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Postby FridayChild » Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:29 pm

Is the GTMS gone for good? It's been offline for months now.
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Re: Global Terrain Mesh Scenery

Postby commoner » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:10 am

lol...mmm...last I heard from a certain person who shall be nameless.........was that it would be back real soon.........but that's a while ago now....Wish now that I'd got the whole caboodle  and stored it myself......commoner :-[
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Re: Global Terrain Mesh Scenery

Postby FridayChild » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:30 am

I've got the same "problem"... I really wish it would come back online in some way (filesharing included).
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Re: Global Terrain Mesh Scenery

Postby dave3cu » Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:28 am

As an alternative take a look at FSProject's freeware mesh.

Like GTMS, it provides world coverage at 76m. In addition there is 38m coverage for many areas including GB/Europe, USA, and BC. Also 19m coverage for western USA (Rockies to west coast) and the Alps.

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Re: Global Terrain Mesh Scenery

Postby Fozzer » Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:39 pm

When I only had a Dial-up connection I quickly realised that I could never download the whole scenery set in one go, so I purchased.....

"FS Global Special Edition" from JustFlight...>>>

http://www.justflight.com/product.asp?pid=39

..and I imagine it would take FOREVER to download Stephens whole set, even on Broadband....!

Live is much too short either way...;)...!

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Re: Global Terrain Mesh Scenery

Postby commoner » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:37 am

Hi dave...Just got the UK area and it looks super.........no doubt about it...the only thing I would say is that the areas are too big...huge downloads in some cases well over 200MB.......ok with fast broadband but impossible otherwise.............love it.........commoner ;)
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Re: Global Terrain Mesh Scenery

Postby commoner » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:53 am

...You can forget the last post if you like...'cos the SRTM files are BACK ON LINE!...........commoner ;D

http://www.simviation.com/fsdterrainsrtm.htm
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Re: Global Terrain Mesh Scenery

Postby Fozzer » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:34 am

With reference to Just Flight's FS Global SE scenery mesh,
an interesting bit of information from Just Flight...
...Compatibility...>>>

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FS Terrain and FS Global SE (For FS2004)

As the default mesh in FSX is of the same LOD (level of detail) as these titles, they are now redundant in FSX.
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Presumably this also applies to Steve's SRTM scenery files with reference to FSX...?

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Re: Global Terrain Mesh Scenery

Postby FridayChild » Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:02 pm

Hooray, it's back, it's back!  :D
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