AutoOrtho 0.7.2+ Install Tutorial | Drishal MAC2

[@MiroslawSawenko]

08:31 So, if I have SimHeaven installed, then I do not need this whole folder "yAutoOrtho_Overlays"? Right? Thank U much!

[@DrishalMAC2]

Correct :) if you have simheaven you do not need the yAutoOrtho_Overlays folder :)

[@nicholaiivanitsky9661]

I failed to get O.K. Something is missing, a chunk it says. Though the program is running. Also, there is no /z_ao... line in the .ini file. None of them.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Could you contact me on discord? I can provide much better support there. I think I may know what the issue it :)

[@nicholaiivanitsky9661]

@@DrishalMAC2 Thank you, I will.

[@antoniomaruge8218]

To this day I haven’t been able to install this 😅it’s a good thing I don’t mind the default scenery

[@DrishalMAC2]

What's the error?

[@charlesberry9944]

Thanks for the video. AO 7.1 has been working great for me... so nervous about upgrading. Does 7.2 install easily right on top of 7.1 or are there a lot of manual steps? Thanks for any advice or experience.

[@DrishalMAC2]

To upgrade to 0.7.2 just run the new autoortho .exe installer. You shouldn't have to do anything else as it will remember all the settings and your base packages :)

[@charlesberry9944]

@@DrishalMAC2 thx... ran the installer exe and 'it just worked' nothing else to do ... had a great hop from PHLI to PHNL to test it out!

[@DrishalMAC2]

Fantastic! Enjoy mate!

[@mrcrabswalking]

XP11 Here but I figure it's the same. My US Scenery works like a charm, no lags, stutters, or anything like that. When I installed the EU scenery it does not show up in the sim. I have the scenery packs configured properly, however, there are only 15 files that get installed from the EU pack. You said there was something around 30, which im not sure why mine says done at only 15 zip files.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Eur has only 15 files. When you start autoortho and go to the log page does it show that the eur pack has correctly bene mounted. And does the ortho not show around the whole of Europe or only one section?

[@mrcrabswalking]

@@DrishalMAC2 Entire EU. I tried multiple spots like Dublin, London, and Vienna. Only default X-Plane scenery showed up. I can double check what my LOG looks like, but from what I saw there were no errors.

[@mrcrabswalking]

@@DrishalMAC2 Double checked the Log. Literally everything is working, I have no idea why AO does work in the EU. Even the AutoOrtho overlays worked, the actual map imagery did not. So frustrating.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Any chance you can join my discord and dm me? I can provide better support there :)

[@mrcrabswalking]

@@DrishalMAC2 of course. I’d love to get this resolved.

[@mr.noobser5692]

Every time I ran AO it deleted and replaced the ortho folder and moved it to the top of my scenery.ini, I couldn't get it to load without removing all 3d objects in-sim. I found the solution is waiting to run AO until you are in the XP12 start menu and then closing AO before closing the sim.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Right I see, and that method works fine?

[@mr.noobser5692]

@@DrishalMAC2 Works fine for me!

[@DrishalMAC2]

Fantastic!

[@custom.0860]

Thanks for another detailed tutorial. Which Ortho do you prefer AutoOrtho or XPlaneMap Enhancement?

[@DrishalMAC2]

I prefere AutoOrtho as I get much better quality and performance. It works very very well for me :)

[@custom.0860]

@@DrishalMAC2 Thanks for your suggestions. I'll go back to AutoOrtho as I have had a few issues with Map Enhancement. Should I uninstall it or just leave both installed but just obviously just launch one or the other? Thx

[@DrishalMAC2]

I would recommend uninstalling map enhancement as it can cause a conflict :)

[@juliamackie3066]

I've been running AO version 4.X successfully for a long time, but so failed to install anything above V5. If I were to try this latest version, will it overwrite the existing install and preserve the settings and all the images I have in the cache, or should I start from scratch again? I wouldn't want to lose the 3 million images of New Zealand and Australia so far saved in the cache. If starting from scratch, what should be deleted to ensure a clean new install?

[@DrishalMAC2]

I would recommend starting from scratch as the base packages are different in the newest version and the install process is also slightly different. You may however be able to preserve just your cache folder. To do this I would first uninstall the autoortho app using either the default windows system or something like revo uninstaller. Then delete all of your scenery base packages from wherever you installed them to. Now you can continue with the installation of the latest version. Of you have any issues or questions feel free to ask :)

[@juliamackie3066]

@@DrishalMAC2 Much appreciated! I'll give it a go. Thanks.

[@JuliaMackie]

@@DrishalMAC2 Neither the Windows program uninstall facility nor Revo Pro could detect AO. So the only way I could remove it was by a very careful manual process to eliminate any trace of the original version. And it worked, so we had a (probably) clean environment to install the latest version, which is now running in XP 12.1.1. First attempt starting AO showed errors in its log.txt, but running AO again after running XP and editing scenery.ini indicated zero errors. Important preliminary step: how to preserve and then restore the 2+ million images I had in version 4? This is not easy in Windows, because of its terrible copy/move facility when dealing with huge numbers of files. First, I used Teracopy to put the entire previous AO install somewhere else, and then deleted the original AO folder. Then I installed the new version and renamed its cache file to cache 2, went to the old saved cache file and used Teracopy to put that cache folder back into the AO folder. Then I went back into the cache folder renamed cache 2 and copied its contents into the new cache folder. This exercise took hours, some concentration and a lot of patience. Further tests are needed to prove that this has worked, but in the meantime, I recommend anyone trying to install AO to put it outside the Windows OS folders.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Thank you very much for the information! :)

[@bigmungus4864]

is their anyway to get it run without having it to start it up everytiome ?

[@DrishalMAC2]

No unfortunately not as far as I know.

[@jeddis92]

I've since switched to XP Map Enhancement, as AutoOrtho appears to have been abandoned.

[@XavierLignieres]

Definitely not abandoned at all there has been gaps of 6+ months in between releases of AutoOrtho !

[@DrishalMAC2]

As Xavier has said its definitely not abandoned. I have personally spoken to the dev and he is simply busy with real life stuff. That being said the current version of AO is working very well for me so I don't believe any major update is required right now :)

[@ivalterbaptista2305]

map enhancement was pretty bad for me. Performance wise and to get really good quality ortho you have to pay. Seems shady to me when there is a free tool like autoortho available.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Yes initially map enhancement worked well for me but as it got updated it got worse and worse unfortunately. That's why I have now moved back to AutoOrtho and am very impressed with the quality and performance.

[@MrRobertacusYT]

Do you mind sharing what your specs are? I have been struggling with fps at night so I was wondering what your specs are compared.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Hello, my specs can be found in the video description or in my channel page description :)

[@MrRobertacusYT]

@@DrishalMAC2 Ah, thank you!

[@DrishalMAC2]

No worries :)

[@JosephCorreia-z5h]

HELP Followed installation steps as per your video. When I start X-Plane there are no buildings. The folder z_ao_na/, has been placed at the bottom of the " ini" Please advise. Thanks

[@DrishalMAC2]

Are you using simheaven X-World? If you are not do you have the autoortho overlays folder either in your Custom scenery folder of mounted to it when AutoOrtho starts.

[@JosephCorreia-z5h]

@@DrishalMAC2 Thank you for the prompt response. Yes I am using Simheaven Also tried with autoortho overlays and the result is the same.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Ok, is there any chance you could send a screenshot of the simulator and your .ini to me via discord? It's much easier to provide support there.

[@JosephCorreia-z5h]

@@DrishalMAC2 Not able to do that because I am not on Discord nor on any other social media venue Thanks anyway

[@DrishalMAC2]

Ok I see, if you want feel free to email me at: [e-mail] :)

[@abbyabz6940]

Thank you for the tutorial but I can never get this working, either the download fails which it didn't this time. But I get "warning getortho: Failed with status 403 to get chunk.....

[@DrishalMAC2]

Is there any chance you could send me a screenshot of the error on my discord? It's much easier to provide support there :)

[@abbyabz6940]

@@DrishalMAC2 ok I didn't expect help thanks, will send it over shortly in the xplane help section.

[@DrishalMAC2]

No worries :)

[@kaktus-y3v]

Hi Drishal! Does AutoOrtho work on mac? Or is there an alternative on Mac? Unfortunately I can only play X-Pkane 11 on Windows because my drivers can't be updated and therefore XP12 can't run. Thanks and great vid!

[@DrishalMAC2]

It should work on Mac yes but i think the install method is a bit different. What's the reason for not being able to update your drivers for XP12

[@kaktus-y3v]

@@DrishalMAC2 So basically I use Bootcamp to get windowss on my mac but the drivers are too old and the graphics card isn't supported anymore so I can't run the X-Plane 12 installer. I may have found some updated drivers though. Anyways I need to figure this out this week end.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Ah ok I see. Can't you run X-Plane on MAC natively? Some addons may not work though

[@kaktus-y3v]

@@DrishalMAC2 The thing is I never really managed to get AO to work on mac and also if have fps problems on mac.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Ah right I see :)

[@Cac340]

Here's a tip. If bot using simheaven liie me, don't put the autoortho overlays into custom scenery. Create just the overlays with ortho4xp in the areas you'll be flying into or out of. For example an airport and then one tile surrounding it in every direction. This'll save fps and free about 7-8GB of storage.

[@DrishalMAC2]

While this definitely works. I would recommend just using the provided overlays if not using simheaven. They will be just as good as the ortho4xp ones and will cover the whole world. Your method means having to create the overlay tiles for these areas which could take some time and sort of defeats the purpose of using autoortho rather than ortho4xp. It Your method definitely will work and for those who want to save the extra space is a good option, but for now I recommend using either simheaven or the provided overlays. But as I say, still a valid option and may be useful for some so thanks for the comment :)

[@sc4326]

Mine is saying in the logs that there was Failures detected

[@DrishalMAC2]

Currently some ortho provider servers are down and so it will detect failures. I recommend using bing as it generally looks the best and is fully working. If you set the map type override to bing, then try it in X-Plane and it works fine then you can ignore those failures. I have the same on my system. :)

[@Luchofll]

So, even with the message Failures detected, Autoortho is running? All my sceneries are mounted just getting that failure message which is annoying.

[@DrishalMAC2]

Yes that should be the case :)