Experience Vancouver Island!
This mod contains customized height profiles for Vancouver Island, an island in British Columbia, Canada. The mod contains high definition LIDAR DEM data with a mesh resolution of 15m. 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. It also already includes most airports excluded from height modification.
INSTALLATION
PLEASE NOTE: This mod has 3 download options. The default option is just the northern portion of the island. Option 2 is just the southern portion of the island. Option 3 is both the northern and southern portions of the island. I split it up this way because in World Update 2, Microsoft enhanced some of the elevation maps for the southern portion of the island. So the default mesh may be higher resolution than the mod, or cause weird issues. In my testing, I didn't find any issues and the mod resolution did seem to improve the scenery.
Whichever option you choose, choose only 1. If you decide to switch, just delete the mod from the community folder and add the new option.
Just unzip the downloaded file and place the unzipped file into your community file.
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 high resolution mesh covering Vancouver Island. The elevation data is applied through terraforming rectangles, thus loaded at a certain distance from the player. When travelling fast or at high altitude (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
Please report any bugs with sceneries or airports and I will see what I can do!
Credits
The elevation data used was a LIDAR 15m height profile of Vancouver Island from the government of Canada (https://maps.canada.ca/czs/index-en.html). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
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!
Thank you Troglodytus for your help!
Enjoy your VFR flights above Vancouver Island!
5 months ago
BPieke
Happy to report that 😊 SU10 has removed the stutters I was getting..
2 years ago
BPieke
There are some performance issues with each of these meshes and SU7. They work, and I haven't CTD'd, but since installing whenever I am flying over the region I get regular chop and audio cuts. It stops after removing the mesh which I've done as I fly a lot in the area and I was getting a little bit frustrating. Note - this isn't a bash on this product, it's a job very well done. It just has some issues with SU7. Still much respect for the work though. Cheers
2 years ago
There appear to be stutter issues with various mesh addons, since the latest SU or WU.. Hopefully, someone can troubleshoot what is causing this. It is just annoying enough to make this excellent mesh questionable. I really do not want to turn it off, since the coastline where I live is borked without it..
2 years ago
BPieke
AHal
I love this mesh since I live on Vancouver Island, however I have just got the lovely Qualicum Beach CAT4 airport and notice that the airport is very bumpy..
https://flightsim.to/file/13930/cat4-qualicum-beach-airport
Is there any way, you can go back and flatten the area?
Edit: RTMM fix just arrived.. no need for action.
https://flightsim.to/file/22292/cat4-qualicum-beach-airport-flatten-for-use-with-vancouver-mesh
2 years ago
BPieke
Beautiful scenery but...could just be me but after WU6, the sim gets stuck at the loading screen. The bar goes to full, then stops. Happens to most of the DEM
3 years ago
bvoeing
Can't say it works properly in newest update for me flying east out of Port Alberni - on east coast side of VI south of Comox - there is several water height issues where there are a series of grid like elevation changes in water. - Hope you can get it back ro where it should be - though global update is promising multiple elevation fixes and meshes.
3 years ago
72VirginExpress
Amazing!
Does anyone know how to fix the water height issue in the Gorge area of Victoria?
3 years ago
I think the exclude is too large and thats why we are seeing it.
3 years ago
GBOAC
Premium
Cmac72
Premium
Hi Victoria Photogrammetry is now working fine for me, however, I am unsure if it is too large an exclude as Portage Inlet is now like the default scenery and has cliffs around it - anyone else noticed it? (Icebergs are back for me but that is a clash with another add on I need to invest) just hoping someone else may of noticed the Icebergs and found a fix. Thanks again great work. The BC DEM is FAB! to go with it.
3 years ago
Portage Inlet is inside the exclusion zone. I couldn't find a map of which areas of Victoria included photogrammetry so I included a pretty large area. I'm working on some other updates for the scenery now so I can exclude Portage Inlet from the exclusion zone 😃
3 years ago
PlaneGuy04
GBOAC
Right now 1.2 is same as 1.1 evidently ? Same file name same exact size? I sure am excited to try 1.2 👍👍👌
3 years ago
The only update with 1.2 was excluding the city of Victoria because a few people were having issues with missing photogrammetry. I don't think that would affect the final file size, but I'll test it later just to be sure 😃
3 years ago
PlaneGuy04
BostonElf
As yet another Vancouver Islander (Campbell River to be exact), this is simply amazing. This fixes an artifact in the water I have noticed when flying around McIvor Lake.
3 years ago
Tordomino
I live in Courtenay and fly out of Comox, in sim and irl (as a passenger). There are so many things missing in the sim. It will be great to see my favourite hiking spots closer to reality. Thanks for taking this on and I look forward to seeing what you do with the rest of BC.
3 years ago
Canuckshaw
Just tested V1.1. and CAM3 has indeed been fixed, now I am a really happy camper!
Thank you, one more time..
3 years ago
You're welcome, enjoy!
3 years ago
PlaneGuy04
BPieke
Excellent - So glad you did this as I fly VI a lot since its my home rock - Port Alberni specifically - there was a lot wrong here from an elevation point of view so many kudos and karmas for you. Do you do scenery packs as well cause all the cities need a tweak too.
3 years ago
For now I'm focusing on making these elevation packages. Maybe in the future I will try my hand at a city package.
3 years ago
PlaneGuy04
72VirginExpress
Hi and thank you for the addon. I am somewhat confused about the files to download. You offer Main file (ver 1.1), Full (Ver 1.0) and South (Ver 1.0). What is the difference between Main and full please. It used to be Full, North and South which was pretty clear. Thx for clarifying. Greetz,
Robert
3 years ago
The "main" file is the north portion only. Full is the north and south portion. I don't know why it's showing the title of the north portion as "Main File". I'll try and reupload later and see if that fixes it.
3 years ago
PlaneGuy04
Robair996
Amazing! Thanks for doing this. Looking forward to more BC locations.
3 years ago
hallidave