Fs2004 Srtm Global Terrain Map Of Africa

I'm not actually sure if it's mesh or not. What I'm looking for is a better terrain representation in the FS world. For example: I have been building Area-51 and a lot of the hills around the base are either not there or not represented the way they should be. I had to flatten the terrain in order to build the base. The dry lake (Groom Lake) wasn't even depicted.

I have a sat overlay that puts the dry lake bed there which looks awesome. I use a lot and went to a hill that you can observe Area-51 in real life. I wrote down the coordinates and altitude and put my plane in slew mode to those exact coordinates and height. I was expecting to be at the top of a mountain but I was just floating above the ground with no mountain to speak of. So mesh or better terrain would help I think. I do have Ultimate Terrain installed though. I just moved my 26 GB install to the FS directory so not sure if UT is there or not.

Since Canada alone is such an advantage over FS Global 2010, we decided to have the FS2004 version in. We will however switch to FSX only versions in the future, because we can no more improve FS2004. But we CAN improve FSX. So guys, go for FSX! Honestly, it is so much better and FS Global lives up in this version of FS. Coverage Map.

If it has registry dependencies then I would have to reinstall UT. Last edited by CRJ_simpilot; at 11:55 PM. Hi _simpilot, As far as improving stock FS topographical mesh, there are a number of freeware terrain. That will add data points for things like mountains and hills, but it will not change the texture. Vizitka dlya maljchika na konkurs.

As you mentioned, UTX and GEX for FSX (don't know about FS9), changes the texture. MegaScenery is also great for adding photorealistic scenery. I only fly MegaScenery for FSX now. The FS9 MegaScenery doesn't look as good or perform as well as FSX. BlueSkyScenery has freeware FS9 and FSX scenery. It will give the area the right texture, actually it is a photo on-top of the terrain.

Default FS9 is something like 1200 meters (a data point every 1200 meters). There is a freeware 70m SRTM for the whole world, it is alright. It creates blue holes and slivers in many areas that there is missing data for, but it improves the scenery overall. There is 38m for the US for free for FS9. It improves the terrain even better than the 70m. I wouldn't fly FS9 without it.

There is also 19m freeware mesh for Alaska and Hawaii. Here are the links for the mesh (They are huge downloads, use FlashGet to download each file. You can leave your computer on overnight, set it to download 2 maximum active at a time, or they will become corrupted).

You won't regret spending the time to download at least the US. Hills that aren't noticeable stock, become the right size and shape with 38m. Mountains will be close to same shape as real life. With BlueSkyScenery on-top, it will look photo real (as best as FS9 can do). I switched to FSX from FS9, and I use the latest photoscenery with 10m mesh, it is hard to fly with FS9 now. For the US 38.2 M Terrain Mesh, search flightsim.com files section for: '/Justin Tyme.'

There are 9 pages of files to download. Skip the 3 combination downloads. They forgot to upload the 4th combination one. Just download each individual part (the combination ones are gigantic, you'll be downloading the same thing twice and missing a part). For the Alaska and Hawaii, search flightsim.com files section. I can't remember what it is called. For the 70m world, see: This site has a bunch of mesh: You have to put the in the the FS9 Scenery World Scenery folder (I think, I use FSX now).