Mesh Scenery Design - How To

I am English myself but am designing airports in Switzerland and have been there about 4 times myself. I am looking for the most detailed AND accurate mesh for Switzerland. I don't care if it costs money or not, but everything i've found is not good enough. I use the areas around lucerne, bern and the Jungfrau to judge the accuracy by and all fall way short of the mark! I have tried Raimondo Tuburet's "old style" mesh, Gaia mesh (detailed yes, but too pointy!) and Josiah Haut's mesh and they are all OK, but not what i'm looking for. The closest i've seen is Thierry Pignot's mesh for Mt Blanc but that doesn't cover Switzerland. Does anyone know what resolution is used for …

For beginning Mash: Can someboby tell me the advantage of grises or FST. I have tested a bit. FST seems to use a RGB Bitmap and grises works with grayscale 256 Bit.I had some problems to find exact Runway elevations.Some help please.Pit

LOL !!Here is what I do Gents, It is pretty simple and straight forward !!I hope some of you find it useful or amusing whichever !! LOL !!Happy Mesh Creating !!http://www.x-plane.org/users/jackknife/MeshDocmadeeasy.zipLOL -> The Link Never Works, Just type it into your Browser and Click go !!Sorry !!Many Cheers Jackknife.............

Dear All:Is there a way to merge a high resolution small area 5x5 KM mesh terrain with a low resolution big area (40x40KM) ?Can i create a small high resolution mesh terrain that just cover a 5x5 KM?Thanks.Alfredo Mendiola LoyolaLima Peru

Does anyone know how to convert UTM Coordinates to Latitude and Longitude ??I notice that some data that you get is in UTM coordinates and I would like to convert it to its actual Latitude and Longitude Coordinates ie. North/West borders.Many Cheers Jackknife....

Hi fellow simmers,I am looking for the most detailed AND accurate freeware (or payware)mesh for Shetland Islands. Hope you can help me!Best Regards and safe flights!Holger (German Eagle) SchleenhainRuesselsheim (near EDDF):-wave GERMANY :-wave____________________________________________________________________Windows XP Prof.AMD Athlon 1330 DDR-266; ASUS A7A266; 512MB-DDRASUS AGP-V8200 T5 Pure (nVIDIA gFORCE3 Ti 500) 64MB DDR-SDRAM, Det. 23.11SB PCI 512CH Flight Sim Yoke USB CH Pro Pedals USBGoFlight-user

Could the 15 minutes of an expert save hours of headache out of this newbie?I keep getting the error "..tmf doesn

I'm in no way an expert on mesh and i keep reading about LOD. But what the bloomin' heck is it? Am i right in thinking it stands for Level Of Detail? What effect does it have? Is it just for mesh or other types of scenery as well? how does one control it?Thanks, Mark

The default fs2002 mesh placed a lake much bigger, higher and circular and in reality it is at lower altitude, smaller and looks like a lake, the outcome is that I

I got a phone call from JOHNCI today and we figured out with the help of an email he had recieved concerning the parsing of quotation mark in windows XP...If you are getting errors during compiling your bgl files with landclass assistant and windows XPrefer to the following *.inf file[Destination] LOD = 5 NorthLat = 33.75 SouthLat = 30.9375 WestLong = -112.5 EastLong = -108.75 DestDir = . DestBaseFileName = landclass[source] Type = ClassU8 SourceDir = . SourceFile = landclass.raw Lat = 33.75 Lon = -112.5 NumOfCellsPerLine = 256 NumOfLines = 256 CellXdimensionDeg = 0.0146484 …

It seems that FS2002 only support LOD = 11 or lower. I have created a very detailed mesh of Devils Tower (altitude data every 10 meters, LOD=12 ani it was imposible to see until I discover TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL parameter in FS2002.cfg, the default is 19 but I have tested until 35 and there is a grand diference.The fist Image is my scenery without the cfg changeThe second was with TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL = 35But still we have a problem, if we are far of the scenary, more than aprox 4.2nm the mesh disappear "image 4"and whe we are near, less tha 4.2nm the mesh appear. "Last image"Someone know the changes in configuration to have very detailed mesh terrains far than 4.2 …

I have been reading posts about the problems in GAIA meshes....but having rethought the issue....Just HOW wrong it it??Can anyone show me some A/Bs maybe since visual flight has a GREAT mesh of the UK ( A MUST BUY - IMHO )how about an A/B of GAIA vs VISUAL FLIGHT's UKRichard GreenVATUSA4Events and VA Director

I have a question about the several land class add on sceneries. Do they require the shareware Land Class Program to be seen, or are they stand alone in the manner of other add on scenery enhancements? btw, I have downloaded and installed some of the land class add ons, and I think they look great...and may have just answered my own question...But, I wanted to be sure that I am doing everything right to get the best look possible. Thanks!Sherman KaplanHighland Park Il

I've noticed that if I edit the landclass for a scenery area, compile a BGL and install it, it will look wrong if I put it into the same directory as other scenery. That is, I can not distribute it directly along with whatever scenery I am designing. Instead, I have to creat a seperate "scenery" directory, and add it there instead of just dropping the BGL into the same scenery directory.Why is this?Also, if you look around most airports, you see a "shading" that covers the landclass around the runway. Actually, it almost seems like it is it's own special landclass, since it still appears underneath the runway regardless of what landclass type is selected. It does not …

Not looking for GAIA...Looking for relaisting higher quality mesh - 75M or better I know I am spoiled in the US.... but I do lots of flying in Germany, Austria, Switzerland etc.Richard GreenVATUSA4Events and VA Director

Steve wrote a couple of weeks ago in this forum>... any replacement mesh must cover a full quadrant> of the underlying fs mesh; otherwise it will not be used...This could be the solution to a problem I encountered and therefore I'd like to know how to find out how big the quadrants of the underlying fs mesh are and where they are exactly located.Thanks, SaintX

Thanks to schampi's post, I had the last bit I needed to build an application to change the default ground textures in FS2002 (if you have the app schampi, I gave you a bit of credit in the docs).The app is freeware (the best type of app) but requires some reading. Results of what it can do can be found in the FS2002 main forum. It's not an airport design or scenery object design app...it strictly deals with the underlying ground textures (and Autogen)....I'm fielding basic support questions in the thread I've opened in the FS2002 forum...Regards,John

Anyone tried any of these new free European meshes ? I'm glad to see we have at last got some freeware mesh this side of the pond.I do like the UK mesh, however I see an odd effect on hillsides. It's like the hill is stepped. Is this a normal side-effect, or maybe a problem ?regards , Tony

Hi Boys, I inform you that I have created the new Andalucia v.1.0 meshscenery (South of Spain), this scenery has as a reference every 50 realmeters, and with a vertical resolution of 1 meter. This scenery has beencreated in LOD9 and re-projected of UTM to geographical coordinates. Enjoy!Roblopez Design Sceneryhttp://www.telefonica.net/web/roblopezds

Can I use a 512x512 Bmp for better resolution in defining landclass info, or does the SDK tool just re-sample anyway back down to 256x256?ThanksPaul

Just a simple question ,er I mean questions.For land masses outside of the USA, does FS2002 utilize GTOPO30 elevation data for it's mesh ?Reason I ask is that I want to be able to touch up Calgary, Canada, not happy with the river valley depth that runs through the city. It is too deep and a little too continous. Is it even possible to fix the inherent mistake. Because the fact that GTOPO30 is the only readibly and free data set for the rest of the world, would it be any any different if created bv me vs. FS2002(assuming it uses GTOPO as well).What programs out there in any opinion offered by you guys would enable me to do this? FSTerrain, FSMesh ??? Ideally I would just …

Hello Gents,I have a quick Question, I created my first mesh, just having some fun, Some mountains. I did not like how they looked after doing the standard DEM face lift so I modified them a little, ie. gave them a little pick me up. I found it very frustrating after you give them a facelift or elevate them more to level them off where the LOD's meet.When you guys modify them by hand as in take them out of their original elevation points, what are some techniques that you use to level the LOD's off at the edges ??Pics of my mountains below:http://flightsimmers.net/airfield/jackknife/lcest6.jpghttp://flightsimmers.net/airfield/jackknife/lcest8.jpgCheers Jackknife..........…

Im workintg on airport W92 I entered the lat/lon in a decimal conversion program I found on the web. It says however that it will not display a negative value. So for the following lat/lon wich if any of the decimal equivalant would have a minus signs. ANd when does one know when to include a minus sign?PeteW92(USA)LAT/LON:N38* 48.95W078* 46.23Decimal:38.8266666666666778.77305555555556KGAI(USA)LAT/LON:N39* 10.10W077* 09.96Decimal:39.16944444444444463.17666666666667

Hi there fellow designersDoes anybody know of tools that can work with the fs2002 hy???.bglwhich were I think coastline in the earlier fs2000 versionI know of DP-CLE Coast Line Editor for fs2000is thier somthing that will help me work with fs2002 coastline types?Many thanks for any helpRegards Greg

Hi, I would like to create mesh scenery (small european islands)is anyone know tutorial teachs how to create mesh scenery for FS2002 ??? or anyone can explain what i should do step by step and plain? Best Regards