FSGenesis FSX Terrain Mesh 2

by mark.avey on January 25, 2008

FSGenesis has made available their FSX Terrain Mesh 2 product:

The first version 2 file is now available for download. This area covers significant portions of Washington and Oregon.

If you have previously purchased either North America Terrain for FSX or the FSX Bundle, simply log into your FSG Store account and click My FSX Downloads.

Version 2 features

The most prominent feature of version 2 is the addressing of the plateaus on which many airports are sitting in version 1. This plateau effect is not caused by the terrain mesh, per se, but by the flat-airport limitation of FSX. However, FSGenesis has developed a reasonably satisfactory method to deal with this issue globally without having to fix many thousands of individual airports manually.

Additionally, vertical resolution has been increased from 1 meter in v. 1 to .25 meter in v. 2, which will create a more pleasing display of terrain elevations while eliminating any terracing effects seen in version 1.

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