Simheaven Scenery Question

[Hopkinsstevea]

Can someone clarify for me which Simheaven Scenery I should download is it the OSM Scenery or the Photo Scenery and do you still need to download the  “X-Plane 10 HD Scenery Mesh v2″ Scenery. I find there website and instruction a little confusing and if the truth be known I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box. 

Thanks 

 

 

[Agrajag]

Depends on what you want to do. First, SimHeaven has different areas. I mainly use his "Cities". Those include HD Mesh v2. So, I do download HD Scenery Mesh v2 for surrounding areas but then remove it for cities I get from SimHeaven. 

 

The cities I then load as middle priority. HD Mesh lowest, SimHeaven middle and then any airport stuff on top.

 

One thing to be aware of. There's currently an issue with HD Scenery Mesh v2 that is known and being addressed at some point. alpilotx didn't filter out some things from the OSM data that should have been. Thus, unless you're comfortable with using WED to do exclusions (I'm not), you'll have defunct trains running across airports and, more likely, cars and trucks driving all over the airports as "service roads" were included and the game renders those as full roads. It's a bit distracting for now. Once that gets filtered out, this combination will be incredible.

[Hopkinsstevea]

Agrajag

Thanks very much for your help I do appreciate your response very much , I haven't been deleting any HD Scenery Mesh v2 files so that could be why I am having problems. Do you notice that X-plane loads slower once the HD Scenery Mesh v2 scenery is installed ? It takes forever for it to load on my machine 

Again thanks for your help

Steve H

[Agrajag]

Absolutely it takes longer. You're replacing very basic default data with highly detailed information. The real delay comes from photo sceneries. I had to give them up last year until I moved X-Plane and all its data to an SSD drive. Now it loads in 90 seconds or less. Before it was taking many minutes to load.

[Hopkinsstevea]

I have a really High powered machine a water cooled I7 4770 K - 32 Gb Ram and two water cooled  titans in SLI mode everything running off of SSD's. Its still slow to load I do however have "all" the HD Scenery Mesh v2 on one SSD and i mean all of it. Would it be better to have only the areas I fly in the Custom Scenery folder and the rest on a backup drive ?

[Agrajag]

I don't believe the game loads all custom scenery but it might. I'm no expert there. That might be worth looking into. If that IS the case then we need a utility to load before we actually launch the game that simply creates a scenery.ini file that fits the session you're going to fly in. I'm pretty sure that the data being in the Custom Scenery folder is irrelevant if there's no entry for it in the INI file, or better yet it's disabled with the "_DISABLED" command.

[AeroPictor]

 

Agrajag I think I read somewhere that the system is updating itself that means that it creates new entries when it finds stuff not listed in the ini file. At least it is so I understood the presentation of the scenery_packs.ini file on blog pages of Laminar.  

[Agrajag]

Now that you say that, I realize that's true. It does update that which is why I used the _DISABLED entry. Good point. That looks like this:

 

SCENERY_PACK_DISABLED Custom Scenery/KSEA Demo Terrain/

 

I disable the above as I use other terrain for that area and this demo terrain gets in the way. The same approach can work for anything.

[doebro2010]

took away my question

 

I asked somewhere else

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kr

Edited March 24, 2014 by doebro2010