Mesh Conflicts?

[Matthew *EFC-779*]

Will MF conflict with Eddie Denny's 38 metre mesh for Alaska?

[Francois Dumas]

Not if you follow the instructions in the (rather extensive) manual

[davidvoogd]

Does this apply to the FSGenesis 38m Cordillera Canada mesh? I didn't change anything and haven't noticed any problems yet.

[Francois Dumas]

Misty Fjords does not 'conflict' with other mesh, as long as you make sure you have the proper order in the scenery.cfg file and use the 20-setting of the terrain_vortex level. Please check the manual when in doubt (can even be downladed BEFORE buying the product).

[alastairmonk1]

Hi Francois,

Just so its absolutely clear (and I have read the manual) for the Misty Fjords mesh to take priority over the FSGenesis Cordillera Canada mesh, which, by default, is installed in \FS2004\Scenery\World\Scenery, which has a very low priority in the listings, a separate folder should be created for the FSGenesis Canada mesh and placed in a higher priority listing.

Thus my current scenery.cfg list looks like this:

[area.001]
Texture_ID=1
Title=Default Terrain
Active=TRUE
Layer=1
Local=Scenery\World <---- FSGenesis mesh
Required=TRUE
Remote=

(break)

[Area.201]
Title=Misty Fjords Landsca
Local=FSAddon\Misty Fjords\Misty Fjords landscape
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=201
Remote=

[Area.202]
Title=Misty Fjords Scenery
Local=FSAddon\Misty Fjords\Misty Fjords scenery
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=202
Remote=

[Area.203]
Title=Canada Mesh
Local=..\Scenery\Canada\Canada Mesh <--- transplanted Cordillera Canada mesh files
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=203

Thanks,

Alastair

[BC_Holger]

Hi Alastair,

that is exactly what you need to do - thanks for providing all the information which will allow others to use it as an example!

I've attached a screenshot of the top part of my scenery library to give a more visual aid as well.

Cheers, Holger

[PhilC]

Misty Fjords Canneries????? I think I missed something.

[BC_Holger]

Hi Phil,

that's my "code name" for Bill Dick's very nice freeware add-ons but I currently only have the beta files. Looking forward to the final release!

Cheer,s Holger

[BC_Holger]

Me again,

I just checked Raimondo Taburet's freeware Alaska mesh against Misty Fjords and they definitely don't match well. His files seem to be offset by about 150 meters against my mesh files and thus create all sorts of sunken lakes and steep cliffs. It's not as visible in Ketchikan itself but most other places look odd.

To avoid these visual conflicts, please make sure that you place Raimondo's mesh files in a separate folder, add it to your Scenery Library, and keep it *above* the two Misty Fjords entries, as in my screenshot above.

If you don't remember where you placed his mesh files, check either "FS9\Addon Scenery\scenery" or "FS9\Scenery\Base\Scenery". The mesh files are many MB each and include their spatial extent in the name, such as "n57w133_n54w130.bgl" or "n60w137_n57w134.bgl"

Cheers, Holger

[gmazzei]

Hi Holger,

Some sceneries need to have a priority level higher than the relative mesh but that is impossible if I have to put those meshes at the highest levels.

My question is: is it safe to put all the meshes (including MF) at lower priority levels just maintaining the other meshes for Alaska at a higher level than MF ?

Many thanks in advance

[Bill Dick]

I noticed in the photo of the order in which Alastair has hisinstalled or in order, he has the MF landclass ahead of the MF scenery, When I had mine like this I had lines or ridges of land running across the water. When I reversed them , as you suggested Holger they were gone. My question is, if his is exactly the right way to have this, then I must have it wrong? That is the way I had mine, but is didn't work for me. ----confused

[BC_Holger]

Hi there,

Guido, I'm not 100% sure I understand your question. Mesh files are independent of the other scenery elements (lakes, roads, buidlings, etc.) an add-on may contain but, as with Misty Fjords, the mesh files may be included in the same folder as the scenery elements and I guess that's what your question is about. My comments above are specific to Misty Fjords in relation to other LOD10 (38-m) add-on mesh (FSGlobal 2005, for example, is LOD9 (76m) and the Misty Fjords mesh will automatically override it, no matter where it sits in the Scenery Library). For all other add-ons you should always refer to the instructions provided by the author.

The two Misty Fjords entries don't have to be at the top of your Scenery Library, they can be moved further down as long as they stay above the default entries (the bottom 38 entries) and MF scenery remains above MF landscape.

Bill, the confusion stems from the fact that the entries in the scenery.cfg file appear to be in the opposite order to what one sees in the Scenery Library. However, a higher "Layer=" value in the scenery.cfg means that entry is located higher in the Scenery Library. Thus, Alastair partial printout of his scenery.cfg is correct as is my screenshot of the Scenery Library. As long as the order of the Misty Fjords scenery entries looks like in my screenshot of the Scenery Library you should not have any issues with shorelines etc.

Cheers, Holger

[mouk]

Hi Holger

I suppose I had a conflict with terrain mesh on MF
so I uninstalled Cordillera Mesh.
Here is what happened
What can I do ?

Jean Rene Casene
mouk

[BC_Holger]

Hi Jean,

those are the default landscape files active together with the new ones provided by Misty Fjords.

Open your "FS9\Scenery\Namw\scenery" folder and double-click on "Misty.bat". Doing so should rename 13 default *.bgl files in that folder to *.bak. Here's the list of those files in case Misty.bat doesn't work as intended:

UT912120.bak
ST913120.bak
ST913110.bak
ST912120.bak
RR913120.bak
RD913120.bak
RD912120.bak
HP913120.bak
HP913110.bak
HP912120.bak
HL913120.bak
HL913110.bak
HL912120.bak

Hope that helps.

Cheers, Holger

[mouk]

It's OK Holger thanks

Jean Rene Cadene