Ortho4XP 1.30 | Complete Step by Step Tutorial +HD Mesh v4 Tips [X-Plane 11]
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In this extensive step by step guide for Ortho4XP 1.30 I will cover the complete process of creating a photoreal scenery tile for X-Plane 11. This tutorial is suited for absolute beginners as well as more advanced users, since all basic steps are covered (e.g. setup, interface, world map, custom zoom levels etc.), but also more advanced techniques will be explained (e.g. choosing the right image provider, using features of AlpilotX's HD Mesh scenery, getting rid of clouds, checking for damaged image files etc.). There's also a short before/after comparison near the end of the video. I hope you will find this tutorial useful.
Ortho4XP forum link (+download): goo.gl/v99jfL
XPTools download: goo.gl/Qa68XU
Music by myself © Simulation Channel Deluxe
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UPDATED 2019 Full Tutorial with less hassle: th-cam.com/video/MdimKEn2C6Q/w-d-xo.html
Other tutorials for Ortho4XP (extend this comment to see more):
How to improve the water appearance: th-cam.com/video/OL9-STzzFnA/w-d-xo.html
How to create multiple tiles at once: th-cam.com/video/a7NP-Lw8Oes/w-d-xo.html
How to get perfect and smooth runway slopes: th-cam.com/video/Pkdwknj525k/w-d-xo.html
How to get sharper photoreal imagery when very close to the ground: th-cam.com/video/hf_-_V4sUZU/w-d-xo.html
GERMAN/DEUTSCHE Version meiner Ortho4XP Tutorials: th-cam.com/video/4cX7nBcpBWQ/w-d-xo.html
Ok so I followed your advise from another video in regards to scenery.ini order, I then removed all previous Orthoxp files I had previously used. I then followed this video verbatim and paused to ensure I was doing EVERYTHING as you did up to and including the Leipzig Germany area as you did. I made sure and counted every tile you used from ZL16-ZL18 to ensure I had it exactly as you did, I am also using the same programs and all the same scenery's as you do. I made sure my load order was correct, however after loading into X-Plane and getting into the airplane it appeared as if I were in a large valley or hole where the airport was, the roads appeared to run off a cliff and house were situated as if the were on the wall of the cliff.. the outskirts over on the actual flat area of land looked fine, the only exception was the immediate area surrounding the airport which was in a very large valley or hole where the ZL-18 was at. What did I do wrong. I sincerely appreciate your help and the videos are great, I just don't understand how yours looked completely flat and mine looked.. well stupid lol
I will add looking back is I only found +50-010.dsf not +51-012 anywhere with in either x-plane itself or zzz.hd_global_scenery4, I am thinking that could be the problem. I am redoing everything again but downloading open scenery, ff_library as well as r2_library.. hopefully I can find that +51-012.dsf
Well so far I cannot find +51-012.dsf anywhere 😞
A most excellent tutorial introduction into how to effectively use Ortho4XP for newbies like me.
I found your explanations relatively easy to follow and clearly presented.
I've always wondered if it was possible to get a greater resolution in specific small areas of an earth tile.
Now I know how - thank you sir !
4 years later i liked subbed and turned all notis on,hope i still made ur day:)
Thank you for making such tutorials, that one is mostly excellent. BUT one important remark though : Ortho4XP always builds its own mesh, it will never take HD Mesh Scenery v4 mesh. What you extract in your video is not HD Mesh Scenery v4 mesh, it is HD Mesh Scenery v4 elevation dataset, and the latter happens to be the same* (viewfinderpanorama 3") dataset as the default Ortho4XP elevation data source, so you could have skipped that part. You should think of elevation data as being the raw material from which the program is going to sculpt a mesh (using other information like runway locations etc), and that sculpting procedure (Assemble vector dara + Triangulate 3D mesh in the case of Ortho4XP) is actually most of the work and of the code. From HD Mesh Scenery v4 you will only ever use the Scenery part (i.e. overlays, and only if you wish to use that rather than e.g. X-Europe, which doesn't need any extraction and which I would personnally prefer for Europe].
I'd be glad if you could make that clear in some way in the video. You have a large audience and in such case all advises and statements are likely to propagate quickly (I actually landed here from a question on a different page). This is excellent for 99% of the video, but not that single part.
Thank you again anyhow!
Oscar
* actually : the dataset included in HD Mesh Scenery v4 is viewfinderpanorama with already some (I'd say: too much) smoothing included. The current Ortho4XP airport code can deal with raw elevation data and does its own smoothing + auto-patching sculpting work, so not only you could but perhaps you should have skipped that extraction part.
Thank you for your clarification and compliments, Oscar :) And maybe I didn't use the most correct terms in the video, but I'm indeed intending to extract the elevation data from HD Mesh v4. One question: If Ortho4XP's and HD Mesh v4's elevation data are the same, how does the "curvature_tol" in the settings come into play? Does it still modifiy the mesh triangles like in 1.20b and doesn't that result in different elevation data than HD Mesh v4? With version 1.20b of your tool, I played around quite a bit with that setting and the resulting elevation data was different to the one of HD Mesh v4. Also I will pin your comment so everyone will see it on top.
Because (despite the name) the elevation data is NOT the elevation of the points of the mesh, it is only used as one (among other) ingredients to give altitudes to the actual mesh points. Sorry for following strange (yet pertinent!) comparison. Think of the mesh creation as the process of making a cake. The elevation data is one of the ingredients (say the flour), and the final mesh is the cake itself. What can influence the result in two cases where we would be using the same flour ? Certainly the cook (Ortho4XP in your case, or Meshtool for the HD Mesh Scenery v4 mesh), the recipe (curv_tol is typically part of the modificable parts of Ortho4XP recipe), and the time spent on details like decoration (levelling roads and sculpting nicely rounded airports could be understood as decoration - it has nothing to do with the raw elevation data which is usually a terrible bumpy land at small scale).
v120b, v130 and Meshtool are all using the same flour as default (in all cases you can bring you own flour if you have some, and v130 can bring it for you in some cases).
v130 has mostly the same default recipe as v120b, but it spends much more efforts on details and decoration.
Hi Oscar. So if I'm following correctly, we can skip the section where we use XPTools? Wait for the all-in-one button to do its thing, then extract the overlay?
@@samuelh31992 You can absolutely do that, but I will stick to my XPTools method since I discovered some elevation inconsistencies with the mesh generated by Ortho4XP, e.g. a building at EDDF on a high plateau. To each their own :)
Good to know! I'll continue with that process. The results are great! Thank you.
This tutorial is fantastic!!!! Very very nicely explained with out horrible background music.
I think other people must learn how to make videos like this. Because you are trying to
learn something and do not want to hear horrible music during that time.
Thanks a lot.
100% right on!
Your tutorials are miles above anyone else who has put out Otho tutorials. Thank you so much for your amazing contribution to the X-plane community.
This is awesome...as a first time user of Ortho4XP this is just what I need to understand the entire process including the advanced features. THANK YOU!
Great tutorial. I wish I would have found this channel yesterday. I was able to install 1.30 in no time. Excellent work!
I liked the "excuse that it is in German" line. Cracked me up.
Find es klasse, dass du dir nicht die geringste Mühe gibst, die englische Sprache wie ein Amerikaner oder Brite auszusprechen, sondern schlicht zu deinem deutschen Akzent stehst. Ich finde, wir brauchen uns da gar nicht anpassen oder gar zu schämen. Franzosen oder Italiener reden ja auch englisch mit ihrem oft extrem unverständlichen Akzent. Unserer ist wenigstens super akkurat und clear.
Oh vielen Dank haha ;)
This is really great. I've been wanting to build a nice tile around my home field for a long time. The task always seemed so daunting. You're tutorial really makes this pretty simple. Thank you so much!
Vielen herzlichen Dank. Alles hat genauso funktioniert, wie du es beschrieben hast. Das ist die beste Anleitung ever. Auch für Leute die davon nicht viel Ahnung haben, wirklich sehr verständlich erklärt!
Many many thanks. Everything worked the way you described it. That's the best guide ever. Also for people who do not have much idea, really very understandable explained!
This is the best tutorial on orthos I have found, thank you!
Just a brilliant explanation! I had lots of "aha" moments... yesterday I went for it I did my first tile ever. Super happy with the end result. Thanks
Danke, Dein english ist nicht schlect mein Herr!! My german is the same. The video has been a great help to me and I would love to see more from you on this subject.
I have HD mesh installed over the Alps, Pyrenees and Scandinavia. I downloaded a tile for Innsbruck. I experimented with and without the tile. And WITH the tile it looks absolutely STUNNING. I read that the two are not compatible. But its= seems as though they are...:)
Thank you so much for this in-depth tutorial! You explained every step and process fluently even though English isn't your first language. Most tutorials that I found for Ortho4XP were either v120 or, if it was v130 it wasn't in-depth. You're the reason I have much more beautiful scenery for my favorite areas in X-Plane 11! Thank you once again!
No question about it. If I want to know how to do something I just listen to his tutorials. Simply the BEST.
Great tutorial. Thanks for making this, it got me up and running in no time.
Absolutely fantastic. The BEST ortho4xp tutorial I have seen. I would never have known that overlays can only be made in the batch build section. Vielen dank! Saved and subbed!
Thanks so much mate and happy new year!
I too am German, Moin, moin. For the sake of other tubers I will continue in English. Thank you for clearing up a major point about 1.30. So many people produce tutorials purely for the sake of posting and hoping to farm clicks, click-baiting. This is wrong and should be banned but sadly it is not. You, Sir have provided good and factual information here. Mr Pilote would be proud. I have been using 1.20b for some time and I agree with you the learning curve is steep. Many do not understand how this program works and therefore have many problems. The first being that they have watched too many of these tutorials made by people who have no idea what they are talking about. Second is provider selection. BI works well, GO2, I can not get to work. I will follow you and hope to learn more. Thank you for your work.
Danke dir für deine sehr, sehr netten Worte :) Und Google funktioniert bei dir nicht?
Just super explanation and even in a second language! Thank you for taking the time to explain this. Very clear and pleasant presentation.
That was a surprise, help from the Meister himself. It is wonderful to learn from the person who created the program. I am excited and waiting for more information on this subject. Thanks to you and Mr. Pilote, I will try to do justice to your work.
Absolutely outstanding presentation and information. So clear, easy to follow a difficult concept, when presented this way, step by step. Simply the BEST. Thanks again and keep them coming!
Ops I almost forgot my question. When I use WED and remove the flatten command in WED in the custom scenery (EDDF by Areosoft), the runways are great but some terminals are floating for the most part. Any fix or solutions to this? Makes no difference if I manually remove the flatten command in the apt.dat. Thanks so much!
Thank you for taking all the time in making and explaining the latest version of t.his software. I have all the tiles for the UK and some of Spain and I never knew that you can use both Google and Bing together BRILLIANT! I came across your videos yesterday whilst searching around and I cam across the Zibo Video and now this which as made me a very happy simmer.
I'm glad you find my videos useful :)
the first sensible 1.30 video. thank you!
Lucid explanation on how to get started with Ortho4XP. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for taking your time to make these very insightful video's. We would be lost without them....
this works perfectly on my sim thank you. I am not a fan of the discoloration between tiles in some areas but may just have to follow your tutorial on that one as well. Thanks for the video
I have to say this is one the best tutorials that I have seen on this subject great job!
One of the best explanation I have seen for Ortho4XP and HD Mesh. Great job!
You are the best! Thanks so much for all of your extremely helpful information! 😁👏👏👏🙏🏼👍
Thanks for this awesome tutorial, I watched the other tutorial on setting 1.30 up and got so lost, Gave up and stuck with the older version.. TILL NOW. excellent Thanks a mint.
Thank you for the info. I'm thinking of picking up X-plane and using the ortho4xp tool to give it a graphical boost.
This is a great video and I do thank you for your contribution.
Thank you for this quite brilliant tutorial, like other simmers I have wanted to upgrade the Xplane default scenery at my airports but never knew how, until now. I have subscribed to your channel and will watch your tutorials closely. Now all I have to do is implement your directions. Here goes. Many thanks again.
I had been struggling with so many questions relative to integrating ortho4xp and hd mesh; this is the most lucid and comprehensive description I ever came across. Thank you so much! Unfortunately the exec version of ortho4xp v1.30 does not appear to be available anymore, so I have to explore the harder python environment setup route.
Thanks a lot! For me the O4XP download is still working, are you looking in the correct place? It's in the signature of the first forum post, and the link is called "Windows binary package for v130".
Hi Simulation Channel Deluxe. A thousand thanks for this tutorial. Have watched many tutorials on how to use Ortho4XP but the end result was never successful. Your tutorial has been the best so far and I was able to achieve the results as expected. Just signed up to your channel. looking forward to other great tutorials. Also thanks to the creator of Ortho4XP. Unfortunately, being the creator, he is the one that should be putting out a thorough tutorial rather than criticizing the work of someone that presented a tutorial with successful results.
All he was doing is correcting one item that was relatively important. I appreciated Oscar clearing that up.
Thank you so much for this, finally got it working!
lmao at the end you said "hell yea" at the same time as me in my head xD
Excellent video! I followed the steps and the results were amazing! Thank you for your work!
Wow. Thank you so much for making these videos. This and the 2 other videos mentioned really helped me out. Found an old 3 TB drive and used your instructions and used the shortcuts and XPlane is very different for me! Now I just need to do something with shaders and I'd be happy!
It looks amazing but I think I am having a problem. The DSF files keep becoming "absent." I can build the tiles and they look great but I am missing autogen, I have the overlay folder in the orthoxp main folder, then a shortcut into my custom scenery. When I look in that folder, I don't see the proper dsf file. And yes, I did the "build overlay" function as you mention and yes, the "custom_overlay_src" points to X-plane11 global scenery folder. Its really wierd.
Thank you, this was an excellent tutorial
Thanks for the awesome people who made all this possible including Oscar and you for the great tutorial.
Can't wait to try this, when I get home. Vielen dank
Deluxe ist beinahe noch untertrieben. Super Tutorial!!! Selbst mit meinen sparsamen Englishkenntnissen habe ich fast alles verstanden. :-)
geht doch
Eine deutsche Version des Tutorials ist jetzt verfügbar: th-cam.com/video/4cX7nBcpBWQ/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much for this excellent video @simulation channel deluxe! Thanks to you and to this video I'm now creating my own ortho-tiles! And because of that I had to buy another hard disk today (8 TB), ha ha! This is so much fun!
Thank you so much for this advanced tut.. Would have been lost without your help.
Great tutorial - This helped me make a zoom tile on my fav airport, it looks fantastic in my Cessna 172
Superb - best I have seen on explaining Orth4XP.
Amazing that such a man using a second language can instruct with such clarity and precision!
Extremely helpful. Thank You
Excellent video, thank you Sir! :)
This is a really good tutorial, thank you. Just the basics, I can get fancy later.
Absolutely fantastic tutorial mate, many thanks for this.
Thank you for this tutorial. Love the way you pronounce "available" to me it sounds like 'awailable'... And you are the first person I have seen who has the libraries at the bottom. )
Yeah I'm working on my pronunciation ;) If you would like to see the rest of my scenery_packs.ini file, I have a new tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/sCRkkpcz_H8/w-d-xo.html Cheers!
So well done, but still seems difficult for me. Great tutorial.
Thank you very very much for this. Very imformative and explanatory. I particularly liked the custom zoom section. Vielen dank!
xlt demonstration and explanation, tnx u so much, but the process, well, it will be easier & faster to re-paint the Sistine-Chapel in Rome than to work on all the landscape you are flying over ... & I fly 90% of the time low & slow over SoCal ........ LOL
Thanks for such an informative video! I'm just getting started making my own Ortho4XP tiles, and this video helped explain things quite well. Liked and subscribed.
Thank you for a good, easily understood tutorial. Dankeschone
Excellent primer and worked just as you described. Thanks so much for posting it.
Absolutely fantastic! Thank you!
Thanks for making this very useful tutorial. Didn’t notice you were German until you said it... ;-)
Brilliant video, and interesting stuff from Oscar too. Thank you both.
Greatest tutorial! Viele Danke!
Great video! Thanks a million. I'm going to share your video on my discord. Lots of m YT followers ask me all the time about how to get ortho4xp. Love'd the simplicity of your breakdown. Cheers Brother! I Subbed btw!
Thanks a lot bro, I'm glad you liked it :)
17:14 Mesh part.
Just a quick hop when I forget this part again xD
excellent tutorial! Excited to make my first tile now :)
Well explained and very useful. Much appreciated.
Is the best tutorial I have able to follow to create use the Ortho4xp, good job please if you have any other update please make a video I like your style of tutorial.
Very clear and complete ! Dankeschön ! ;-)
Great explanation man !!! Thank you very much !
Thanks a lot i will give it a try anyway by the sort u say in video but, iam considering of Oscar's comment because i have also HD Mesh scenery v4.
GREAT TUTORIAL! congrats and thank you
Thanks for your reply. I'm gonna go through it again as it was pretty late at night when I viewed your video.....I may well take up your offer of help again...
excellent tutorial, thx!
thanks - great tutorial and really well explained :)
Superb turtorial! Danke Dir! ;)
great job Thanks for your hard work in making this
Nice tutorial; thank you very much.
Thank you for this superb video!
Ortho4XP_v130.exe does not launch ...
great vid, it was clear, helpful, AND ACTUALLY WOKRED :) xD
Great tutorial. Thanks.
great tutorial ! Thanks
Excellent! Thank you
Bless you for all of your effort and help. And thank you for not having music on, when you're teaching us.
Hell yeah Lol! Thank you for this very helpful video. See ya!
Brilliant!
Ortho4XP is a horrible half-baked unfinished bit of code, so tutorials like this are helpful in overcoming the clunky and old-fashioned experience
Great Tuto , merci beaucoup
WHAT ABOUT EDGES OF SCENERY? Do you blend them out into default textures somehow? Any hint on that?
There's no way to blend the ortho imagery with the default scenery afaik.
Wow just spent about 30 minutes trying to get code to work and you just have to download a file. Thanks
Excellent!
ze most german tutorial zere is! gj there mate! thx for tutorial!
Kann ich auch mehrere Tiles auf einmal erstellen? Oder muss jedes erst einmal einzeln erstellt werden?
Hi! I tried to generate the river plate photoscenary in argentina/Uruguay shore but Ortho 1.3 doesn't create it because it's so large. Is there a way to create a photoscenary of a large river?? Thanks
Absolutely fantastic tutorial sir thank you, are you the same gentleman who does the Swift Vatsim tutorials?
Thanks a lot Dave! And no, I didn't do any VATSIM tutorial yet ;)
@Simulation Channel Deluxe you sound just like him lol thank you for taking the time to do the tutorial it's brilliant
@@davegrainge4579 Thanks again, even though this tutorial is really old by now. I have a more recent one, in case you're interested: th-cam.com/video/MdimKEn2C6Q/w-d-xo.html Best regards :)
@Simulation Channel Deluxe Thank you. I have watched that and it seems a lot easier to do, I have just joined your channel, now, thank you sir
Thank You / DANKE !!
I seem to have ripples in some of my runways (KSFO) even after purchasing a PLUGIN for it...
What is the cause of the ripples in runways - I see them in several places in the SF BAY AREA.
Any Idea how to cut tiles and model them so they fit better with the standard scenery? Like fluent boarders or something? I am trying to make some scenery in very rural areas and the image data is often a wild mesh. I would be totally okay with a 10x10nm airport area with same image quality.
I have the same problem another guy had
The exec version of ortho4xp v1.30 does not appear to be available anymore.
Please help, thank you.