Comments on: Scenery Enhancement From AlpilotX and XFlyer

By: Jan Vogel

Jan Vogel — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:29:31 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Thats great to hear - thanks and merry Christmas, Ben and Team!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:20:11 +0000

In reply to Jan Vogel.

Hi Jan,

They’re working on pouring the next big slosh now – hopefully it will be really soon.

By: Jan Vogel

Jan Vogel — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:08:55 +0000

I am extremely happy with the new version of the HD scenery – especially seeing the “airport boundaries” getting honoured for the airports I uploaded to the gateway – now these runways are usable and the whole airports look better! Thanks again.

On another note, Ben, when will you guys pour the next big slosh of airports from the scenery gateway into the X-Plane world? It´s been MONTHS since the initial 750 were included, and many hundreds of airports are waiting – from my understanding there is very little to “do” except include them into an updated “global airports” folder, and the total upload size should be very small.

I have done almost 100 airports since 10.25, all in good quality and 3D for my fellow X-Plane pilots to enjoy , so I am a bit disappointed that they are just rotting away on the gateway…

Jan

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:20:16 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Thank you Ben i will looking forward fot this futures, so any time estimation i will apreciate it. Best wishes and happy winter holidays!!!!

By: Andras Fabian

Andras Fabian — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:04:35 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

Ben has already correctly analyzed the situation … so no, sorry, there is no “easy” way to “cheaply” update thins, as too much has changed inside all the DSFs.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:23:30 +0000

In reply to Sean.

I think I can answer this for alpilotx: There’s going to be 0% savings by going from v2 to v3.

Basically when you recut a DSF with even slightly changed data, the entire DSF changes, because the triangulation of the mesh will completely rebuild itself around the new input data. The DSF is then heavily bit-packed; the end result is going to be a completely different DSF even for minor input data. So there’s no shortcut here.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:18:45 +0000

Nice work! But I want to know if there is a way to update HD Mesh Scenery v2 from v3 version easily, I mean I have downloaded the whole files of v2 version, so I don’t want to download it again just for updating to v3 version. Is there a program (like X-Plane updating program) that can analyze those files of v2 version I have downloaded and then downloading files which have been replaced or is a new file in v3 version from the Internet.

Thanks!

By: Stephen Dutton

Stephen Dutton — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:01:04 +0000

I have loved the immersion of these winter textures, if the default simulator can be improved with Albert’s work then it would certainly be a great feature as it keeps everything in one house, two things would have to be part of the prosess in the transition from the heavy snow to the more default textures instead of the hard line would be a nice advancement, and you don’t really need heavy White snow at the southern areas of the world because jo’berg and Melbourne rarely get that sort of blanket stuff you get in the north.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:50:48 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. I can live with maybe! The planned improvements to the long distance views at altitude are more important anyway. :) That will *really* make Andras' terrain look awesome!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 20:45:57 +0000

In reply to Steve.

Maybe – it’s generally harder to get generic scenery/shader features into OBJ8 than the rest of the scenery system.

But again, I’m looking to do seasons with dataref driven -library entries-, not dataref driven tetxures.