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Today marks the release of FreeMeshX Global for FSX, FSX:SE, and P3D by Nine-Two Productions. FreeMeshX is a global terrain mesh replacement for the stock terrain mesh and features LOD10 (38-m) coverage for almost the entire world. LOD10 is equal to the same terrain level of detail used for the USA in the stock scenery. The rest of the world varies from LOD6 to LOD9. FreeMeshX was created to bring the rest of the world up to the LOD10 standard as much as possible, although some regions of the world in the higher latitudes are still limited to LOD9 (76-m). The motivation for this project started from the lack of a comprehensive global terrain mesh replacement that did not involve forking over hard earned cash. FS Global 2010 is a great project, but it costs well over 50 USD and uses mainly older SRTM2 90-m downscaled to 78-m resolution.
FSGenesis has a 20 USD global terrain mesh, but like FS Global 2010, it uses mainly older SRTM2 90-m data downscaled to LOD9. Towards the end of 2014, NASA began to release newer, upgraded terrain data for regions outside of the USA that was higher in resolution and also void-filled. This SRTM 3.0 data is identical to the quality of the USA SRTM data that is available at 1-arcsecond resolution (30-m). Unlike proprietary terrain data, such as NextMap, SRTM data has always been open and free, so nothing prohibited us to start downloading the data and compiling it for FS use. FreeMeshX features LOD10 (38-m resolution) coverage for:.
North America (LOD10 Canada is released in this mesh - default USA is already LOD10, so USA is not included for the base release. A LOD11 USA mesh is in the works). South and Central America. Europe.
Asia. Africa. Australia and Oceania A few regions are limited to LOD9 (78-m resolution):. Antarctica. Greenland. Russian territories north of 60 N latitude FreeMeshX was compiled using over 400 GB of raw terrain data.
The final size of the product is 42 GB, making it one of the largest freeware projects ever for FS. It wouldn't be in everyone's best interests to download all 42 GB at once, so we are releasing the product the product into continental regions for a total of 7 downloads total.
Each continent contains a number of 10 deg x 10 deg titles, mosaiced from 1 deg x 1 deg tiles into a 2.5 GB file, and then compressed into a BGL file. Defragmentation is highly recommended for mechanical hard drives to ensure smooth and quick loading. Largest improvements: Biggest improvements are found in regions that contain mainly LOD6 and LOD7 meshes. Mainly remote regions of Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Asia.
Europe sees some improvement, but it's LOD9 mesh is just a one level upgrade to LOD10. Some improvements will be found in the accuracy of the mesh and level of detail in mountain ranges, such as Suilven in Scotland pictured below. Images: Preview photo album: Distribution: Distribution over the net is a challenge. With this much data, how do we move it?
Well, bit torrent was built to move large amounts of data through P2P. We'll be employing this solution as the primary distribution method, but we will also be using MediaFire links as well for those who can't use bitTorrent due to ISP throttling or blocking.
At the moment, MediaFire is giving us a little trouble with the uploads, so we are limited to bit torrent for the time being. With as many people as possible seeding, download speeds will be excellent for all users. We rented out a seedbox with a 10 Gbps upload speed just for this purpose! Future expansions: FreeMeshX Global 1.0 is just the beginning. FreeMeshX is planned to be a moving release, and evolve in time. Subsequent expansions will include a higher detailed mesh for the USA using NED data.
Popular mountain ranges will also be added in higher detail, such as the Alps and Himalayas. These expansions will remain free. Airport plateaus: Every terrain mesh is affected by airports on plateaus.
This is due to FSX making every airport flat, and then giving the airport file an elevation to place it along the default terrain. If the default terrain is not correct, which is often the case, and a more accurate mesh is installed that differs significantly from default terrain, then the airport will be found in a pit or plateau. The only way to circumvent the problem of plateaus are (in preferential order):. Manually blend in each default airport by hand with the new mesh (not going to happen). Code a tool to flatten meshes around airports (inconvenient). Provide updated airport elevation corrections (inconvenient) None of these solutions will be offered by Nine-Two Productions, mainly because we lack the skillset or means of developing them at this time. What we recommend is using existing 3rd party solutions such as Pilot's Airport Flattening Meshes or ORBX FTX Vector airport elevation corrections.
We recommend the ORBX solution because you get more for your buck than just generic flattening meshes. Both of them are linked below:. Why are we releasing this for free? Because why not? We haven't used significant financial resources.
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Neither should you. We certainly don't feel our free time is so important that we should charge you 50+ USD. We'd rather share with you without expecting donations, payments, or even small thanks. If you try and like it, then that is enough reward for us. Installation: Installation is simple. No installers are needed. No registry entries.
No start menu shortcuts. Each region is contained within a scenery folder where the terrain.bgl files are stored. Simply add to the scenery library through FSX as you would with any scenery folder. You can put the files anywhere, as long as they are contained with a scenery folder and you add it to the scenery library config. Possible example folder structures: FSX Addon Scenery FreeMeshX - Europe Scenery BGL files FSX FreeMeshX Global Europe Scenery BGL files FSX Addon Scenery FMX Europe Scenery BGL files To uninstall, simply remove the scenery config, and delete or move the folder.
Compatibility: FreeMeshX should work with other meshes. FSX simply uses the highest LOD mesh in the library for a given location. This way you can layer meshes. For instance, FS Global 2010 may have a LOD11 mesh for a mountain range. With both FreeMeshX and FS Global 2010 enabled in the library, FSX will prioritize the LOD11 mesh over the FreeMeshX LOD10 mesh. Tested and built using FTX Global. We recommend purchasing it.
It's on sale this month of May too. Download.torrent files:. Africa (8.7 GB). Antarctica (1.0 GB) (.
Asia (13.3 GB). Australia and Oceania (3.2 GB). Europe (3.5 GB). North America (5.5 GB). South and Central America (6.9 GB) Conventional HTTP links for those who can't torrent - Requires 7-ZIP - 4.38 GB max size per link Always extract the.001 or.7z file. The rest of the parts will automatically extract afterwards into one folder.
Preference is torrenting, so please torrent if you can! Africa (2 Parts). Antarctica (1 Part). Asia (4 Parts). Australia and Oceania (1 Part). Europe (1 Part). North America (2 Parts).
South America (2 Parts). Some screenshots showing the levels of improvements: License: You may use and share this work, as long as original credit is given to the authors: Daniel Moser and David Esnouf.
No commercialization of this work or derivative works is allowed. Full license here: Edited October 4, 2015 by n4gix Added conventional HTTP links for those who cannot torrent at request of OP.
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Reminded by Henk that I have now added PW Sceneries from Striking Software which I forgot to include to this Free Scenery Downloads page. Anyway, it’s been updated and just click banners to go to the home page of specific developer. Total: 15 sites Updated on: 7-March-2012 ♥ = My Favorite ♦ = FPS friendly (scale of 10) Ants Airplanes by Antony Lynch offers dozens of high quality sceneries and airports all over Australia. However, they need Orbx’s payware to render the best sceneries quality. 10 ♥ – 10 ♦ BlueSkyScenery offers high resolution photorealistic sceneries covering the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Utah’s Red Rock Country, the deserts of southern Nevada, Sierra Nevada and California.
7 ♥ – 10 ♦ Finnish Scenery Designers offers improved mesh, landclass, roads, shorelines, utilities, streams and railroads for Finland. 6 ♥ – 10 ♦ FlightSim Greenland offers real meshes and sceneries and airports of Greenland based on ASTER Global Digital Elevation 3D data from NASA.
5 ♥ – 10 ♦ Hovercontrol offers airports and sceneries customized for helicopter simmings. 5 ♥ – 9 ♦ Let’s Fly offers quite a few scenery addons for Japan. However, many of them are only open for download within a limited period of time. 5 ♥ – 9 ♦ Netherlands 2000 offers high-quality sceneries and airports covering the whole of Netherlands. They not only comes with many 3D objects but also nicely blends with others’ payware sceneries and airports. 9 ♥ – 8 ♦ Orbx FTX offers many high-quality, high-resolution sceneries and airports for Australia and North America.
However, they are designed to only use with their respective paywares. 9 ♥ – 7 ♦ OZx offers hundreds of additional sceneries and airports supplementing Orbx FTX’s Australia and North America paywares. They could still be used as standalone freewares, however. 10 ♥ – 10 ♦ NEW Striking Software offers accurate coastline, landclass, waterclass, and other enhancements to a bunch of airports in the Caribbean area. It blends perfectly with FlyTampa’s Grenadines and Maarten sceneries. 9 ♥ – 10 ♦ Return to Misty Moorings offers additional scenery objects for the Pacific Fjords region of North America. It requires Orbx’s NA BLUE Pacific Fjords payware in order to function properly.
8 ♥ – 9 ♦ Terra Brasilis has dozens of airports and city sceneries for Brazil. It also comes with enhanced MESH for the whole of South America.
8 ♥ – 10 ♦ Vidan Design offers a few airports and city sceneries of Denmark. 5 ♥ – 9 ♦ Vector Land Class has released a bunch of Airfields for New Zealand. They can be used without the company’s Vector Land Class product, except that a few objects will be suppressed. 8 ♥ – 9 ♦ Virtual Pilots Association offers an imaginery airport in Germany. Quite interesting.
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