Airport to fly out of for a short scenic preview of your state.   Thanks.

KCRW, located in Charleston. As of today, Charleston now boasts photogrammetry as well.

5 minutes ago, David Mills said:

KCRW, located in Charleston. As of today, Charleston now boasts photogrammetry as well.

Great timing, just about to head over there then!  Thanks for the suggestion.

 

1 hour ago, David Mills said:

We have flat roadways chiseled into the sides of sloping mountains. She have level baseball parks situated on the tops of jagged, angled hills. We have wildly meandering rivers snaking their way through the bottoms of valley terrain, surrounded by the Appalachian mountain range.

Are you the Minister for tourism by any chance?  Solid sales pitch.  Sold! 😄

Edited June 14, 20223 yr by The Moose

4 minutes ago, The Moose said:

Are you the Minister for tourism by any chance?  Solid sales pitch.  Sold! 😄

No. I'm one of the few people in the entire state who doesn't receive a government check.

Looks like a nice place. I'd love to go there one day! A world away from the east coast I'd say.

8 hours ago, Blueline308 said:

Yes it does.  Even the water was morphing.  Maybe it is server overload, I dunno.

On that's a shame thanks.

As above nothing to do with server overload, it's the way Asobo render the terrain whereas ORBX use a different method that simply works just fine. Quite why Asobo don't do the same is a mystery, there may well be a specific reason which is ok but they've never communicated about it so who knows! 

8 hours ago, Farlis said:

*sigh

They did add a new high-res DEM and forgot to check if it has any effects on POI's they had placed in the first U.S: World Update. Haystack Rock is now being pushed into the air, by the underlying mesh needle of itself.

How hard can it be to do proper quality control?

This isn't the first time they've screwed up World Update POIs that they released so this doesn't surprise me(!), as ever QC is severely lacking across the board.