FSX / P3D scenery

FSX Terrain Editing Tutorial

Terrain editing techniques bring sharper, more realistic landforms to the Canary Islands and nearby northern islets in Microsoft Flight Simulator X using freely available Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation data. The tutorial walks through a streamlined workflow for replacing and refining terrain meshes, helping scenery creators match real-world topography with clean, believable results.

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Welcome to this tutorial about modifying terrain data. This tutorial will show you a short and easy way to modify the terrain to get a more realistic look in Flight Simulator X. The area with this workshop are the Canary Islands in the west of Africa and two small island in the north. The modifications are based on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data products, available for free download. By Gerhard Scheuerecker.

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terredtu.zip

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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D scenery

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Place scenery in Addon Scenery

Create a folder under FSX\Addon Scenery\ containing scenery and texture sub-folders.
Activate in Scenery Library

In FSX, go to Settings → Scenery Library → Add Area. Higher priority means it overrides lower entries for the same location.
Always read the included readme

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What’s inside this archive

The archive terredtu.zip has 17 files and directories contained within it.

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Filename/Directory	File Date	File Size
Terrain_Editing_Tutorial_FSX_w_editor	02.27.09	0 B
Canary_Mesh.bgl	02.26.09	1.35 MB
Easy_Terrain_Editing_Tutorial.txt	02.27.09	1.10 kB
Easy_Terrain_Editing_Tutorial_FSX.pdf	02.27.09	4.55 MB
SRTM_to_BGL_104_FSX	02.27.09	0 B
README.TXT	02.26.09	3.29 kB
resample.exe	12.10.07	502.56 kB
SRTM_1ARCSEC_INTERPOLATE.exe	06.09.03	1.26 MB
SRTM_1ARCSEC_TO_BGL.exe	06.09.03	1.26 MB
SRTM_3ARCSEC_INTERPOLATE.exe	06.09.03	1.26 MB
SRTM_3ARCSEC_TO_BGL.exe	06.09.03	1.26 MB
tmf2bgl.exe	05.03.00	84.00 kB
tmfcompress.exe	05.12.00	84.00 kB
tmfmerge.exe	05.01.00	84.00 kB
tmfviewer.exe	12.10.07	323.56 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B