Hi there.

I understand there is a public domain terrain mesh with ca 30m resolution hosted on simviation.com. Also there is commercial meshes for various natural parks and the United States available.

There is a very impressive commercial textures package called "MegaScenery" that provides 5m satellite imagery for specific regions of the United States (currently L.A./San Diego and New York). As far as I understand this does not improve the terrain mesh resolution.

Is there a way to combine the high resolution meshes with the satellite textures? Has anyone ever done this? How would one set up or modify the directory structure to combine a mesh with a texture set from different vendors?

Howdy:

Ivan is correct, there's no magic to doing this. In fact, all the files could reside in the same scenery/texture folders since add-on photoreal textures and mesh are different things - the former defines the texture on top of a surface the latter its shape. Nevertheless, it's always a good thing to keep files from different sources/providers in different folders until you're certain they work well together.

One thing to keep in mind is that photoreal textures are often designed for a specific mesh, default or other (I believe the MegaScenery files come with a separate add-on mesh) and using a different mesh might have strange results, particularly with respect to water features.

Also, it's not that difficult to make photoreal scenery yourself; here are two links to my recent experiments:

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=123&topic_id=14554&mesg_...

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=143&topic_id=16702&mesg_...

Cheers, Holger