I bought the USA bundle for FS2004 and its not working.

[nickac1092]

Hi.  Im not happy right now.  I did as the installer said and changed the value in FS9.cfg to 21, nothing, and 20, and still nothing.  I use ultimate terrain USA, and i turned that off.  Now i have no detail and no mississippi river next to downtown St. Paul up here in Minnesota.  Im using FS2004 with settings at max.  The default scenery is still showing because i saw screenshots of how 19M scenery should look like.  Am i missing something here?  Right now im irraitated enough to the point that if i cant get it to work, i want my money back.

[nickac1092]

Here is what my FS9.cfg says for the terrain section:

[TERRAIN]
TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=100.000000
TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=20
TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8
TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5
TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1
TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=0.000000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=0.000000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=232

[nickac1092]

man.  Thanks for the supoport you guys...    I dont even know it its working but the Mississippi looks more like it does in google earth.  I have Ultimate Terrain USA ontop of it.

[JustinFSG]

Sorry for the delay.  Been out of town.

The files should have ended up in \scenery\world\scenery.  Do you see "dem19m_*.bgl" files there?

Justin/FSG

[JustinFSG]

Last time I checked, Minnesota isn't really known to have many mountains.  If there are no mountains in real life, high-resolution terrain mesh will not create them.  Flat is flat, no matter what the resolution.  Best you're gonna see in Minnesota are subtle undulations.

Ultimate Terrain will have no effect on the terrain mesh other than to make lakes, rivers, streams, and roads more accurate, so turning it off won't have any effect on the terrain mesh.

If you want to compare and see the best results with the high-res terrain, go to a mountainous area and fly around.  I'm sure you find some good stuff over a state or two in the Dakotas, the Rockies, and places like that. Minnesota is not the best place to showcase high-resolution terrain mesh

jt/fsg

[nickac1092]

yea all my stuff is there.  I did noticed that the elevation change around the Mississippi River.  Quick question though.  Do winter textures affect it at all?  All i see is default ground textures around the area of Minneapolis St. Paul...  Im guessing though that it is active since the elevations around the River are correct since i checked with Google Earth.

[JustinFSG]

Terrain mesh is only the shape of the ground, not the textures on that shape.  The textures (farm, forest, urban, suburban, etc) are called landclass.  The terrain mesh will have the same shape no matter what season or texture lays on top of it.

jt/fsg

[nickac1092]

alright.  WHen i get a chance to fly over the rockys or the grand canyon (dont know if thats also included but it would be great if it is!) il check it out.  Cant excactly make the trip right now though since im at St. barts in a Aerosim Winair DHC-6-300 Twin Otter...  Next week when im doing another round trip il check it out.