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  5. Posted

    On 11/20/2020 at 11:41 AM, brntwrmn said:

    Hello Everyone - I am confused about FreeMeshX. I am using FSX Steam Edition. I have only been using default scenery along with some scenery enhancements from ALeclercqCreations. Do I have to purchase Orbx products to make FreeMeshX Global 2.0 work? Is it possible to just use the default scenery from FSX Steam Edition? Thank you.

    No, you do not need any products to use the mesh. I just recommend Vectors b/c that adjusts airports and water body information to better align with the mesh.

  7. Posted

    On 8/17/2019 at 3:56 PM, HighBypass said:

    Hi dnz - looking at what Daniel wrote above, my guess is that you are correct with USA beta being an addition to the rest of the folders, not a North America replacement.

    It appears that it's been some time since Dan was present on the forums, hope he's doing OK...

    I'm alive and well. Thanks for your thoughts.

    I've just been away from the ESP platform the last year or so -- outside of a rare A2A Connie flight. If I do occasionally sim, it's usually in the world of X-Plane (pretty nice sim). With MSFS being announced, and so far wowing me personally, I am starting to itch to get back into flight simulation, and there are still some outstanding artifacts present in the mesh that I'd like to clean up. They have just not been high priority for me since I earned my doctorate and took my life in a new direction (now in Texas).

    I do want to get a FreeMeshX Global patch out for those remaining (known) artifacts. Hopefully the holidays will give me some time to think about it and locate these artifacts. It would be nice to open these old scripts I wrote for the data cleanup for nostalgia's stakes. I probably will not be able to see to completion my ambitions for the USA mesh. They were technically possible, but a huge challenge to implement -- now that challenge is becoming more attractive but I've likely waited too long. I am almost certain MSFS will steal the show, return Microsoft to its former glory, and the need for my replacement mesh will no longer be necessary.

    Anyways, thanks for the kind thoughts. I hope FreeMeshX has been serving the community well in my absence, and heck there may even be an update for Christmas (seriously, no promises -- but it would be nice to get a fresh update out)

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    On 11/13/2019 at 8:26 AM, Cruachan said:

    As part of these discussions, we are reading again and again of user intentions to abandon financial support for the current 3rd Party Community of Developers by ceasing to purchase their products. Seriously?!

    It's a free market.

    The whole FSX/P3D scene has gone towards monetization and hasn't looked back. If the 3rd party aftermarket implodes, then that shows how unhealthy our scene actually is without the strong freeware core it once had. At least with X-Plane, the freeware scene is alive and thriving, driven by a passion for the hobby rather than profit margins, and wouldn't necessarily collapse.

    If a bunch of payware developers turn belly up as a result, then that's the market at work. If MSFS is a word not allowed-fest, then the payware market will likely rebound (assuming it declines at all by people holding out on purchasing).

    That's the invisible hand at work. I personally won't shed a tear if the whole scene goes under. That's business.

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  10. Posted

    Wow, pneumonia is no joke. Glad you are doing better.

    It may be possible to upload it to the File Library. I have installers for each continent that are broken up into parts, similar to how ORBX use to distribute their products, and the max file size is about 2 GB for each part. If the File Library can support such large parts, then I will consider uploading it because I know some people can't wrap their heads around bit torrent or worse their ISPs are severely restrictive and throttle bit torrent traffic, even for legal to redistribute products like FreeMeshX.

    Take it easy in the meantime. I'm sipping on some orange juice and watching some evening ice hockey.

    Cheers!

  12. Posted

    @idude

    Results will vary depending on the terrain. The USA mesh is LOD12 which has 16X the data density than the stock mesh, so the improvements should definitely show in rocky terrain. If you can't spot any differences whatsoever, then it may not be properly enabled in the Scenery Library, a problem as old as time itself.

    Here's an older video I took of some part of the Rockies in 2017 when I was testing results.

    https://gfycat.com/SnoopyShockingAbyssiniancat

     

  14. Posted

    The distribution costs of serving 50 GB of files to a user at a time are huge. That's like NetFlix serving a viewer 10 feature-length films. Obviously, the demand for FreeMeshX is not NetFlix-levels, but even a tiny fraction of that demand is cost-prohibitive.

    Bit-torrent is designed for transferring large files while distributing the costs of bandwidth onto the P2P network. It's basically tailor-made to be the solution for things like FreeMeshX. Without bit torrent, FreeMeshX probably couldn't exist.

  15. Posted

    Hi Jim,

    Thanks for asking about me. You're very kind. I am okay. Well, actually I'm battling the flu at the moment, but otherwise, good!

    I haven't been active with flight simulation much the past year because of my new job and other projects going on, but I'm still maintaining the latest release of FreeMeshX. Distribution costs of such a large database are huge, but I've been renting a serverbox for $15/month for the past 4 years to distribute it via bit torrent. That still adds up to be a lot of money, but hey it's good for the community to have a freeware option for their mesh needs.

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  17. Posted

    On 8/27/2018 at 3:11 PM, charliearon said:

    I don't use FreemeshX and looking at this forum, not many people do.  Like I said over at the other site, this type of scenery is best viewed from higher altitudes that commercial jetliners fly at.  I have the feeling you are looking for something along the lines like ORBX Scenery.   This will give you nice looking scenery from the airport runway up to about 10,000 feet.   I use to have ORBX PNW, which was freeware but cause some terrific loss of FPS and minor stuttering.

    You'll definitely notice a difference at low altitude if it's installed correctly. It's a 10-m mesh. That's 16X the data density of the stock mesh.The OP needs to double check their scenery library as that is usually the problem with most issues where no improvement is visible.

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