Simviation Forum - World Terrain Mesh for FSX

Aug 11^th, 2009 at 7:37am

Tomaz Offline
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I'm going to buy one World Terrain Mesh... there are two I found.. FSGenesis World Terrain Mesh and FS Global 2008. Both are supposed to cover the same area on 76m resolution, Alps on 19m. So, here's the catch.. first one costs $19.95 and the second one costs $85!!! I don't know why is FS Global almost 4 times as expensive as FSGenesis mesh. Any ideas?

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Reply #1 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 2:06pm

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In general the global meshes are produced from the same source data (SRTM). The problem is that these source data a lot of voids that have to be filled by interpolation. Depending on the method used (and the amount of manual adjustments) the result can be quite different. In one mesh the resolution of mountain peaks may be better while another has bettern coastlines (to give a rough example). It is often hard to say one mesh is better than another - they are just different.

I have FS Global and I am quite satisfied with it except for some parts in Norway where I found it to be not very good. I think it may be more expensive as it is including both the FS9 and the FSX version on separate DVDs.

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Reply #2 - Aug 12^th, 2009 at 2:46am

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Thank you but I understand all that.. the only thing I don't understand is the price! I know you also get FS9 mesh with FS Global 2008 but 4 times the price of FSGenesis mesh? 4 times.. why?

Power Supply: LC8850 850W
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Reply #3 - Aug 12^th, 2009 at 3:15pm

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What about this one?...£28....>>>

http://flightsimx.flightstore.co.uk/prod/CONFSGX/

Paul...G-BPLF...and FS Global SE for FS 2004...

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Reply #4 - Aug 13^th, 2009 at 3:13am

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Thank's man! I'll order it today.

It's interesting how the same product costs €72 in one place (Simmarket) and €32 somewhere else (Flightsimx Flightstore).

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Reply #5 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 3:20am

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Once again, thanks for the info, I ordered it and waiting for the postman

The price was right, almost 30€ cheaper than in Simmarket for the same product.

Power Supply: LC8850 850W
Motherboard: GA-EX58-UD4
CPU: i7 920 @ 4GHz
Memory: MMUSHKIN 3x2GB HP3-12800 DDR3 3x2GB 1600MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD10EADS "Caviar ® Green™" 1000 GB Serial ATAII cache 32 MB
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Reply #6 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 3:32am

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Tomaz wrote on Aug 18^th, 2009 at 3:20am:

Once again, thanks for the info, I ordered it and waiting for the postman

The price was right, almost 30€ cheaper than in Simmarket for the same product.

Excellent, Tomaz!... Smiley

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It does make a BIG improvement to the Default Scenery Mesh...

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..and you don't have to keep downloading and installing individual Meshes to suit different areas...FS Global does it all in one go!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004.... Cool

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