How To Use Ortho4XP Version 130 ***Updated***

[@dantheman7357]

Dr. Stephen Hawking, the Astro-Physicist once tried to install OrthoVer1.30 and finally had to give up. Too complicated. Went back to his Physics, Black holes etc, much easier.

[@Grassikify]

@Andrew Grey Me too! Tried many times, different servers with different ZL, followed the video with every step and still no success... Let me know if you´ll figure it out.

[@lete5817]

@Andrew Grey try vstates. You can basically all of America for free with real high quality ortho. Also get Jamaica and Ireland.

[@windshearahead7012]

It’s easy lol. I only found out that thing exists yesterday and I had a few issues at first but then figured it out and now it’s all works perfectly.

[@beechcraft12]

Well I hope that isn't you flying that baron in your profile photo. If you cant follow these simple instructions to install this stuff, well, get out of that baron and get as far away from my airspace as possible!

[@KerbalHub]

haha xddddd

[@george.ogilvie]

The easy way of getting a higher zoom level around airports (instead of going into that preview thing and manually doing it) is to go into settings, and under "DSF/Imagery", set "high_zl_airports" to "True".

[@codym7299]

Thank you so much u have no idea

[@thegood9]

The best, least complicated, most concise, less "listen to me talk" BS. LOVE this one. Def. the best out there. Thank you.

[@jonallsop7502]

Everytime I touch Ortho4XP I immediately come back to this video lol. A link should come in the readme

[@LunasWorld]

Jon Allsop thanks. Glad it helps!

[@BobbyChastain]

Actually, I'm very glad that you didn't load both tiles. That was a GREAT side-by-side of the scenery.

[@dajzilla]

this is SOOOOO MUCH BETTER than all the others! This tutorial is done perfectly! Man... one of the others were all over the place and extremely confusing. This is FANTASTIC!

[@LunasWorld]

dajzilla thanks, much appreciated and glad it helps!

[@janmenzinga]

Great tutotial, I didn't know this all is in fact possible! I stranded for some seconds at the 'make sure you have the red mash' at 8:53, since you didn't tell how to do that. But it's SHIFT + mouseclick. My file is being made now, I'm very curious how it comes out!

[@pc44pilot94]

I did this and I wasn’t sure if it was worth it.. got to about 12000 ft and it opened a new door for me it’s amazing.. thank you for making it understandable..

[@totheknee]

14:06 - Note to self: don't exit flying aircraft to "have a look around." 🤣 Amazing vid, by the way. This clears up the whole process very succinctly.

[@Wanderlinse]

I like that you did not dive to deeply into the program. Your explanation shows the fastest way to get a nice photorealistic scenery.

[@lakismpellos5593]

Thank you for your superb guide, in layman's --or should I say in lay-Xplane-user's-- terms! After watching it, I started creating my ortho tiles and that was the only time I did not give up doing it. Greetings from Greece!

[@nutlangsworld]

I`m a bit late on the subject here but this video allowed me to create Tiles first time round, perfect. Simple concise and to the point video. Thank you so much !!

[@mattcruz5915]

14:06 plane crashes.. "let's just ignore that" 😂🤣

[@mintyaviation2376]

lol

[@kimeshan_n]

This is a great tutorial! One thing that caught me out - make sure you have the default flight scenary in Xplane installed for the Australia/New Zealand region otherwise the overlay step will fail in OrthoXP.

[@ZicajosProductions]

I also noticed the “global scenery” directory needs to be the “X-Plane Global Scenery” folder, which is inside of the “Global Scenery” main folder.

[@sarancha1]

Now I'm flying using Ortho4XP and I feel that I'm enjoying MS Flight Simulator 2020 now. no need to wait for releasing it. Thanks a lot.

[@judgeberry6071]

Great tutorial. The only one that I have properly been able to understood up to until now. It's taken me hours. Time to jump back in my Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and zoom pass my grandkid's houses at mach 3.3. I'll record the video and show them tomorrow they'll be like meh whatever grandad lol. Thanks dude :)

[@GunniesLetsFlyVFR]

Thankyou so much Luna. Awesome. :)

[@bigalexg]

Thanks. Worked first time by simply following your guide. Glad I learned my way around a PC - modding and configurating and whatnot for lo these many years but I still would have found this intimidating without your help.

[@paulphibbs5362]

Hey Wayne, instead of copying the tiles into the XPlane folder environment, you can copy shortcuts to the tiles. This has three benefits: 1) leaves the original tiles in place so you can see what tiles you have produced; 2) reduces the space taken in your Xdrive environment,; 3) allows you to copy the shortcuts to multiple instances of XPlane for beta testing etc.

[@mjstratford]

Hi Paul how do you do that ? I was doing the same as wayne but wanted to know how to automate it

[@paulphibbs5362]

Matthew Stratford Hi Matthew, it doesn’t automate the process, it mainly allows me to leave the tiles on a drive/folder of my choosing and distribute links to the tiles (which are tiny in size) to the appropriate folder in Xplane. This is manually intensive but easy enough to do. I first select the generated tiles by date and create shortcuts. I then move or copy the shortcuts to the folder in Xplane. If I have multiple instances of Xplane, I simply repeat the copy to the other installations. Very little space is consumed.

[@mjstratford]

Paul could you explain how this is done please , appreciate it , also useful to see what tiles have been done,

[@LunasWorld]

Thanks Paul, yep, this video is just the very basics of how to create a tile. I'll be doing another more advanced video showing the other features of the software soon.

[@Drunkmonkey8294]

@@mjstratford Hi Matthew, I was going to comment as did Paul. Just copy the same directories (i.e., the ortho and mesh [lat/long] folders) as shown in the video. On windows use the right mouse button and then select "Create shortcuts here" from the menu when dropping them in the scenery folder. On a Mac just create an alias folder. Good Luck

[@modelrailwaynoob]

I edit the scenery file before starting X-Plane so the lines are in the correct place before I start the game. This saves a lot of time and I never have problems.

[@kyledarrenhanson]

Very appreciated. I wasted my time on a few other tutorials that failed me getting it working, but your video was excellent and so happy to be now using Ortho!

[@leedearmond1040]

Thanks!

[@Jimbo-in-Thailand]

+1 Luna's World - Great update tutorial! Yes, Ortho4XP is an excellent tool, but this video shows a glaring weakness, either in Ortho4XP, or X-Plane itself, that I hope will be addressed at some point. Wouldn't it be great if there was an option to select a smaller tile size than the massive 1° x 1° lat-lon chunk? And the problem is magnified when having to grab 2 or more huge ~7GB tiles, as in this video. An example is my hometown back in the US, which unfortunately is nearly at the lower left corner of a tile. It means I would have to process and store 4 huge tiles just to get the whole city and surrounding area. I realize we can use lower resolution ZL zones for unimportant areas to save file space but 4 tiles would still be massive, and overkill. With my luck, most places I want to add seem to be near a tile corner. Go figure. Another wish list item is to be able to zoom IN and OUT in the Tiles Collection map to easily confirm our tile selection. Of course, since Ortho4XP is free it's only fair to make suggestions and not gripe too much. Cheers from Thailand!

[@SimbaC2007]

Step 4 : Extracting overlay for tile +46-069 : -------- ERROR: file Earth nav data\+40-070\+46-069.dsf absent. Recall that the overlay source directory needs to be set in the config window first.

[@wolfgang_h_mahr]

Hi, thanks for the great video. At 10:45 you mention to copy the overlay files. I’m not getting this folder, but it seems it does not matter, as I get the tiles and their contents in XPlane 11 properly displayed. I checked all relevant boxes before creation and also set the pointer to the Global Scenery in the application configuration.

[@francsalazar]

Amazing tutorial!!!! thank you very much for this! My SSD does not agree, however...hehehe. Seriously, thank you for taking the time for doing this. I thought that the whole ortho thing was sitting right next to rocket science, but you managed to explain it in a way that us mere mortals can use it and enjoy it. A beer for you, man!

[@justadroid]

Hey mate, like others have said, this a very simple and helpful tutorial. Thankyou for taking the time to do it.

[@tofuComputer]

Thank you! I literally followed along in my left monitor and had you in my right. You made the install and config super clear and easy!

[@Stringbean421]

Thank you for this updated tutorial. Very helpful and much appreciated.

[@srdjanmiljkovic1908]

Thanks mate, finally an explanation that makes sense :) Real nice work.

[@divinglee]

Wow! Great video. Finally making Ortho4XP has become not that complicated as it was months before. Thank you so mcuh!

[@seawolf5748]

I don't know why but, I have problems with overlays... I did everything just the same

[@tonsomhorst4598]

I like your explanation of how to use different sources. Thanks...

[@GermanStelmakh]

leaving the plane crashing to show us the beatiful scenery haha love it.

[@samnooriala869]

Great video. Lot better than other ones I have seen!

[@looseparts]

I certainly couldn't have done it without you. Thanks so much! Sometimes I had to pause or go back, but all the steps are there and it's really clear. Great video tutorial.

[@gracegriffin2613]

I just thought that I would say that you don't have to move the files, you can use shortcuts into the Custom Scenery folder.

[@simonmartinez8480]

So I did all your steps but the ortho doesn’t show up when I play Xplane. What could be the issue ? I put the Y and Z file in the locations you stated . It’s my first time using ortho4 Xplane

[@THEBeamer-77]

Great video bruh. Easily explained and easily understood.

[@chickennuggetdoctor5689]

Great tutorial man! Thanks for contributing to the X-Plane community!

[@flyairch]

thank you for this video. this really works and I am converting from my laptop and it has only 250gb so I have to set zoom level to 16 lowest as possible. this works exactly. you don't need phyton or anything.

[@stevencard]

Extremely detailed but simple to follow. Great tutorial

[@scottishwings9648]

Once again very good, clear and easy to understand and follow!👍 You have a very nice way of explaining things!

[@adammadi9109]

Thanks for the tutorial! It was really helpful. I was watching your old tutorial, which wouldn't work, even after the tenth time. But this one was very easy.

[@_pjd]

I didn't get an overlay folder...?

[@Hi-mt3lp]

PJ D the overlay folder should be in the same place where all the ortho software is

[@kd4wcl]

@@Hi-mt3lp There is no overlay folder within the Ortho4XP folder and sub-folders that the installation built. I now have a successfully completed batch process with no overlay folder. I have looked everywhere . No there.

[@dtrjones]

Excellent video Wayne, thanks buddy!

[@mraviation7710]

Thanks man! I was really struggling with Ortho4XP but now I got it!!

[@garrettthorn5048]

Awesome job explaining! Best Ortho tutorial I have seen

[@billymog]

Great tutorial. Very well explained and easy to follow even for a doughnut like me. Well done fella

[@ricardohotbrakes1458]

I found one instruction missing as i could not get batch build to work .. another video showed the need to hold down the "shift" key and then mouse click the active tile to get the proper selection of the tile . After that the batch build option works

[@Julian-tf8nj]

Helpful... and it worked, thanks! ONE QUESTION: why do the Ortho overlays go ABOVE the Global Airports and above the landmarks and the demo areas... but BELOW some specific airports? 12:14

[@CyberSystemOverload]

Excellent video thank you, im just getting into O4XP and you explain very clearly! Im following along now with the program on the othe screen!

[@AlpineWarren]

What's the best way to keep track of which tiles you've already generated when expanding an area?

[@svenge_]

I just found a way to do this by setting the "Base Folder" to your "...X-Plane 11/Custom Scenery" folder. It highlighted all the tiles I already had rendered.

[@gianlucarende5501]

Thanks for the video! Is great and I have been able to know how to use Ortho4XP to create my own tiles, very useful mate, thank you.

[@jackbronson1471]

Superbe video. Merci. Question : porquoi quand je vol bas tous mes batiments sont plas ? Merci de votre aide. Christian

[@markuspokusa8021]

I cannot open the programme... Can somebody help ? When I open it, it just crashes and disappears.

[@thijshuiberts2604]

i did exactly what the video says but i did not get an ortho4xp overlays file. does anyone know what to do???

[@jeffreyvontobel6440]

Found a fix... forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/152400-ortho4xp-130-not-generating-overlay-folder/

[@pancake4425]

You're a funny guy. Jumping out of your plane and when you hear it crashing saying "just ignore that". Nerves of steel!

[@curtiscampbell6158]

Great vid finally got it to work but each time you add a new area do you need to place new overlay file above airports in config file each time

[@ota2012]

For each tile that I create, I had to update the overlay folder or do I have to create many overlay folders with different names?

[@MauriceColontonio]

I'm fairly certain the y-overlays folder needs to go right above your z-ortho in the scenery.ini file, not above global airports

[@jan3245]

Great video, thank you. Just a heads up on copying the files over to the X-plane directory. I like to keep all my tiles in the Ortho4XP folder and just copy a shortcut and place it in the X-plane folder. The same goes for the Overlays folder. Its quicker and easier to maintain imho.

[@n9878f]

Finally I am able to use overlays correctly. Thank you so much. I’ve successfully loaded 1 area with overlays. I have one question though... when you cut and paste the overlays file in ortho4xp into the xplane custom scenery file what is the procedure to add another area? Doesn’t ortho4xp need the overlays folder in its original location or how do I make sure I can keep repeating this video process. I feel like if I’ve cut and pasted the overlays folder into the custom scenery folder how do I make sure the proper files are put into the ortho4xp overlays folder if I’ve moved it into custom scenery?

[@randyparsons3188]

I think that was a mistake. Ortho needs that folder.

[@yasserfahmi9963]

10:30 YOU MADE ME SUFFOCATE!!! THAT BFILE IS SO BIG

[@johndavis9256]

I'm going to download v1.3 and redo some of my Thailand tiles since some of my airports have ridiculous gradient changes in places. I believe v1.3 is supposed to do a better flattening job. That settings page looks scary though. Like you said, probably best left alone :).

[@LunasWorld]

Fantastic! I definitely need to do more Thailand tiles! Yeah, this version does a lot of the complex stuff right out of the box allowing everyone (no matter of expertise level) to get good results. Win-win!

[@xplane1199]

I did not have the yOrtho4XP_Overlays folder to copy into the custom scenery folder. Any idea why that was not there? I followed every step. Thanks

[@MagnumMike44]

I kept getting warnings and errors when I tried it using BIng imagery, the text said something like "WARNING: Could not convert texture...... " and then after a number of those warnings an error appeared that said "ERROR: [same text as the warnings] (10 tries)". This was repeated through the entire process.

[@shigsisovich9893]

Make sure to put "Use decal on Terrain" to True for a better terrain effect.

[@tenskippern1394]

Good explanations, please continue with other subjects,. Thank you

[@glengrotendorst3865]

Thank you. I've tried several and this tutorial finally got it done. You do one thing different. Putting the Overlays above the Global Airports. No one else I watched did that. I do have one bug. My local Daytona Airport I added on steam does not show the photo scenery. I have to fly outside of that add on area and then I see it. Thanks again for your time. G

[@Richard-si7of]

Hmm, for some reason there’s 1 tile that gets stuck on uncompressing (step 4). It’s weird how its just that one. Thanks for the help!!!

[@jonnymince]

What do you do if you want to do another tile. Copying the 2 files from the tiles folder is asking if i want to replace the file as one with the same name is already in the xplane file. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the vid :)

[@curtusua]

M1NCE I’d like to know the answer to this too... and how to do multiple tiles. My computer skills are a bit weak but this tutorial was very informative and I may give it a try. I’m trying to decide whether this program or Forkboy’s ortho is the easier choice.

[@carlosa.avalle528]

Several people (including me) have asked this question and so far I've seen no replies. If you figured out how to do that I would appreciate a reply!

[@mraviation7710]

Everything goes very smooth but at the end when I load in the sim it says cannot read a few files but I follow all the steps

[@CanadianTexaninLiguria]

Everyone on the forum says DO NOT put the overlays in Global Scenery and leave this folder alone....

[@chrisloach9658]

Hang on so what are you doing when you are setting the paths at the start if you are moving files manually at the end?

[@hubertnovak5919]

help...followed the steps and sadly getting error saying "could not convert texture"..followed everything to the letter?

[@51fty49]

what do I do if the overlay thing wansnt in my ortho

[@DuesGibGolfandLife]

@@r3gflm916 im getting the same thing. Its not generating the overlay file. I dont understand your reply sorry.

[@AlexandreHill70]

Brilliant video! Wouldn't of managed it myself! My first attempt following your steps went very smoothly,however, on my second attempt, still with your video, I kept getting the "OSM server DE rejected our query" - even though I had selected BING images.... Don't understand what is happening :/

[@jetcat120]

I have tried this and i cannot get the overlays to show in the sim. I have made sure that the correct folders for custom_scenery_dir and custom_overlay_src have been selected as you have shown in the video. I assume once the tile has been created i just put it in the Custom Scenery folder and no other work is needed. In the Scenery.ini file i don't see any (y) prefix names.

[@anduboi2750]

I am trying to get orhto to Alps, but I get ALOT of white slots. In the main tab of installing ortho, it says that image could not be obtained even with lower ZL. What shall I do?

[@guidanceint]

Thank you for posting this. I followed your instructions and they have helped me a great deal. I have one problem which I do not understand. When I start up Xplane 11 I can see the new photo image but the houses and buildings are not in 3D. Can someone tell me how to get things to look in 3d.

[@SketchyFilms100]

hi their this has been really helpful, but my overlays didn't come out, so is their anyway i can do it just by it self(overlays)

[@airaction2257]

I'm not getting the red mesh in the square what do i need to do i have followed all the instructions ?

[@kd4wcl]

There is no overlay folder within the Ortho4XP folder and sub-folders that the installation built. I now have a successfully completed batch process with no overlay folder. I have looked everywhere . Not there.

[@kd4wcl]

...and yes, I had all of the Batch Build Boxes checked, including Extract overlays.

[@laurencemichael221]

How come I followed the steps 100% and my airport buildings in XP disappeared? How do I fix this?

[@flaksjhfdi]

check mod order in scenery_packs.ini ("X-Plane 11\Custom Scenery\"). It needs to be put after custom airports, preferably at the end of the load order.

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

Grrrr Xplane 11 does my head in at times. I made 'Big Bear City Airport' scenery all finished . Started X-Plane and looked wonderful! But tonight I started X-Plane and started at said Airport and there was my OrthoXP scenery but the Autogen was gone!? What's the deal?

[@bwallace5692]

Thanks for this, works great, I was even able to put tiles in custom scenery folder on separate HDD to free up space on SSD. One question I have though is am I able to download tile info from another location (with faster and unlimited internet) and then copy and compile them to computer running X-plane? I noticed you have to put in the directories for global scenery first so I am not sure if it was possible to download and compile tiles without X-plane being on the computer.

[@TBolt1]

22h48m9sec! Almost made it to 24 hours - so glad Ortho4XP didn’t crash.

[@Hi-mt3lp]

TBolt did u download a whole country? 😯😂

[@TBolt1]

Hi lol no ... about a dozen sectors of Southern California. I was surprised it took that long, but the results are worth the wait 👍🙂

[@pathfinderproject9381]

You have to turn maximum objects to maximum to get the overlay

[@Badger6052]

This program Ortho4XP was working well until I tried to produce two tiles and overlays for Oahu [in Hawaii], now all I get is "Recall that the overlay source directory needs to be set in the configuration window first" - which I did - but it will not produce the overlays...can anybody help?

[@hwh888]

Can I rename the Ortho4XP tile X-Y to a different name? Like where it is i.e. Central New York so I have a idea what each tile is? Thanks for the reply. Harry

[@TylerWynn]

I am making ~170 tiles, do you have any suggestions on if I could put then in one folder within the custom scenery folder?

[@joshuaauterson4782]

For some reason I keep getting error messages during the last step saying it cannot generate the ortho file. Attempts it 10 times for each file and does it for almost every file during the final step.

[@abotoohy]

what about the buildings ? because when I made the city by Ortho all the buildings have disappeared!!! PLEASE HELP

[@GTARogelio1]

so what do i do when i would want to add another square to xplane from ortho?

[@yellow-kiwi]

Wonderful !! I'm looking for this tutor. Thanks you very much.

[@gamestv4875]

This was awesome , thanks. How does this compare to Orbx ?

[@cohenjc1256]

thankyou for the vid i dont have the yortho4xp overlays file what should i do?

[@adidell]

Great video! Question: if I have already downloaded the tiles (did a reinstall of XPlane) from say Bing at 17, can I skip that like in the older Ortho4XP? If not, ok. I’m having a weird issue in the latest XPlane where the tiles are there but the topography just isn’t being generated properly. Have pics from two years ago and they look awesome. Now it’s literally falling flat. Any ideas?

[@thiagopferreira]

Mine is just opening the black screen quickly and suddenly close itself. Any idea about what could be doing that??

[@rockware1947]

I press the "Download Anyway" and nothing happens. Why will it not download?