I was just looking at marinetraffic.com. I was wondering if we possible to intergrate their data for ships location, speed and direction in to X-plane. Just an idea, I know you fellows are busy. Cheers!

Your second possibility is great, but don’t solve the problem related by this topic…
My solution/idea simplify the work on scenery, especially by a community… if two (or more) guys works on the same tile. And, as you said, meshtool “choose” the points… by my experience meshtool don’t choose two times the same points, and there comes problems with tile borders.

sorry my bad english 😉
Best Regards.

I think we are getting there…not for v10, but it is something I am looking at. It’s tricky because a large amount of the x-plane scenery system provides capabilities on top of the irregular mesh.

One possibility is to continue with a pre-cut, relatively low res irregular mesh, but then allow tessellation hardware to increase the res using a traditional linear DEM. DX11 hardware has a fairly high max tessellation factor, good throughput, and it does realtime LOD well.

Maybe it’s time to separate the mesh from vector data ?
All vectors draped over the mesh, with LOD’s… more above mesh when far from camera, and more “sticky” when close.