Ortho4XP 1.30 | How to COLOR CORRECT Miscolored Areas in Photoreal Scenery [Tutorial|X-Plane 11]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
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In this Ortho4XP tutorial I would like to show you what (free) tools I use to manually color correct areas that have a different color tint than the surroundings. This is especially noticeable around airports you fly in or out of, as it happened to me in this example for London Luton Airport with Google satellite imagery. I hope this tutorial will be useful for you.
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Thank you for sharing this video, very helpful! The more I dig into it, the more I have realized that xplane 11 is 50% about flying and 50% about design/photo-shop/programming/ecc. :)
Yeah I know what you mean ;) Thanks for watching!
You are a brilliant teacher. I love your soft accent - it is so easy to listen to!!
Now that I know how to do this, I can get back to making amazing tiles for free. Thank you so much. Seriously. You have the best tutorials for this!
to the point and simple to understand. I have learned a lot about ortho4xp primarily because of your tutorials. Thank you
Thanks for the well explained tutorial. Been looking to find out how to do this. On the downside I've now got a whole pile of tiles to go through and fix!!! :D
Wow, was very disappointed in my edited tiles with color mis-match. This video came along at the perfect time.
Thanks again for a very well detailed “how to” presentation.
Thank you Mr. for sharing your knowledge with us!
As usual a very good tutorial.
Wow exactly what I was looking for !! you are magician :) thanks
Thank you for the video! Hope you are well.
These are awesome Ortho tips you keep sharing. Much appreciated
Very nice!!!! Love your videos. Thank you so much!!!!!
Graet tutorial my friend. Just subscribed!!!
Great video. Very useful. Thanks a lot
WOWm that was exactly what I was wondering!! THANK YOU !
Thanks, this gave me some ideas
Thank you - very easy instruction!!! Is it possible to delete/cover cloud layer?
Getting rid of clouds isn't easy unfortunately, you could try to take a screenshot of a different satellite imagery source without clouds, cut out the area and paste it over the cloudy area in the original imagery. Cheers
Super video. Appreciate it!
Excellent video...👍
Top tip: you can do this directly to the downloaded photos inside the Orthos-Folder (Ortho4XP\Orthophotos\). That way, you don't have to touch DDS files directly, because it's all just JPEGs. Additionally, you don't have to re-do this if you ever regenerate your scenery, because Orthos will just replace all of your manually edited files again. Of course, for the changes to take effect, you will have to regenerate the tiles with Orthos after editing.
That's correct, also the raw JPEGs can be edited and then saved as DDS files, but afterwards you have to drag those edited files into the "zOrtho4XP...\textures\" folder and overwrite the old files. I found it easier to directly edit the converted DDS files as it saves a step. I'm not sure if repeating the "Build imagery" step in O4XP would apply the changes, as it will just find out that all the texture files are already present and it won't recognize any changes to the JPEG files. But thanks for pointing this out! :)
@@SimulationChannelDeluxe true, you'd also have to remove the cache I suppose, but it should then re-generate the tiles with the new base images. I'd have to test that I guess, anyway, super Tutorial :).
@@prabe Thank you :)
This is great! 👍 Last year I experimented with color correcting some Thailand scenery tiles using Gimp and came up with an almost identical solution.
Are you familiar with patching/adjusting mesh in small areas? If so, a tutorial would really really really be appreciated. 😊
Sorry, but I didn't try out mesh modification yet lol. But thanks for all your nice comments, I'm glad you like the tutorials :) Cheers
Very useful.Danke!
Thanks for the info! Question: how do you get that external pan and zoom with no plane in the image?
Well that can be achieved with X-Plane's views system, by using keyboard commands to move the camera however you like. I have a tutorial right here: th-cam.com/video/6pkL5wNSYs4/w-d-xo.html Cheers
Many thanks to you sir! It is a bit of a shame that paint.net doesn't have a poly selection tool. A lot of bing's discolouration is in straight line sections. May have to look at photoshop for this. Cheers from Australia
Does Photoshop read and write dss files?
Thank You for the great videos , do u give private lessons for xp11 if one lives in Germany
Thank you for watching them ;) Maybe I would give lessons lol, what exactly do you have in mind?
Many Thanks for your reply , what i need to know is how to program the FMC as a beginner as well as the routes and maps knowledge and how its used
@@973sierra6 Sorry for the late reply. You can find my email on my channel info page here on YT, if you have any specific ideas how it could work then feel free to write me. I also speak German ;) I live in North-Rhine Westphalia in western Germany by the way. Cheers
Sehr hilfreich... auch wenn es eine Schweinearbeit ist. Vor allem wenn man Bing und Google mixt und es dann doch halbwegs einheitlich haben will. Frage: Gibt es auch einen Weg einen Wald dort zu platzieren, wo er auch hingehört? Is there a way to create a forrest where it should be, related to the texture on the ground?
Ja es ist eine Riesenarbeit wenn man komplette Tiles wirklich einheitlich haben möchte, daher geht es hier eher darum, kleine Bereiche die WIRKLICH hässlich aussehen zu verbessern. Das ist auch schon ne Menge Arbeit ;) Bzgl. der Wälder, das ist leider nicht ohne weiteres möglich. Dafür müsste man irgendwie die OSM Daten für Wälder in den Simulator bekommen. Vielleicht mal die HD Mesh Scenery oder X-EUROPE versuchen, das könnte schon Verbesserungen bringen. Grüße
May I suggest a tutorial? How to make the Airports look better.. sometimes even ZL19 doesnt look good!! THANK YOU!
Yeah TheFSXChannel201 is correct, if the area just doesn't have good satellite imagery coverage then there's nothing to do about it. One general advice I can give is that usually Google imagery is a lot more sharp and crisp than Bing for example, so I usually choose GO2 for ZL18 and ZL19 around airports. Cheers and thanks for your comments :)
Download the ApplyDecals tool and apply decals to your tiles. Helps alot.
@@alliverti1466 I agree, decals makes a huge diff. There's a built in option to apply the decals in Ortho4xp ;)
I generated Ortho4XP for whole of Europe with ZL16. Each night I generated a country. Unfortunately, also if you generate a country in one batch, there will be tiles with a different color tint. That is a huge problem because it looks ugly. So I thought about correcting the tiles manually but came to the conclusion that it is just too much work, I have to accept it.
True, the color differences and clouds on orthos are a huge problem. Fixing all the issues in Europe's tiles would take ages lol.
Can you please color correct orthos 4 Norway :)
Thank you very much for the video. When I click on save it says "flatten" - I can only choose that, is that right?
Then you forgot to "flatten"/ combine the layers before saving. That's an important step before you can save the files as .dds.
Simulation Channel Deluxe
Is it explained in the this video? Maybe I didn’t see it ... ;-)
@@danielpike3778 Yes: 9:15
Simulation Channel Deluxe Thank you!
Beim Speichern habe ich gar nicht diese Einstellungsmöglichkeiten. Weißt du, wieso das so ist?
Womöglich hast du vergessen die verschiedenen Ebenen zu "verschmelzen", passiert mir auch manchmal. Dann speichert paint .net das ganze nur als .pdn Projekt Datei. Wenn man alles auf ein Layer kombiniert und (als .dds) speichert, müssten die Einstellungen erscheinen.
@@SimulationChannelDeluxe Hab den Fehler gefunden, danke
What are your main ortho4xp settings
Everything default except "apt_smoothing_pix=32" and "ratio_water=1.0". Overlays created with alpilotX's HD Mesh v4 set as the "custom_overlay_src".
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