Experience British Columbia!
This mod contains customized height profiles for the entirety of 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 includes over 150 airports excluded from height modification.
INSTALLATION
PLEASE NOTE: This mod has 2 files. Download both files to get complete coverage.
Just unzip the downloaded files and place the unzipped files into your community folder.
IMPORTANT: There is a second part to this mod, available here. After downloading both mods, you should have 4 files!
There is a separate mod for Vancouver Island, available here.
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 British Columbia. 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. To my knowledge, this is the largest area available using the heightmap method for elevation. Therefore, it could be very buggy or cause bad performance. In my testing, I saw a minor performance impact, but your results may vary. A common issue is stutters when new rectangles are loaded, so that may be more common with this mod, since there are so many rectangles.
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.
Scenery Issues
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 British Columbia 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 British Columbia!
Hi,
Would like to confirm the GBOAC comment about this addon being the source of stuttering. While flying a flight from Skagway (PAGY) to Juneau (PAJN) in Alaska I experienced quite a bit of stuttering so I began isolating addons to find the source of it and this addon was it. I had previously removed all DEM addons but had missed this one until flying in the area the addon covered.
As an observation others should know it may not be just an issue with this developer because using any DEM addon has produced similar headaches in MSFS from my own experience. I had previously loaded DEM addons for the ALPs and got the same results, stutters to the max. Put simply, MSFS doesn't play well with DEM addons so, it might be advisable if you experience extreme stuttering to deactivate (or remove) any DEM addon that might be covering the area your flying in and see if the issue disappears. When I'm not using DEM addons my sim runs smooth as silk so I tend to avoid using any DEM addons at all unless maybe someone discovers why DEM mods are upsetting the sim.
2 years ago
NCHawk5018
Love this add on, but since MSFS Update VIII when flying around the Vancouver Area the stutters now make the sim unflyable. Are you able to assist? Thanks in advance.
2 years ago
GBOAC
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
Respect for the great work -I have the same issues since WU7.
2 years ago
Berni374
AHal
great job PlaneGuy, is it possible you could do ALASKA?
3 years ago
JNBennett64
First of all, I want to thank you for these great elevation data, they literally transform one of my favourite areas.
However, I must note that when getting to Bella Coola with a CJ4 or TBM there will be massive stutters if coming from, e.g., Vancouver.
Is there some sort of map so I can decide which parts of the various bgls to keep?
As a side note, I don't have the same problem using Troglodytus 20mt mesh for the Alps, probably the resolution of 15mt could be reduced to 20mt?
But, again, thank you for these collections.
3 years ago
quelcertoleo
Any chance of a Alaska Mesh 10m, 15m, 20m ? Would that be possible ?
Thanks for your work 😊
3 years ago
jvr009
Seems to cause a CTD around the Vancouver area for me.
3 years ago
Jadeguy2
Incredible add-on for someone who loves the Rockies. However I have a question, does this mod cover Alberta's side of the Rockies or just British Columbia?
3 years ago
I'm the second here. Why not to make a mesh for the whole Canadian Rockies? Alberta's rednecks are too lazy...
3 years ago
Vitold69
ThanosGaming
Do you plan on doing this for the Sierra Nevada in California?
3 years ago
hunteredh
When we see more, Rocky Mountains, or mid America and south America. Australia will be nice too and Himalaya 😊
3 years ago
CONVEEN
What does this new update 1.2 included?
3 years ago
I made the exclusion zone around Vancouver smaller. I learned how to tell where photogrammetry is in the cities, and realized I made the exclusion zone around Vancouver too big. I didn't want the exclusion zone affecting areas that didn't need to be excluded.
3 years ago
PlaneGuy04
DC6Pilot
Hello PlaneGuy04,
Thanks for your work with British Columbia
Is there any chance that you will do the Quebec/Gaspesia area?
Thanks
3 years ago
Yes, please, I second Quebec! At least Gaspésie, Chic-Choc area.
3 years ago
ECPatterson
OlivierQC
Was waiting eagerly for this. One of my favourite areas. Especially Coastal mountains and Discovery Islands. Flew there this evening. Looked awesome. No fps hit. Thanks!
3 years ago
ECPatterson
Hi I did various tests around BC including Vancouver City all looked great, well done on a great job and many thanks. The Mountains look sensational.
3 years ago
GBOAC
So only Part 1 needs to be replaced for the update today?
3 years ago
Correct, only part 1 needs to be updated!
3 years ago
PlaneGuy04
Dapro