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General / Re: Rivers in trenches with photo scenery

« on: March 01, 2012, 01:29:12 PM »

Neil, I just now received my US mesh from Justin so I checked your airport before and after the mesh install.   I also have UTX installed.   Guess what?  The river elevation looks properly  blended in my set-up (see screenshot below), both before and after the mesh install.   

I suspect in your case it may be another add-on by some author/vendor that is causing this problem.   You had asked about Freeflow - do you have that installed?    One quick way to isolate your problem is to disable all third party scenery enhancements so that you only are running the default scenery to see if the problem goes away.  Then add in FSG mesh next, and finally UTX.   

Hopefully you do not have a third party add-on installed into one of the default FS scenery directories or there won't be any way to prevent it from being pulled into the scenery indexing other that to find the files and move them out of the directory.

(oh, and it is Scott Gridley who is the Freeflow author.   I have been watching too many Vacation movies recalling a name like Griswald)

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Airport Plateaus / Re: Plateau west of Syracuse, NY, USA

« on: February 28, 2012, 10:48:40 PM »

Darn, another one just southwest of the one reported above.  This one appears to be new with FSX, for I flew in this area a lot in FS9 and never saw this one before. 

Lat/lon:   N42  37.14  W76  34.50

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General / Re: Less compressed FSX terrain data on DVD only for US data?

« on: February 28, 2012, 09:36:09 PM »

Disregard this question as my first download of my FSX terrain mesh at a lightning fast speed of 50kbps, despite my fiber optic download connection of 25mbps, has just answered my question.   I should have added all of my intended mesh DVDs into my USA DVD request from a couple of days ago.  This download speed is just not cutting it.

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Airport Plateaus / Plateau west of Syracuse, NY, USA

« on: February 28, 2012, 08:15:56 PM »

West of Syracuse, NY, USA (my home airport), there is a plateaued airport that was there across the last three sims.   Back in 2004 I looked into this and noticed  that the Jeppesen source data used to populate the FS airports had an incorrect elevation for this private, no-use grass strip.   

I don't recall the specifics now, but in FS2004 I had corrected this with some type of flattening and exclude command.    edit:  I found the old exclude/flatten bgl files but they don't work in FSX.

The lat/lon are west of:    N43 2.04'    W76 36.49

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General / Re: Rivers in trenches with photo scenery

« on: February 28, 2012, 07:42:42 PM »

No, that was Scott Griswald (If I have his name correct) - At the same time he was starting that endeavor I also learned the Slarti tool and re-did the lakes and rivers of NY state.   He and I were actually going to try to merge the two together but I ran out of steam and backed out of the project after finishing up the NY scenery - this was somewhere around 2005.

So, you have UT installed and you are still seeing that?  I wonder now if it has to do with the airport elevation.   Could you post a screenshot of it?  That might be easier to see what is happening.

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General / Re: Rivers in trenches with photo scenery

« on: February 28, 2012, 01:43:15 PM »

While you await Justin's answer, I can add something to this:    Rivers and lakes are in separate scenery files outside of the terrain mesh and they have their own elevation and positioning separate from the surrounding terrain mesh - what you are probably experiencing is that once highly accurate FSGenesis terrain mesh is applied to the sim world many of these inaccurately elevated lakes and rivers, along with the inaccurate positioning of these lakes and rivers, become more obvious with these trenches, mountains that get chopped off, etc.   

What you might consider is looking at Ultimate Terrain for FSX, which more accurately places coastlines, rivers, and lakes (as well as more accurately places them at the correct elevations).   FSGenesis mesh and UT for FSX compliment each other very well.


Regards,

Peter
(who knows a little about scenery - once designed a free NY lakes and rivers scenery for FS9 many years ago)

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General / Less compressed FSX terrain data on DVD only for US data?

« on: February 28, 2012, 12:24:06 PM »

Justin - just wanted to confirm my interpretations of the product descriptions:  It appears that only the FSX terrain data for the US mainland has two different compression levels, one for the downloaded product and another for the DVD version?   

Canada, Mexico, and other terrain data do not have these differences between the two product delivery methods, correct?

Thanks,

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General / Re: Landclass: FSGenesis or UT-USA?

« on: February 26, 2012, 07:03:38 PM »

Excellent.   Thank you, Justin.

Edit:  Found a link to this FSGenesis/UT Sandwich here:

http://www.scenerysolutions.com/Compatibility/?page_id=18

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General / Landclass: FSGenesis or UT-USA?

« on: February 26, 2012, 04:25:55 PM »

For FSX, what landclass product is more detailed, FSGenesis or Ultimate Terrain-USA?

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FSX / Finally moving to FSX - Advice for add-ons?

« on: February 25, 2012, 12:33:15 PM »

Hello - I was once a very active sim community member back in the FS2002/04 years who participated in newsgroups, here in FSGenesis' forum, and even dabbled in small-time scenery, creating a small lakes enhancement that I uploaded to Avsim and a couple of other sites.  I was an enthusiastic FSGenesis Galaxy member and had my FS2004 dialed in pretty nicely.

Admittedly I had fallen away from this community over the last six so years so I have lost touch with the buzzwords and the people.  I suspect it was Justin's many marketing emails, but suddenly I wanted to return.  This past week, I purchased another membership to FSGenesis' Galaxy level, a copy of FSX, and have sent off emails to Ultimate Terrain's Flight1 to find out if they offer discounted copies of their product to previous purchasers of UT for FS2004.

I am turning first to the FSGenesis community for help since I have roots here: What do you all consider essential add-ons for FSX that will make it much more immersive than the default product?  Here's my list so far:

1)  FSGenesis terrain mesh
2)  Ultimate Terrain (for landclass and shoreline corrections)
3)  FSUIPC  (to provide an interface into FSX)
4)  World of AI     (for more realistic AI traffic)
5)  EditVoicePack (to update the default voicepack to include other real airlines names)

What else?

1)  Weather generator?
2)  Excellent low and slow aircraft with 3D cockpits?
3)  Other scenery enhancements?

Thanks for reading and any ideas you might have.

Regards,

Peter