Following the announcement last week, Orbx has released British Isles Mesh for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Orbx says that this package covers a vast area in and around Britain itself. It will cover all of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Northern Isles and around 6,000 smaller islands around the North Atlantic. High-resolution data has been used to fill the gaps in the existing scenery, correct terrain spikes and improve the level of detail interpolation in Scotland and other areas.
It has been developed Dymtro Krykunov. He says that Ireland in particular has a focus on improving the accuracy of the terrain. Using a new mesh from ALOS satellite DEMO data, the scenery is much more realistic. Over 200 locations are now added with 2m/pix resolution.
You can pick up your copy from OrbxDirect for $14.49 AUD (approximately US$9.72 | €8,91 | £7.68).
Features
- A variety of DEM data (including Digital Terrain Models) have been processed
- Low-resolution areas in the current MSFS terrain mesh have been filled
- Gaps were filled with airborne LiDAR data, with 2-m resolution in Ireland and 1-m resolution elsewhere
- Mountainous upland ranges also have received high-quality DEM data
- Spikes and other visual issues along tile boundaries have been reduced
- Raster data were compiled into CGL format, to prevent conflict with the default coastline vector data
- The combined source data were processed to minimize LOD popping
- Fully self-contained product with minimal performance impact
- Compatible with other Orbx GB products and MSFS World Updates
