Experience Austria!
This mod contains customized height profiles for Austriad. The mod contains high definition LIDAR DEM data with a mesh resolution of 20m. 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.
In comparison to the 10m DEM for Austria, this 20m mod is friendlier for lower spec PCs and therefore less stutters should occur. If you would like to have the most realistic landscape, you should switch to the 10m version.
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 Austria. 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 are mainly flying airliners in high altitude, there is probably no benefit for you in using this mod.
I tested it and generally speaking it is quite okay, but there might be some incompatibilities with scenery and airport mods. Certain objects might float or some bumps in the ground might occur, depending on the way that specific scenery was created.
Affected Sceneries
Tested several freeware and payware airports, they were mostly fine except of a few floating buildings here and there. Some fixes have been applied.
Please report any bugs or glitches and I will try to fix them.
Credits
The elevation data used was a LIDAR 10m height profile of Austria, compiled by Sonny (https://data.opendataportal.at/dataset/dtm-austria/resource/7fd4a6c3-16b8-4632-9978-10344c404a69)
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!
Installation
Simply unzip the download and copy&paste the contained folders into your "community folder".
Enjoy your VFR flights above Austria!
Troglodytus 
1 months ago
STARBART
Looks absolutely beautiful, thanks
2 years ago
MarinoCodes
Hallo Troglodytus!
Was ist der Vorteil gegenüber dem Austria-update? Ist das DEM noch deutlich genauer? Sind die screenshots (default) schon nach dem Austria-update aufgenommen?
Ps: Ich kann es kaum erwarten deine LOAV und LOAN Szenerie genießen zu dürfen 😉
DEM zwar noch nicht getestet aber trotzdem 5 Sterne weil mmn alle deiner Arbeiten 5 Sterne verdient haben!!!
Herzlichen Dank
2 years ago
Hallo!
Habe es eh ganz kurz bei den Versionshinweisen beschrieben: Das Standard Höhenmodell ist seit World Update 6 sogar besser als meine Mod, es gibt aber ein paar Vorteile der Mod:
Die Mod verursacht weniger "aufpoppen" von Datenpunkten. Vielleicht ist es dir schon aufgefallen, wenn man ganz nahe an Berge ranfliegt, dann tanzen die Felsen fast, weil so viele neue Höhenpunkte geladen werden. Der Effekt ist mit der Mod reduziert. Weiters sehen die Berge mit der Mod auch von weiter weg besser aus als ohne Mod, weil das Standard-Mesh viel früher zu schlechterer Auflösung hin interpoliert.
Dafür hast du mit der Mod halt 3 Gb mehr Daten auf deiner Festplatte..
Fazit: Mod hat Vor- und Nachteile, die man abwägen muss.
2 years ago
Troglodytus
WHYIFLY
Hello
Does this mod completely replace the dm-10-1.1 east and west?
2 years ago
Hi,
You should choose a version you want (10m or 20m) and just use one of both versions. 10m gives more details in the landscap, while 20m is a little easier on the framerate!
2 years ago
Troglodytus
Nounours06
Now i do love this DEM you know that.
Just flown out of LOWL - live weather and time (dusk) and there are floating lights all over the sky.....is it me? Seen this before - but not on such a scale - the whole city at end of the runway o8
3 years ago
i think that is no issue of this mod, but msfs in general. I have seen floating lights all over the earth before.
3 years ago
Troglodytus
sparkymarky
Can you exclude LOIJ, please?
3 years ago
Did you experience any problems?
I've put it on my to do list for the next update!
3 years ago
Troglodytus
Krzysk
Hi. I work in a datacenter. If you need some hundreds of vCPUs or some TBs of RAM for your mesh generation, leave me a message.
3 years ago
:D Thanks, that is very kind of you, however, I think it is just not feasible at the moment. Even if the creators can manage to compile it (thanks to your generous offer), that would result in hundreds of gigabytes of DEM data for the users and many many long stutters, as the RAM gets overloaded.
Thank you though, really appreciate your nice offer !
3 years ago
Troglodytus
DocBamboozle
Today I flew from Innsbruck to Geneva with the Austrian en Swiss 20DEM scenery. Settings Ultra. Clear skies. I am happy and amazing about the quality. My compliments for this effort! No stuttering. Yes you see the built up of the mountains coming closer but that is normal behaviour of MSFS. Your work really makes flying over mounting areas more fun. Thanks!
3 years ago
Thank you very much! I am glad you enjoyed it that much!
3 years ago
Troglodytus
barrie40
Thank you so much my dear friend !!!
3 years ago
You are very welcome, please enjoy :)
3 years ago
Troglodytus
GiuManz
Hello again, reporting back:
yes, my rig is able to handle the DEM20 nearly stutter-free. I had some heavy freezes with the DEM10 recently, but i have to say, i had pretty rough weather conditions via live weather, gusty winds, dense clouds and partially foggy conditions, my windows and my ears were freezing, ... so maybe this had also stressed my rig a bit more than i used to know it. But also in "friendlier" weather conditions the DEM20 is a bit smoother for my framerates.
I am totally in love with the steep and narrow regions of Tyrol, my favorite part of Austria. The DEM10 looks a bit even-more-realistic there, due to the rough mountains. If you compare it to Salzburger Land or Steiermark, which is a "smoother", more "hilly" landscape, Tyrol makes it a bit more visible, when having higher DEMs.
A question, but don´t kill me for it:
I´ve seen, you use a 10DEM and a 20DEM for Switzerland. So there seems to ba a way, to combine different DEM-resolutions for sure.
I´ve seen some images at the website, which offers the sourcedate you are using. Differend heights were colored in differend colors. Like 0-500m in blue, 501-1000m in red, 1001-1500m in green... kind of.
Is it a way, to "cut off" anything from the 10DEM Austria below a specific height, like "under 3.000m" and place it over the 20DEM?
That way, if this works, we could save performance and data overhead in lower regions (which have no higher, edgy mountains) and just use the higher resolution data for the higher parts of mountains, exactly there where you see the biggest difference in the DEM resolution. Mountaintops, "Gebirgsketten", the relief towards the horizon, ...
Like, "cutting off the top layers of a cake and place them on top of a different one.
Could this work? Like filtering anygrid point of the DEM below a certain height, to save lots of work for specifying in detail where exactly the DEM10 should be uled like masking every singkle mountain or so.
3 years ago
Hello,
Actually I have not been using 10m DEM for Switzerland, rather 1m DEM for a single mountain. It is really highly detailed.
I don't think the cut at a certain elevation works at the moment, because of the way the compilation tool handles inputs. I don't think that will happen, altough it is a great idea.
I will have to stick with "area" mode. To specify a certain DEM for a specified area.
It is really hard to get and compile higher resolutions than 20m for most parts though, because of the sheer amount of data needed.
3 years ago
Troglodytus
Scooty
fantastic thankyou. finally good quality DEM in msfs. i used Sonnys DEM in XP and so glad to have it back in the new sim
3 years ago
Its just amazing work Sonny has done. Hopefully people will read my description and actually support him. Maybe the flightsim community will receive even more data by him in the future :)
3 years ago
Troglodytus
ElateBison
Thank you very much for your work, it is impressive. Is there a possibility that you can make Spain? Best regards.
3 years ago
Thank you very much. I probably will not do Spain in the near future, however, I have already done the Pyrenees, both Spain and French parts and that project will be uploaded soon.
3 years ago
Troglodytus
clubvirginia
Perfect, Danke, you are the best
3 years ago
Danke :)
3 years ago
Troglodytus
littlekrg
Excellent, thanks for this! I had performance issues with 10m, frequent pauses of up to several seconds (all settings ultra, terrain LOD 200). Judging by the screenshots 20m will give good enough terrain resolution with hopefully better performance.
3 years ago
Same here. Framerate was great, but i had "reloading stutter" sometimes. The Großglockner sample photo doesnt look worse for me in the 20m DEM version. I think i'll give it a go :)
3 years ago
paulhannover
foxtrotlima
Thanks for these valuable additions! I see no performance impact and the benefits are readily apparent.
3 years ago
2 images are already in the description!
3 years ago
Troglodytus
JstnJ