Experience Switzerland!
This mod contains customized height profiles for Switzerland. The mod contains high definition LIDAR DEM data with a mesh resolution of 20m, whereas the MSFS uses a lateral resolution of about 50m or worse. The height resolution is as good as 0.1m.
The mod does not only provide mountain shapes being very close to reality, but also flattens lakes & rivers and gets rid of any terrain artifacts.
Update 1.2:
Additionally included are 3 extreme LIDAR meshes with a resolution of 1m for Matterhorn, 2m for Jungrau-Aletsch region and 2m Säntis.
If you suffer any major stutters or problems, simply delete these 3 folders!
IMPORTANT
Disclaimer: The creator of this mod is not responsible for any problems, damage, incompatibilites to other mods or performance issues that might occur.
Please note, that this mod is a very high resolution mesh covering the whole of Switzerland. The elevation data is applied through terraforming rectangles, thus loaded at a certain distance from the player. When travelling fast or at high alitude (wide range of view) there might be too many new rectangles loaded simultaneously and thus stutters might occur.
If you have any stutters you can try and reduce your ingame render settings or uninstall!
If you are mainly flying airliners in high altitude, there is probably no benefit for you in using this mod.
Affected Sceneries
As it stands, the famous Matterhorn mountain, is extremely realistic on the Swiss side, but has bumps on the Italian side. I hope you will excuse this glitch for the time being.
Please report any bugs with sceneries or airports and I will see what I can do!
If you use the Austria DEM as well, you can rename the folder "troglodytus-demswitzerland..." into "aaa-troglodytus-demswitzerland". This way in overlapping regions the higher quality Austrian mesh will be used.
Credits
The elevation data used was a LIDAR 20m height profile of Switzerland compiled by Sonny (http://data.opendataportal.at/dataset/a949dd6f-9f19-4727-872c-b70d35adb550)
It was then transfered into MSFS using MSFS Toolkit by Nool Aerosystems (https://msfs.nool.ee/)
Thank you both and for anyone reading this: Please go ahead and support them!
Enjoy your VFR flights above Switzerland!
Do you still support this mod? Or is it obsolete because of MS Updates? Since SU08 I'm experiencing major stutters when using your DEM mods.
2 years ago
yes im getting the same with fsdreamteams switzerland mesh unplayable stutters, think this is an asobo fix
2 years ago
Funkster77
CmdrJk
Hi Troglodytus
Can you please exclude the LSZC Buochs region?
Because with the new Flylogic Buochs Scenery the Mesh in Buochs is absolutly messed up.
Thanks, and maybe it would be possible to fix the sinkhole behind the Pilatus Aircraft Factory on Bürgenstock?
Thanks a lot
best regards
2 years ago
trickedlist
which one would you prefer? The standart DACH scenery or your mesh?
2 years ago
I personally still use the DEMs, as the generic mesh tends to pop and flicker when flying close to ground. I am sure you have whitnessed the effect of this ground "morphin" as you got closer to it. This effect is reduced with this mod.
2 years ago
Troglodytus
trickedlist
Hallo, wenn steht "installation noch offen" im Inhaltsmanager, ist das ein Problem?
2 years ago
Servus, das habe ich leider noch nie gehört oder gelesen. Magst Du mir vielleicht einen Screenshot davon per Nachricht schicken? Vielleicht kann ich dir dann besser weiterhelfen!
Danke!
2 years ago
Troglodytus
gutfrero
Sorry for this weird request, but do you think a patch of the "extreme" resolution mesh could "fix" the Hirschensprung in the Alpine Rhine Valley? It seems like it would be a fun challenge to fly through that chasm, but I guess we would have to be really, really lucky with the position of the data points, because it's so narrow.
coordinates: 47.303611, 9.547795
more info and pic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirschensprung
2 years ago
Thank you for the request, it looks really cool. I will see what I can do. No promises though!
2 years ago
Troglodytus
aurel42
After World Update 6 do recommendto use your DEMs of DACH? Or is stock better?
You did fantastic work on these DEms
2 years ago
Hello, thank you very much. I just have had a short period of testing, not enough to say anything conclusively. It seems as if the now default mesh is better in quality, however, there seem to be more "pop ins" of spikes.. have to test further!
2 years ago
Troglodytus
derstein98
Just installed this and I can't notice any difference. Flew to the Matterhorn and it looked like a lumpy mess! All I have to do is drag the folders into Community, yeah?
2 years ago
I tried pasting a screenshot here but it didn't work.
https://imgur.com/Lla36lu
2 years ago
P.Dig
P.Dig
Brillant work! Thank you!
Btw, can you help me with exporting Matterhorn scene to Blender? I failed to convert .bgl to .obj using ModelConverterX.
2 years ago
Thank you for your comment and your rating.
I don't quite understand what you mean though. What do you want to export?
2 years ago
Troglodytus
g_1
Merci pour ce partage
2 years ago
You are welcome!
2 years ago
Troglodytus
BEB17138
Hi Mr T....Stunning work mate..Flew over in VR In the H135 jaw dropping scenery..highly recommend all you scenerys...slight stutters only.
2 years ago
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoy!
2 years ago
Troglodytus
jagace
I created another finer model (10m resolution) of Sonny LIDAR DTMs of Switzerland. Perhaps this could be a benefit for Troglodytus' High-quality Scenerys of the rocky, alpine surroundings in Switzerland, like the 10m DEM-model of Austria did.
https://data.opendataportal.at/dataset/dtm-switzerland
3 years ago
Sonny2
Thank you for the great effort. You mentioned that If we use the Austria DEM as well, we can rename the folder "troglodytus-demswitzerland..." into "aaa-troglodytus-demswitzerland". This way in overlapping regions the higher quality Austrian mesh will be used. Can you explain what "aaa" mean in this case? Does this makes its mesh folder low priority?
3 years ago
Hi! Thanks for your comment. The overlap is in fact really small, its just a small optimization for mountains right on the border.
The reasoning is as follows: I have learned in the past that msfs loads all mods alphabetically. That is why I was affected very much from the „modellib“ issues. Some mods had faulty „modellib“ data and caused mods that were loaded after to fail. Thats why I am suggesting to rename switzerland to something very early in the alphabet. This way it is ensured the higher quality mesh gets loaded on top / after. Meshes can be given certain priorities, but in order to mess up as few 3rd party sceneries and mods as possible, I had to leave this priority setting at 0 for all meshes. So the only distinction between my meshes is the load order.
3 years ago
Troglodytus
yanlaoge
Im new to msfs 2020 how do you actually load the update into the program?
3 years ago
Not sure if I understand correctly. If you happen to have an older version of this mod installed, simply delete the folder from your community folder and copy the folder from the new download into the community folder. Simple as that :)
3 years ago
Troglodytus
swifty
Fantastic work! On my system Windows 10 21H1 (build 19043.1023) (MSFS 1.16.2.0) and nVidia graphics drivers 457.30 (for VR), the 1m Matterhorn mesh floats like an island above the normal terrain. I can actually fly under it. Any suggestions?
3 years ago
Thank you for your comment. Does it "pop" back into place, once you get really close to it?
That is an odd behaviour and should not happen. Can you message me a screenshot maybe?
3 years ago
Troglodytus
SkylaneMarty
Excellent job... this was what we were waiting for... THANKS !
There might be a little "bug" in LSGE (Ecuvillens in Switzerland): could you make the small correction needed to have the parking lots flat ? On the picture you can see there is a kind of slope appearing after installing your MOD, making impossible for the plane to get to the runway.. (do you have an email, so that I can send you the picture?)
3 years ago
Thank you very much. No need for the picture, I am just gonna exclude that airfield with the next update. That should then resolve the issue. Thank you for reporting. :)
3 years ago
Troglodytus
Gberthe