I’ve now finished processing the new mesh, which should be available soon.
This mesh, made from DEMs provided by Barf (thanks Barf!) covers Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. The polygons building the landscape will now vary depending on where you are.
The amount of space required to cover all of New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands is over 300GB.
Queenstown in particular can look quite striking with it’s surrounding mountains.
The shotover river has some problems too. If you look at this with the standard mesh, the river has some issues not being too flat.
It looks a lot better now:
I’ll release the new packs soon. I’m not sure if I should just re-release the scenery with these changes, or make new packs with just the UHD quality tiles.
Some people may not want the bigger, higher quality mesh, so keeping them separate might be a good idea.
Categories: Flight Simulation
New airport: NZKM Karamea 
Planting seeds 
Landing now: Lyndiman NZ Ortho 2025 is now available. 
Sounds like a good idea 
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Separate packs is preferable; I can’t bear the thought of another two or three days watching the whole lot download on my snail-pace torrent -)
I agree – separate packs for this upgrade if possible, please.
For me, it’s the download time plus the time and disc-space choreography required to get everything into the right place and other stuff backed up 🙂
– Chris
Awesome, thanks so much for all your amazing work on this @lyndiman!!!
Hi,
I’ll be visiting New Zealand very soon for the first time, in the mean time I’ve been trying to use your hard work to enjoy some flying in X-plane 11. I’m struggling with some issues but I’m slowly sorting them out. Question I have is, do I need your UHD mesh or the one from AI pilot is the same ? Do the orthos (ex. zOrtho4XP_-38+174) already have it built in ?
By the way awesome work, well worth supporting unlike some payware out there.
Thank you so much.