*This is a semi long post, sorry lol) I cannot tell you HOW incredibly helpful this tutorial has been. It's 3 am and i have been searching for a good tutorial like this for about 2 hours. I finally made ortho for my hometowns airport (CYYC) and i never knew where to add this (as in set up a directory for it to go in) and then i found it. Also the different zoom levels and in the end all the different tiles was so helpful. I've heard about ortho when i started playing XP but was told it takes forever, too complicated, too big etc and always put it off because of that. But recently ive been wanting to fly around and i wanted good scenery but couldn't find any for canada, but I figured might as well try ortho4xp.. whats the worse that can happen. But i'm glad i did, by far the MOST helpful tutorial out there, period. Thank you so much man all the best! Cheers (EDIT) I made a mistake with my hometown and the overlays did not download because when i clicked on the tile i made it didnt show red. it showed dark green and so i just gave up and i still have the ortho, just no overlays. The next city i wont do that mistake!
I am glad that I could help! I appreciate your comment, and it was not semi long at all. Comments like yours are what makes videos like this worth the time and effort to make - the fact that it allowed you to enjoy and improve your flight sim experience is fantastic. I hope you continue to enjoy it for a long time!
Thank you so much! I have watched several tutorials about installing ortho; i never got mine to work with any! But i now have the whole west coast of Turkey because of this amazing video! Thank you!
9:25 Something to note is that you have to select X-Plane 11/Global Scenery/X-Plane 11 Demo Areas for the areas of Seattle, Honolulu and Juneau, I was trying to follow this guide and couldn't make an overlay because of it. Otherwise great video!
This is brilliant, thank you. I have been struggling to figure out custom zoom levels. Your idea of renaming the overlay folder is great too! I am making tiles for XP12 and I think the mesh source is interesting. Initially, I downloaded the HD Mesh commonly used for this and set it as the custom_overlay_src but I couldn't see much difference - perhaps I did it wrong. Then I tried using the XP mesh "...X-Plane 12/Global Scenery/X-Plane 12 Global Scenery" which worked fine and obvs saves the time and disk space used downloading an HD mesh. Finally, I tried leaving that field blank and although an error is shown, the tiles were made and (presumably) wrapped over the default mesh so it still works.
You are very welome. I take it this works just the same with X-Plane 12 then? If so, I shall have to adjust the title! The HD Mesh does work, but it depends where in the world you are looking. In the UK for example the changes were quite minimal!
@@ECGadget Yes, it's the same in 12. In fact, Orbx scenery for 11 can be copied over into 12 and looks the same, though I think night lighting might be slightly off. I have also learned in the O4XP settings you can set it to automatically increase zl within a given radius of airports, which is very handy. Also, you can draw a polygon to set custom zl - much easier than placing squares!
You can change: Max_convert_slots to how many cores there is in your CPU. Fx if you have 6 cores in your CPU you can change the value to 6 for faster converts! Btw great video!
@@ECGadget After I got the Ortho tiles, did everything step by step. My whole game No matter wich airport i choose, Everything is just White cant see anything
That sounds like the scenery has failed to work properly. First off, I would delete the tiles and the config lines. Then try it again to see if the same result occurs. The X-Plane forums with the Ortho4XP thread is your place to go for help on that!
@@ECGadget UR NOT EXPLAINING IT. That is why they asked what is the point of copying all the earth nav terrain and textures into another folder? Ur just copying it. So do u just copy the data files etc that not in the folder and what do u call the folder and how do u relate it to the folder that was created?
@@ECGadget Hello, I from China, and I think your video can help more people, Could I put your video on a Chinese video website? I will try to translate it into Chinese, Should I do that? Thank you :)
@@ECGadget Thank you！Because the Chinese government banned Google, So Chinese people can't watch videos on RUclips......That's why I want to put your video on the Chinese website. And I hope you can stay safe, too!
ERROR: file D:/X-plane/X-Plane 11/Global Scenery\Earth nav data\+30-120\+34-119.dsf absent. Recall that the overlay source directory needs to be set in the config window first.
Very nice tuition, thanks you worke hard, however I am confused, Oscar Pilote did emphasise there would be no overlays folder in his binary download or even in ortho4XP V130. so I am amazed to see that you actuall got a folder in the route directory of ortho4XP. well done Charles UK.
Thank you very much. It was interesting that I found it quite simple to do this; a lot of people have said it is far more difficult. Perhaps I just lucked out!
This will probably never be replied to based on how old this is, but here goes nothing. I am following this to THE LETTER, exactly as directed, and am now at the same point in the video at 27:17 and i get a seemingly infinite - -> Making a copy of the original overlay DSF in tmp dir -> The original DSF is a 7z archive, uncompressing... And it never uncompresses whatever that is. Can't move forward due to this. Pleeeeeease help. I have had nothing but problems with this since 4 days ago when i started trying. This is the last chance i got. Then im uninstalling and going back to DCS for good. Please help!!!
That may possibly be a scenery.ini order problem, so just double check the order those are in and hopefully they match mine. Aside from that, you could possibly try using the HDMesh addon (video on the channel) and that may help. Otherwise, I am not sure what could possibly cause that I am afraid!
The HD Mesh folder is a different add-on that I have a video for it. But you do not need that. Sometimes the meshes for Ortho will not have loaded into the ini file, so you have to write it in manually.
At 20:55 the base folder path is using backslashes. At 21:00 the base folder path changes to forward slashes. The backslashes did not work for me (the zOrtho... directory was never created). The log file shows a mix of forward and back slashes when writing the files. Very odd...
27:10 - on the batch build here I'm getting this error even though I've done all the steps right. Why does it say that this file is missing? *ERROR: file Earth nav data\+40-120\+49-120.dsf absent. Recall that the overlay source directory needs to be set in the config window first.*
I need a little help with the scenery. I've got some custom scenery for my area, when I do the ortho's the custom scenery(airport terminals/building, skyscrapers) just disappear and my custom scenery for the area is gone. How can I prevent this so that both orthos and custom scenery are together?
I am not 100% sure, but it should be all down to the scenery ini file that I show in the video. If you place the custom scenery much higher on the list it should in theory override the Ortho scenery that causes it to disappear
Very useful thank you! Quick question, on the "home page" on the top bar, the "ZoomLevel: 16 box", does this affect the quality of the ortho tiles you create? Not sure exactly what this does, thanks!
I believe (it has been a while since I have used Ortho) that that is the preview that you see on the map. It should not affect the quality of the ortho tiles!
Great tutorial, Im only ok on a puter there was one point when you said just create folder like that ......just after creating your finished ortho folder...but a little to quick for me I didnt see you ceate a folder if youre still veiwing this can you clarify for me please
I have downloaded Ortho4XP file, from this Oscar profile, but there were no folder named Photoscenery_Autogen. Is it Necessary? If yes, where i can find it?
Great video my man! I’ve followed it without fault. The only thing I seek clarification on is at ‘24:13’ you move a folder into the X Plane 11 folder called “Photoscenery Autogen”. Where can one attain this download?
You will have to use that and follow the instructions on that page. If you look further down that page there is an option B - that is the one that no longer works sadly!
For where it says approx add size, does that mean the amount of hard drive space it is going to take up. Do u need internet to batch the files and how long will that take?should I do so zl 19 around the airport zl 18 a bit further out zl 17 even further and the rest so 16
Yes, it is storage space. Depending on your internet connection it can take quite a while. I highly recommend what you suggested. ZL19 just around the airport, then 18 and so on.
Not exactly sure but you can take a look at the X Plane forums for help there. I know there is a way to do it, but I am not sure which options need to be changed
@@ECGadget thanks, seems some people just don’t read everything. 😜 great tutorial all the same , have done a few areas without the photoscenery changes and the Ortho on its own looks great, thanks for replying to my useless request..
No problems! I have learnt that a lot of people do not read the descriptions. Bit of a shame, you never know what gems you find in there! Glad it helped and you are enjoying the ortho, and you are very welcome!
I went through a few tutorials and I always have the same problem. All buildings and other structures are flat, only 2D. An idea about why or what I could be doing wrong?
As Rom said, check your number of world objects. I also recommend checking the order in the scenery.ini file, that is often a cause of many errors. Lastly, if worse comes to worst, you can recreate the tile and see what happens.
I only have like 12 files and folders in my ortho for XP folder and when you open yours you have a lot and when I opened binary I don't even have an ortho4xp.exe can you help me clarify what's going on here thank you woody wow i found it
My default scenery gets vanised whilest doing this. i do exact same thing, with overlays above global airports etc. I have no city nothing, just a big freaking picture
Step 4 : Extracting overlay for tile +41+028 : -------- ERROR: file C:/Users/omer/Desktop/X-Plane 11/Global Scenery/X-Plane 11 Global Scenery\Earth nav data\+40+020\+41+028.dsf absent. Recall that the overlay source directory needs to be set in the config window first.
Not sure what the issue is there, but it looks like you have a mixure of forward and back slashes. That could be a problem, so double check how you have got the directory set.
@@ECGadget thanks, I have since given up on X-Plane, as improving terrain to photoreal etc just don't work thru ortho4xp on Mac Air M1 Have followed every instruction available on forum s etc.. ortho just won't work on Mac, thanks for your help.
Great Video Ec Gadget :) , But When completing all your steps and when reached to the .ini file its didnt show what you had in your .ini file note ofcourse because it is the first time i install Ortho4xp , when i installed the airport and loaded it , it didnt show the images as it its suppose to be , any advices . Many Thanks
I think you need to check the ini file and try to get the same sorts of entries I did, in the order I have them. They would probably show it correctly!
@@ECGadget Many Thanks for your answer , the problem is that i get mixed up with different kind of sceneries , anyway things are alright now , keep on the great videos Cap. And well done in advance !!
One excellent job, much thanks great technical work and very well explained. Was this the mod you used and does it just require a download, drag and drop into XP11?
I appreciate the kind words - I used the mod exactly as described, just with a download and extraction. Did not even need to drop into XP11 to run the program, as long as you selected the right folders as shown in the video. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the video, but Ortho is still really complicated. Why couldn't this come in a prepackaged product you can buy? This makes me really look forward to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, where you get the whole planet's scenery included. XPlane should have Ortho in DLCs you can buy and just install ready to use. Austin Meyer dropped the ball on this aspect. Laminar should've built XPlane with Ortho already installed.
There are products that you can buy that do this and more. Orbx TrueEarth is a prime example of this, but that is quite expensive. You could not build X-Plane with ortho already installed, for one, the technology did not exist then, and even now, Microsoft can do this due to their Bing maps and Azure platform, meaning they can stream in the scenery instead of loading it to a store on a drive - that will save on storage space. To give an example, my X-Plane TrueEarth installed for JUST Great Britain, I am looking at over 380gb in storage space. The world would easily be a couple of dozen terabytes.
Follow the link in the description box to the new one, and then follow the instructions on that page - it should do the same thing. Bit of a longer process sadly, but it should work!
@ECGadget maybe I missed something. Followed your tutorial and it works great. I have no airport. Do you have a video on how to install all the necessary airport files. If not, could you do one on that subject?
Oh dear. I am not sure how your airport could have disappeared. The only thing I can think of is to take a look at the ini file I showed with regards to scenery and see if you have a similar order to mine? That is not something I have ever heard happen before
Hi mate, I have the entire European continent installed in Ortho4xp:)...Had to buy a separate SSD and link it to Xplane 11 which is on a separate SSD. Absolutely love ortho, can't do without it now. Could you send me a link to the Mr X mod please as I don't have that. Cheers great video from you as always.
Mister X mod is on the video showing it off, you'll find it in the playlist. There are a couple of mods, so check that out! I need a new HDD for this actually if I am going to go all out in XP11...
Which link are you after? If you have the program (Get it from the developers post signature - you may have to sign up: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/profile/461408-oscar-pilote/), everything should work as normal
Download 7zip in windows 32 or 64 bit whatever your platform is. You need the 7zip software to extract that text file. Once downloaded, go to the text file, right click and you will see the 7zip option. Use the 7zip to extract it and then you will see the ortho4xp folder (no longer a text file). I had the same problem.
Not very good its does not work. the program does not create overlay folder and the explanation was terrible. Effectively your asking us to make a copy of the folder and call it what ? Or is just the files in the folder below earth nav data, terrain, textures etc that need to be copied? Very confusing
Thank you, I am glad it worked! If you press 'C' for freecam, you can then move around with the arrow keys, as well as < and >, and the mouse to pan around. Hope that helps!
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*This is a semi long post, sorry lol) I cannot tell you HOW incredibly helpful this tutorial has been. It's 3 am and i have been searching for a good tutorial like this for about 2 hours. I finally made ortho for my hometowns airport (CYYC) and i never knew where to add this (as in set up a directory for it to go in) and then i found it. Also the different zoom levels and in the end all the different tiles was so helpful. I've heard about ortho when i started playing XP but was told it takes forever, too complicated, too big etc and always put it off because of that. But recently ive been wanting to fly around and i wanted good scenery but couldn't find any for canada, but I figured might as well try ortho4xp.. whats the worse that can happen. But i'm glad i did, by far the MOST helpful tutorial out there, period. Thank you so much man all the best! Cheers (EDIT) I made a mistake with my hometown and the overlays did not download because when i clicked on the tile i made it didnt show red. it showed dark green and so i just gave up and i still have the ortho, just no overlays. The next city i wont do that mistake!
I am glad that I could help! I appreciate your comment, and it was not semi long at all. Comments like yours are what makes videos like this worth the time and effort to make - the fact that it allowed you to enjoy and improve your flight sim experience is fantastic. I hope you continue to enjoy it for a long time!
@@ECGadget Thanks man! I love all your videos, theyre super helpful and the most informative ive ever found. Keep it up!
Thank you so much! I have watched several tutorials about installing ortho; i never got mine to work with any! But i now have the whole west coast of Turkey because of this amazing video! Thank you!
You are very welcome - I am glad that such an old video is still proving to be useful. Enjoy Turkey!
hello kai
Thank u so much very helpful I followed every step and my xplane looks fantastic
I am glad I could help!
Infinitely useful video. Definitely the best tutorial on orthoxp
Thank you, I am glad it helped!
9:25 Something to note is that you have to select X-Plane 11/Global Scenery/X-Plane 11 Demo Areas for the areas of Seattle, Honolulu and Juneau, I was trying to follow this guide and couldn't make an overlay because of it. Otherwise great video!
Thank you for that - I actually did not know about that bit at the time!
This is brilliant, thank you. I have been struggling to figure out custom zoom levels. Your idea of renaming the overlay folder is great too! I am making tiles for XP12 and I think the mesh source is interesting. Initially, I downloaded the HD Mesh commonly used for this and set it as the custom_overlay_src but I couldn't see much difference - perhaps I did it wrong. Then I tried using the XP mesh "...X-Plane 12/Global Scenery/X-Plane 12 Global Scenery" which worked fine and obvs saves the time and disk space used downloading an HD mesh. Finally, I tried leaving that field blank and although an error is shown, the tiles were made and (presumably) wrapped over the default mesh so it still works.
You are very welome. I take it this works just the same with X-Plane 12 then? If so, I shall have to adjust the title! The HD Mesh does work, but it depends where in the world you are looking. In the UK for example the changes were quite minimal!
@@ECGadget Yes, it's the same in 12. In fact, Orbx scenery for 11 can be copied over into 12 and looks the same, though I think night lighting might be slightly off.
I have also learned in the O4XP settings you can set it to automatically increase zl within a given radius of airports, which is very handy. Also, you can draw a polygon to set custom zl - much easier than placing squares!
Thank you very much for confirming that! Did not even know about the polygon!
You can change: Max_convert_slots to how many cores there is in your CPU. Fx if you have 6 cores in your CPU you can change the value to 6 for faster converts! Btw great video!
Sadly I have a mere four cores! Quite behind the times! But a great tip there, and I am glad you enjoyed the video!
@@ECGadget After I got the Ortho tiles, did everything step by step. My whole game No matter wich airport i choose, Everything is just White cant see anything
That sounds like the scenery has failed to work properly. First off, I would delete the tiles and the config lines. Then try it again to see if the same result occurs. The X-Plane forums with the Ortho4XP thread is your place to go for help on that!
@@ECGadget Imma reinstall!
@@ECGadget It was everything wich was white
cant find the scenery autogen on xplane forum its missing and xplane now keeps crasshing
Lol 🤣 oh my I laughed hard after seeing this :) I think those weird areas looks like the key to a hidden treasure island ;) thank you anyway s!
Thank you Sir ! Amazing tutorial :)
You are very welcome - I am glad it helped!
Very useful video thanks
You are welcome!
I don't get the overlays folder at 27:30 pls help
me too.
I am not sure what could have caused the issue, but you could manually make the folder - it should work the same
@@ECGadget UR NOT EXPLAINING IT. That is why they asked what is the point of copying all the earth nav terrain and textures into another folder? Ur just copying it. So do u just copy the data files etc that not in the folder and what do u call the folder and how do u relate it to the folder that was created?
oh! you did a great job! Thank you for your share! I leaned a lot from your video!
You are very welcome, I am glad that it helped you
@@ECGadget Hello, I from China, and I think your video can help more people, Could I put your video on a Chinese video website? I will try to translate it into Chinese, Should I do that? Thank you :)
I am afraid I would prefer to keep the videos in one place here. Any particular reason why? Also, I hope you have stayed safe!
@@ECGadget Thank you！Because the Chinese government banned Google, So Chinese people can't watch videos on RUclips......That's why I want to put your video on the Chinese website. And I hope you can stay safe, too!
ERROR: file D:/X-plane/X-Plane 11/Global Scenery\Earth nav data\+30-120\+34-119.dsf absent. Recall that the overlay source directory needs to be set in the config window first.
Ortho4XP is a horrible half-baked unfinished bit of code, so tutorials like this are helpful in overcoming the clunky and old-fashioned experience
Thank you very much - I hope the tutorial is still relevant as some people have been having issues lately!
Very nice tuition, thanks you worke hard, however I am confused, Oscar Pilote did emphasise there would be no overlays folder in his binary download or even in ortho4XP V130. so I am amazed to see that you actuall got a folder in the route directory of ortho4XP. well done Charles UK.
Thank you very much. It was interesting that I found it quite simple to do this; a lot of people have said it is far more difficult. Perhaps I just lucked out!
This will probably never be replied to based on how old this is, but here goes nothing. I am following this to THE LETTER, exactly as directed, and am now at the same point in the video at 27:17 and i get a seemingly infinite - -> Making a copy of the original overlay DSF in tmp dir
-> The original DSF is a 7z archive, uncompressing...
And it never uncompresses whatever that is. Can't move forward due to this. Pleeeeeease help. I have had nothing but problems with this since 4 days ago when i started trying. This is the last chance i got. Then im uninstalling and going back to DCS for good. Please help!!!
So, you show a folder " Photoscenery_Autogen_1.2_Library_XP11 ". ?? Where did that come from?
Read the description
So I managed to get Ortho running in X Plane 11 but there are trees everywhere! On roads, buildings sometimes in lakes hahaa any advice?
That may possibly be a scenery.ini order problem, so just double check the order those are in and hopefully they match mine. Aside from that, you could possibly try using the HDMesh addon (video on the channel) and that may help. Otherwise, I am not sure what could possibly cause that I am afraid!
I loved the video, but I couldn't get it working for me. The mesh folder you mention at 29:10. Should it show up automatically?
The HD Mesh folder is a different add-on that I have a video for it. But you do not need that. Sometimes the meshes for Ortho will not have loaded into the ini file, so you have to write it in manually.
The Scenery Auto gen file wont work? Where can I download it?
Superb video - thanks
You are very welcome!
Hi,I get a error ,,Nvcompress" failed to open application correctly 0x000007b could you please advise on what to do
At 20:55 the base folder path is using backslashes. At 21:00 the base folder path changes to forward slashes.
The backslashes did not work for me (the zOrtho... directory was never created). The log file shows a mix of forward and back slashes when writing the files. Very odd...
I re downloaded a certain tile to higher res, do i delete the original file and just replace or do i keep both files?
I need help because the overlay folder isn't showing up
How do you enter that complete free-look "preview" mode you're using? So I can look at the scenery easily. Thank you.
Just press C! Arrow keys, full stop and comma and the shift and control keys then give you all you need to move around
@@ECGadget AWESOME! Thanks bud. :-)
@@ECGadget What is the keystroke "C!"
27:10 - on the batch build here I'm getting this error even though I've done all the steps right. Why does it say that this file is missing?
*ERROR: file Earth nav data\+40-120\+49-120.dsf absent. Recall that the overlay source directory needs to be set in the config window first.*
I am not sure. You should ask on the xplane.org forums, where people who have had this error before may be able to sort it out.
I’ve got the same issue did anyone manage to fix it?
When I put my ortho4xp on airport it broke airport....
make sure your ortho is below all your airports in the scenery cnfig file
I need a little help with the scenery. I've got some custom scenery for my area, when I do the ortho's the custom scenery(airport terminals/building, skyscrapers) just disappear and my custom scenery for the area is gone. How can I prevent this so that both orthos and custom scenery are together?
I am not 100% sure, but it should be all down to the scenery ini file that I show in the video. If you place the custom scenery much higher on the list it should in theory override the Ortho scenery that causes it to disappear
Hi can you help me about the Extract overlays because it's don't work in my x plane can you help me please?
Very useful thank you! Quick question, on the "home page" on the top bar, the "ZoomLevel: 16 box", does this affect the quality of the ortho tiles you create? Not sure exactly what this does, thanks!
I believe (it has been a while since I have used Ortho) that that is the preview that you see on the map. It should not affect the quality of the ortho tiles!
Just downloaded the latest version.My previews remain blank. WTF is the issue with this software.🤔
What happened to the link for Photoscenery Autogen? I can't find the down load referred to in the video.
I have no idea, but I believe it was taken down; alternative instructions are provided in the description!
Great tutorial, Im only ok on a puter there was one point when you said
just create folder like that ......just after creating your finished
ortho folder...but a little to quick for me I didnt see you ceate a
folder if youre still veiwing this can you clarify for me please
I have downloaded Ortho4XP file, from this Oscar profile, but there were no folder named Photoscenery_Autogen. Is it Necessary? If yes, where i can find it?
You may be able to get away with not using it - sadly the files are no longer available!
I have added a different link. It may work!
i followed the entire tutorial yet i get no overlays folders
Great video my man! I’ve followed it without fault. The only thing I seek clarification on is at ‘24:13’ you move a folder into the X Plane 11 folder called “Photoscenery Autogen”. Where can one attain this download?
Please check the updated instructions in the description - that may help with that part, as the file was sadly removed.
So... since Photoscenery sutogen is removed is there an alternative to use? Or should this just be ignored?
nvm I'm an idiot and didn't read the whole description
Not to worry, most people do not tend to read the description sadly! Glad you found it though!
When I search for "Photoscenery Autogen" I only find "Road and Autogen Textures for_Photoscenery 1.0.2" is this the same but maybe newer library?
You will have to use that and follow the instructions on that page. If you look further down that page there is an option B - that is the one that no longer works sadly!
Cant run, there is no Binary Folder in the download....
During the conversion process I kept getting warning could not convert
what if you dont do any of the extra zoom level stuff and just leave the zoom level in all entirety to 16?
Then the closer you get to the ground, the worse it will look in detail, but the less size it will take.
For where it says approx add size, does that mean the amount of hard drive space it is going to take up. Do u need internet to batch the files and how long will that take?should I do so zl 19 around the airport zl 18 a bit further out zl 17 even further and the rest so 16
Yes, it is storage space. Depending on your internet connection it can take quite a while. I highly recommend what you suggested. ZL19 just around the airport, then 18 and so on.
Thanks,love the vids Btw!!!
You are welcome, and thank you! I hope you continue to enjoy plenty of videos on the channel!
Hi when i succesfully rendered to ortho, the airport tarmacs became flat. How do i fix this?
Not exactly sure but you can take a look at the X Plane forums for help there. I know there is a way to do it, but I am not sure which options need to be changed
Just a quick question if I have my overlays in just one folder it is a problem?
I believe each overlay will be in it's each folder because it corresponds to a tile. Putting them together may cause problems!
@@ECGadget Ty for the quick reply i will start putting them like u showed in the video
yOU CAN PUT ALL YOUR OVERLAYS IN ONE FOLDER WITH NO PROBLEMS
From where did you get the stunning airport?
Any Idea where I can get the Photoscenery file from please..
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@@ECGadget thanks, seems some people just don’t read everything. 😜 great tutorial all the same , have done a few areas without the photoscenery changes and the Ortho on its own looks great, thanks for replying to my useless request..
No problems! I have learnt that a lot of people do not read the descriptions. Bit of a shame, you never know what gems you find in there!
Glad it helped and you are enjoying the ortho, and you are very welcome!
I went through a few tutorials and I always have the same problem. All buildings and other structures are flat, only 2D. An idea about why or what I could be doing wrong?
Hey
Did you verify if your setting in xp11 is like that "Number of world objects" to high or maximum I had this problem before
As Rom said, check your number of world objects. I also recommend checking the order in the scenery.ini file, that is often a cause of many errors. Lastly, if worse comes to worst, you can recreate the tile and see what happens.
You got it!! "Number of world objects" was too low. I wasn't looking at the right place for my problem. Thanks a lot!
@@bernfay I had the same problem than you and I try to found during 4 weeks
I only have like 12 files and folders in my ortho for XP folder and when you open yours you have a lot and when I opened binary I don't even have an ortho4xp.exe can you help me clarify what's going on here thank you woody wow i found it
My default scenery gets vanised whilest doing this. i do exact same thing, with overlays above global airports etc. I have no city nothing, just a big freaking picture
The overlays need to be below it - if you have a look at the order in the file I show, the overlays are at the bottom, only above meshes if available
Umm it does not work I did everything fine in the scenery_pack.ini file but it’s flat
Try a reinstall - may be the best option
I tried different settings and the 3D buildings are there now
Perfect! Enjoy your new scenery!
Thanks!
Step 4 : Extracting overlay for tile +41+028 :
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ERROR: file C:/Users/omer/Desktop/X-Plane 11/Global Scenery/X-Plane 11 Global Scenery\Earth nav data\+40+020\+41+028.dsf absent. Recall that the overlay source directory needs to be set in the config window first.
Not sure what the issue is there, but it looks like you have a mixure of forward and back slashes. That could be a problem, so double check how you have got the directory set.
Is there a version of Ortho4xp 1.3.0 for Mac users.
Not that I know of I am afraid
@@ECGadget thanks, I have since given up on X-Plane, as improving terrain to photoreal etc just don't work thru ortho4xp on Mac Air M1
Have followed every instruction available on forum s etc.. ortho just won't work on Mac, thanks for your help.
Hey I have an overlay but not everywhere on the tile ! Do you know why? Thanks a lot
I am afraid I am not sure... the only thing I can think of is an odd setting when you were making the Ortho files!
Ok thanks to answer! Is it possible a problem of LOD? I think no but Idk
It could be, the way to check that is to fly close to the ground as you move around and see if it loads properly
@@ECGadget No still doesn t work 😭
Btw ... Overlays needs to go ABOVE global airports !
Good but where to find the photoscenery autogen? I didn't find anything. I'm stuck
Sadly not available anymore. I shall see if I can find an alternative link!
@@ECGadget Thank you :/
I have added a different link. It may work, with a little fiddling!
@@ECGadget Thank you Bro !!! And you know a method to transform 2D texture of Ortho4XP houses to 3D ou generate 3D houses?
Great Video Ec Gadget :) , But When completing all your steps and when reached to the .ini file its didnt show what you had in your .ini file note ofcourse because it is the first time i install Ortho4xp , when i installed the airport and loaded it , it didnt show the images as it its suppose to be , any advices . Many Thanks
I think you need to check the ini file and try to get the same sorts of entries I did, in the order I have them. They would probably show it correctly!
@@ECGadget Many Thanks for your answer , the problem is that i get mixed up with different kind of sceneries , anyway things are alright now , keep on the great videos Cap. And well done in advance !!
One excellent job, much thanks great technical work and very well explained. Was this the mod you used and does it just require a download, drag and drop into XP11?
I appreciate the kind words - I used the mod exactly as described, just with a download and extraction. Did not even need to drop into XP11 to run the program, as long as you selected the right folders as shown in the video. Hope that helps!
What did I screw up? Everything is a 2D picture?
Most likely the order of the files in the config is wrong
Great tutorial but where can we find the Photoscenery Autogen folder? I can't find it when I do a search at the org or Google.
Sadly it seems like that link is no longer available or being updated. Try without and see what happens. It should still be more or less okay!
I have added a different link. It may work!
Thanks. I found it on a back up drive I had!
Steve Sanacore can you post the page to find it
@@AGOSAR666 I had it on an external hard drive. I didn't find it online. Sorry.
Thanks for the video, but Ortho is still really complicated. Why couldn't this come in a prepackaged product you can buy? This makes me really look forward to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, where you get the whole planet's scenery included. XPlane should have Ortho in DLCs you can buy and just install ready to use. Austin Meyer dropped the ball on this aspect. Laminar should've built XPlane with Ortho already installed.
There are products that you can buy that do this and more. Orbx TrueEarth is a prime example of this, but that is quite expensive. You could not build X-Plane with ortho already installed, for one, the technology did not exist then, and even now, Microsoft can do this due to their Bing maps and Azure platform, meaning they can stream in the scenery instead of loading it to a store on a drive - that will save on storage space. To give an example, my X-Plane TrueEarth installed for JUST Great Britain, I am looking at over 380gb in storage space. The world would easily be a couple of dozen terabytes.
Hi, thanks for the great info, where can I download photoscenery autogen. Thanks
Follow the link in the description box to the new one, and then follow the instructions on that page - it should do the same thing. Bit of a longer process sadly, but it should work!
@ECGadget maybe I missed something. Followed your tutorial and it works great. I have no airport. Do you have a video on how to install all the necessary airport files. If not, could you do one on that subject?
Oh dear. I am not sure how your airport could have disappeared. The only thing I can think of is to take a look at the ini file I showed with regards to scenery and see if you have a similar order to mine? That is not something I have ever heard happen before
@@ECGadget Thanks, fixed it with the .ini file. So much appreciate your tutorial.
Brilliant! And you are very welcome; I am glad it helped you!
Tnx for bringing this great Vid. Now, this all process is time consuming and kind of tedious, why not use the "high_zl_airport" ???
You can but sometimes you will find that it does not quite do what you want - I always find it better to choose manually!
Is there a way I can add buildings?
The buildings should autogenerate
@@ECGadget Is that by downloading Photoscenery autogen? If so where can I find the download link? Many thanks to your tutorial it really helped
May have to follow the new link I have placed - and then use that method. I will be looking for an alternative to it if I can!
@@ECGadget Ahh right, thank you so much for your help! My scenery now looks fantastic
You are very welcome!
Does this work for Mac?
It should do so, yes
Hi mate, I have the entire European continent installed in Ortho4xp:)...Had to buy a separate SSD and link it to Xplane 11 which is on a separate SSD.
Absolutely love ortho, can't do without it now.
Could you send me a link to the Mr X mod please as I don't have that.
Cheers great video from you as always.
Mister X mod is on the video showing it off, you'll find it in the playlist. There are a couple of mods, so check that out!
I need a new HDD for this actually if I am going to go all out in XP11...
@@ECGadget I'd suggest you do. Once you start with ortho, you cant fly without it. I almost have the whole of Europe now on a 8TB Hd
I do not even have an 8TB HDD... I guess I am spending on components!
Great review easy to follow but I can't find phot scenery autogen link/Download please can you re post a link 👍👍👍👍
Which link are you after? If you have the program (Get it from the developers post signature - you may have to sign up: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/profile/461408-oscar-pilote/), everything should work as normal
@@ECGadget Second link does not work. The Photoscenery Autogen Library
Oh right! I forgot about that link... not sure where that has gone. I took a look for a while and could not find a replacement!
I have added a different link. It may work with some fiddling and produce a similar result!
Great thanks love the tutorials aswell 👍
am I missing something? When I download the windows binary thing. it only shows up as a text document. plz help.
Download 7zip in windows 32 or 64 bit whatever your platform is. You need the 7zip software to extract that text file. Once downloaded, go to the text file, right click and you will see the 7zip option. Use the 7zip to extract it and then you will see the ortho4xp folder (no longer a text file). I had the same problem.
@@justinquitadamo Thank you! It's working now.
Beaten to it!
what about the airport, everything gone
Not very good its does not work. the program does not create overlay folder and the explanation was terrible. Effectively your asking us to make a copy of the folder and call it what ? Or is just the files in the folder below earth nav data, terrain, textures etc that need to be copied? Very confusing
super job! in case zou wish to edit the area again to improve ZLs, can you just do the process again and overwrite?
Correct, that is all you need to do. Glad this helped!
Good work. It have followed this closely and it works fine. How can I check the finished image in Xplane as you did, without doing a flight?
Thank you, I am glad it worked!
If you press 'C' for freecam, you can then move around with the arrow keys, as well as < and >, and the mouse to pan around. Hope that helps!
you should worry about setting .
Very Confusing!!!
Or suppose I wanna get Ortho for the whole world
I'll just wait for Orbx Global for xplane 11. I love this tool but knowing me I'll rack up 500GB of scenery in no time!
Well, if ORBX keep up TrueEarth, you'll go far further than that. My UK install is 270gb or so!
@@ECGadget oh my Gosh! I have a 1TB M.2 for Xplane but I want other games to enjoy it too lol
Cause I fly in us mostly
I find there is Alot of programming
There is NO programming at all !
3d dosent work
Try ensuring that the folders are in the correct order and written correctly in the scenery order file. That often fixes it!
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The google drive link doesn't work as I can't get it to download...any tips?
Help its not working for me
but how do i cover the whole world
The exact same method, across the world. And a LOT of storage space
ECGadget but that would take ages
That is how it has to happen I am afraid
@@ECGadget the ortho4xp overwrote all my airport textures so london heathow is empty
@@ECGadget How do you move up text slots in sceneypacksini