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X-Plane 10 HD Mesh Scenery v2 released!



The free (donationware!) X-Plane 10 HD Scenery Mesh v2 has been released after almost a year of work. It covers many of the "interesting" regions of the planet (over 55 Gbytes of data), covering:

• Europe (Iceland and Canaries included)
  
• USA (Hawaii included)
  
• Canada (most parts of it)
  
• Alaska

A coverage map can be found here:


It is an update to the older v1 HD Mesh (and a replacement of the default Global Scenery) and brings a lot of improvements to the simulator:

• It is a much higher resolution base mesh (more, smaller triangles) compared to the default Global Scenery which ships with X-Plane 10 (one could say: approximately 2-3-times more dense)
  
• The higher resolution mesh allows for a much more detailed representation of the elevation profile of the landscape
  
• The higher resolution mesh allows a much more detailed/exact representation of the underlying landclass data (because of the smaller triangles, which can follow landclass changes in the raw data more closely)
  
• It is based on a completely new Openstreetmap (OSM) data (approximately end of September 2013), which brings (compared to default Global Scenery) a lot of improvements in:
  
  • water features (lakes, rivers, coastline) - many previously missing water features are now finally there
    
  • roads
    
  • railroads
    
  • power lines
    
  • urban park areas
• It includes line rivers from OSM (not just polygons as before) tagged waterway=river which improves the landscape in most regions quite a bit
  
• Uses improved urban zoning (thanks to improved algorithms in the scenery generator)
  
• Many smaller and larger landclass data improvements
  
  • completely replaced the landclass data for Canada (big improvements)
    
  • improved forest density representation in Europe (changed the sparse / dense classification)
    
  • some new classes added (in many regions), like: moraines, riverbeds, mining/dump sites
    
  • added differentiation between ice (perennial) and snow (more temporal) to have an even more detailed representation of mountains
    
  • dded differentiation between irrigated / non-irrigated crops (in some regions - like the USA etc.)
• Completely replaced the elevation data with viewfinderpanoramas.org (if yew have a few cents, donate to that guy!). This doesn't changes much in areas which were already great, but fixes some which were really hosed.

One important prerequisite: to make this scenery work, you MUST have at least X-Plane version 10.25 (beginning with 10.25 beta1)!

A large selection of screenshots can be found here:

• Europe: https://picasaweb.go...feat=directlink
  
• North America: https://picasaweb.go...feat=directlink

All informations, possible updates, installation instructions, and download links can be found here:

I would recommend you to start with 1 or 2 smaller regions first. Install it, test it, and only then come back later for more. Don't expect to have all of the scenery at once!
http://www.alpilotx....cenery-mesh-v2/

And a I would to thank www.flightsim.com for making it possible to host a project of this size!

Andras Fabian
www.alpilotx.net