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Recently I encountered two places with spikes and a lake not level:

This is close to SESA Airport S2° 12.87' W80° 57.17'

This is near SEGU Airport at S2° 12.37" W80° 1.32

and a lake with canyons near SEGU at S2° 12.42" W80° 5.97"


Here´s a little scenery fix made by myself in case someone wants it
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Don´t know, if my data is corrupted or if this mesh is just bad. I disabled other mesh for testing. This is vanilla P3D5.2 HF1

Regards

Dan

Hi
Same here at S2° 12.42" W80° 5.97"
Regards
Michel

I'll look into it and fix it if needed, thanks for letting us know!

Thank you very much Max
Have also a look here:
https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopi ... 2&t=143862
Regards
Michel

Hey, so I don't see these in my development build. I haven't fixed anything here since 5.2 so I don't know what's wrong yet. The terrain spikes like that can be caused by water set to bad elevations, so I don't think it's the terrain mesh.

Max,

For what it it worth, I had "spikes" like that in FSX (also called artifacts). They went away with buffering in FSX.CFG, but the system I had back then was not very powerful.

Jorgen

Hi Max
Have also a look near SEGU at S2° 12.42" W80° 5.97"
Regards
Michel

Max Perry wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 4:39 pm Hey, so I don't see these in my development build. I haven't fixed anything here since 5.2 so I don't know what's wrong yet. The terrain spikes like that can be caused by water set to bad elevations, so I don't think it's the terrain mesh.

I just disabled ORBX mesh in that area, but not their landclass and the spikes and the lake remained unchanged. I thought it must be a mesh spike. Since we are already two having this, it can not be a false value due to a transfer failure.

Fly directly over the top of the spikes, and see if there is a giant hole or a peak of the spike, maybe you will see the tiny water feature that is not set to the correct DEM elevation. Out of curiosity, have you tried 5.3 yet?

Max Perry wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:07 pm Fly directly over the top of the spikes, and see if there is a giant hole or a peak of the spike, maybe you will see the tiny water feature that is not set to the correct DEM elevation. Out of curiosity, have you tried 5.3 yet?

Max -- were there corrections made in 5.3 for scenery? The version history doesn't mention any.

Keep up the good work!

Max Perry wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:07 pm Fly directly over the top of the spikes, and see if there is a giant hole or a peak of the spike, maybe you will see the tiny water feature that is not set to the correct DEM elevation. Out of curiosity, have you tried 5.3 yet?

The spikes are still there with 5.3. There´s no lake on the ground. That´s the one near Salinas SESA.



There´s a hole in the ground in the middle of the spikes, but no water. The area on the ground is small, can´t go completely down with the plane in slew mode.

With my patch it is flat as it should be.

I installed 5.3 today and it feels more fluent than before. However texture loading is still an issue. Black objects when turning around.

There´s one more discovered today



S2° 8.53' W80° 46.07'

I´ll update my patch.