How to install Ortho4XP for X-Plane 12 with best setting + Custom ZL regions tutorial

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How to install Ortho4XP for X-Plane 12 with best setting + Custom ZL regions tutorial | Drishal MAC2

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@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

Please also feel free to join my discord community (Linked below) and have a chat! I will also always be available if you have any issues to try and help you fix them! My discord: discord.gg/frmngUzybg

@johnposavatz 3 ай бұрын

Wow, so glad I found this video! I followed a different tutorial for Ortho4XP, and not only did it not describe the exact same steps as helpfully and completely, but it did NOT explain the fact that I do NOT need the Ortho4XP overlays IF I already have SimHeaven installed (which I do). As a result, I was very dissatisfied with the Ortho4XP overlay, gave up, and uninstalled all of my ortho completely! Now based on your video, I'm going to try again, and follow YOUR steps instead! I plan to set things up identically to yours - SimHeaven on top of Ortho4XP on top of AutoOrtho - can't wait!

@DrishalMAC2 3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind words! I'm glad the video helped :) if you have any issues please do not hesitate to ask either here or on my discord (link in description)

@ctomz. Жыл бұрын

Great video! I've followed this and the simheaven tutorial and it has completely transformed my xplane 12. Thanks very much and I look forward to seeing more!

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! X-plane is great with simheaven and Ortho. Definitely more to come. I've love to see some screenshots of you X-Plane in action! Come join my discord. The link is in the description. Again thank you very much for your kind words!

@catchymussel 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for that! I always need a refresher every now and again :)

@DrishalMAC2 2 ай бұрын

Haha yep. I find myself watching my own videos back sometimes because I've forgotten how to do something :)

@TheHenkka65 8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for a clear and easy to understand tutorial. :-) All the best for you!

@DrishalMAC2 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I very much appreciate it!

@jankin880 7 ай бұрын

Best explanation I ever saw thanks a lot

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@mfmf5168 Жыл бұрын

Thanks helped me a lot to get started with Ortho4XP !!

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helped!

@sileem Жыл бұрын

Really helped, thank you!

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

Im glad it helped! Enjoy!

@armatian 9 ай бұрын

According to documentation, scenery files are a priority-top order, so the higer they are the higher the priority, as far as i understand they should be on top.

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

That's for airport scenery. If you put Ortho4xp scenery sy the top of the scenery.ini file then all of the world buildings and airports would he missing and you would just have a flat world.

@armatian 9 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 Thanks, i wish xplane simplified these scenery upgrades, bot ms and xp still carry these old issues. IE horrible ancient cameras of msfs that give no sensation of flying at all.

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

Yeah the msfs camera system is not very good in my opinion. I much prefere the xp camera system. The scenery.ini method does make things more complex I agree. I have a video on my channel explaining how to setup the .ini file for pretty much any scenery type and also how to keep it nice and organised. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKiXq9Nyu56YeIE.html

@tiso6s523 10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!! very appreciated

@DrishalMAC2 10 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! Glad you likes it

@jochenheiden 7 күн бұрын

I want to do this for my local area. It's stuck on Europe. How do I move this to the USA?

@DrishalMAC2 7 күн бұрын

I'm not sure what you mean? Do you mean on the map when you select the tiles?

@spawningsalmon5111 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your tutorial as it helped me understand how to create my own orthos. Is there a setting where ortho4Xp will remember the location of the tiles you make? I go back later to ortho4xp and square I previously marked are gone and I have to guess where I made the tiles before. I noticed in your video ortho4xp shows where you previously made the tiles. Thanks.

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

Yes, just make sure when you open ortho4xp your base folder is set to your Custom scenery folder or wherever you are making your orthos!

@airkibris001 Жыл бұрын

thank you very much... besides like the idea to put section files (----------Airports------------) into custom scenery folder

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

Yep it really helps, I have a dedicated video on how to do it on my channel I'd you would like to watch that. Although it's very easy!

@airkibris001 Жыл бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 I did it to my custom scenery folder. really provide more comfort :), many thanks.

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

No worries mate! Happy flying!

@Ser_Xav 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for this amazing video. Although a quick question: does Auto Ortho supercede this technique? Thank you!

@DrishalMAC2 6 ай бұрын

Hi mate, I would say that Ortho4XP is better as while it does take more storage space its much higher quality and less problematic. Autoortho is great but causes stutters and can be very problematic when setting up. If you have enough storage space I would recommend Ortho4XP

@keremaktas8231 4 ай бұрын

just one question so im using sim heaven x asia if i download an asia ortho i dont have to move the overlay?

@DrishalMAC2 4 ай бұрын

Yes if you are using Simheaven then you don't need the overlays folder from ortho4xp :)

@CptJake07 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this tutorial! Would you say that this is better than Autoortho?

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

It's higher quality and you have more control over your sources and zoom levels. However it does take more time and a lot more space on your harddrive. If that's not an issue for you then this is much more stable and has 0 impact on performance. Whereas autoortho takes up a lot of cpu power.

@Luka-kc2ok 10 ай бұрын

Hi, When I try to draw more specific zoom levels on the preview it now uses lines to shape the area, can you only make one specific area a higher zoom level or can you make multiple areas with the lines? Thanks.

@DrishalMAC2 10 ай бұрын

You should be able to make multiple areas a higher zoomlevel as shown in the video.

@RayongRay 7 ай бұрын

Thanks matey. This is excellent and I am using it to cover most of Thailand or at least areas I will be flying say under 5000Ft. Now two questions. Now I have set the config file to download areas 1.5kms around airports at ZL19 and that works for new areas I now add. However I already downloaded the area covering Bangkok which has two main airports and forgot to add the ZL18 and ZL19 zones when I created this area. So my problem is I am trying to go back in and get it to add these higher res zones that I now set up, but whatever I do it just will not add them and all stay at my default ZL17. So is this possible or should I delete the area form my custom scenery folder and start again with this area?? Secondly, one of the airports I have is a pay ware add on airport VTBS from Taimodels which is excellent. So what happens for this area when the Ortho4XP tiles are added. I assume because teh new tiles are much further down the scenery_packs.ini file it just wont matter, but of course a waste of disk space.

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately you can't edit a tile already created so you'll have to delete it and do it again. Regarding the TaiModels scenery. It will use the ortho from the Scenery as its higher in the .ini. does the TaiModels scenery come with a custom mesh? If so it might stop ortho from showing so don't use the custom mesh if it does do that.

@RayongRay 7 ай бұрын

Thanks mate. But surely as I don't want the Orthor4Xp mesh to apply over the Taimodels scenery VTBS Bangkok airport but only outside or the airport scenery area, I see no mesh file for VTBS added in my scnery_packs.ini file so assume it does not have its own mesh but I cannot otherwise be sure of that. A bit of a PITA that you cannot edit to add higher res zones to an existing area. Oh well no biggy I will delete and redo it and let the config auto add the higher res ZL19 zones 1.5 kms around the airport Once again so many thanks to you for your helpful instruction video. Much appreciated.@@DrishalMAC2

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

Yep if there's no mesh for the TaiModels scenery then you should be OK. And yeah unfortunately you'll just have to redo the tile. Happy flying :)

@user-ir1ou6wk9k 7 ай бұрын

when it finishes downloading, in the zOrtho4xp file I only have a note pad. none of the other files you have.

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

Try re-extracting it from the zip file

@user-ir1ou6wk9k 7 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 I'll try that, thanks!

@user-ir1ou6wk9k 7 ай бұрын

tried to, no luck. I did the tile around faro like you did and it worked, the issue only happens when I do it around YSSY.

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

Hmm strange, which source are you using? I have had this a few times too but then it works when I try it again

@user-ir1ou6wk9k 7 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 Bing, have done multiple times with no good outcome. Will stick with auto ortho for now!

@anjinsanx44 6 ай бұрын

Should we watch n use 7:2? This iis older version

@DrishalMAC2 6 ай бұрын

I think you are getting confused between this (Ortho4XP) and AutoOrtho. This video is using the latest version of Ortho4XP

@indrawan.bernadi2302 7 ай бұрын

Saya menggunakan Ortho4XP 1.3 tetapi di kedua sisi kotak. hasilnya tidak terlalu bagus. Ada garis-garis lurus berwarna. Xplane version 12.8. bagaimana cara mengatasinya?.

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

Sorry man, I don't understand this language. I'll see if I can Google translate it once I'm home :)

@MinneapolisSpotting 8 ай бұрын

How do you install ortho with airport environment hd?

@DrishalMAC2 8 ай бұрын

Ortho4xp is completely separate to Airport environment HD. You can install Ortho4xp as normal then install Airport Environmental HD as normal. Although if your on XP12 Airport Environment HD hasn't been updated for xp12

@MinneapolisSpotting 8 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 thank you!

@tombulva 11 ай бұрын

Sorry, will these settings work if I only use XP12 in VR mode ???

@DrishalMAC2 11 ай бұрын

The settings will work for both XP12 and XP11 and should also work with VR.

@NylonStrings46 Жыл бұрын

Hi....Is Ortho4XP the same as AutoOrtho for X-Plane12????

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

Ortho4xp will download the imagery locally to your computer, therefore taking up a lot of room however it has no performance impact when flying. Its also higher quality. Autoortho streams the imagery like MSFS however it has a large performance impact and is not as detailed. You can use whichever you would like

@BourkeTommy 9 ай бұрын

Would you recommend doing this over auto ortho? Obviously it takes up a lot of space, but is it worth it?

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

Personally I do prefere Ortho4XP over AutoOrtho as its much higher quality and has much less issues. I only use AutoOrtho for areas where I don't have regular ortho installed. You can also use both together. If you want more info on this then just let me know here or on my discord

@BourkeTommy 9 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 I like the idea of getting great detail in my highly flown areas and leave it at that. I’m not the guy that will be flying cross country flights. Just quick flights in familiar areas.

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

Yep, then Ortho4XP is probably more up your street. You can also have orthos stored on an external drive if your drugging for space

@BourkeTommy 9 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 I saw that in another of your videos. Does it need to be an ssd drive or will an hhd perform fine?

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

I use a HDD and it performs fine

@smythablity9328 7 ай бұрын

How many gigabytes is ortho??

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

Depends on the area and zoomlevel (quality) you select. On average one tile of zl 17 (which is quite high) is about 5 - 7 gb Zl 16 is probably the best as a ZL 16 tile is probably only around 3gb. I use ZL17 base and then 18, 19 closer to the airport and my file sizes are about 7gb a tile. I have my orthos on a separate 1TB disk.

@breeki9000 Жыл бұрын

i didnt get an overlay folder

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

Did you check the overlays tickbox as shown in the video? And if your using simheaven you don't need the overlay folder anyway

@rajeevgupta2466 9 ай бұрын

/do we need to keep ortho4xp running whenever we run xp12

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

No, ortho4xp doesn't need to be running when you run XP12

@rajeevgupta2466 9 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 Thanks for your reply. Joined the discord group.

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

Great! Of you have any more issues then feel free to post there!

@misterhool 3 ай бұрын

Hello Ortho4XP_v130.i click on the exe file, but it doesn't open ?

@DrishalMAC2 3 ай бұрын

Have you extracted the folder from the zip?

@misterhool 3 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 yes, I've also tried all the compatibility settings, I'm using w 10 x64

@DrishalMAC2 3 ай бұрын

Try disabling any antivirus and windows defender

@misterhool 3 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 i tried it again, it didn't happen, do I need to install a utility program or plugin ?

@DrishalMAC2 3 ай бұрын

Hmm shouldn't have to, maybe try installing python? Also try running as administrator

@CRAZYHORSE19682003 Жыл бұрын

That is a lot of effort to improve the scenery in X-Plane when it is still going to look like ass compared to MSFS.

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

I agree that it's a lot of effort, but I don't think it "looks like ass". It looks very good once set up correctly. If you don't want to spend time on it then x-plane isn't for you. Msfs is probably a better option. I believe however both simulators have a place and both are great!

@heklik Жыл бұрын

Does it works on Asia ?

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

Yes, this will work all over the world as long as the sources such as Google and bing have satellite imagery for the area

@heklik Жыл бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 ok thank you.

@DrishalMAC2 Жыл бұрын

No worries!

@RayongRay 7 ай бұрын

Sorry but I detest Discord as it is always such a PITA to log into it with OTT security crap which I hate. It will not accept my login using your link as it rightly says I already have an account somewhere on Discord that uses my email. So no thanks I will converse on here fine. So I have given up on Discord totally. TBH not a fan of KZfaq either as they censor open debate.

@DrishalMAC2 7 ай бұрын

No worries, I've replied to your previous comment here :)

@A340forever 9 ай бұрын

It took 7 hours for me in total to download. I think that is not normal.

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

7 hours to download one tile? That's definitely not normal. What zl where you using and what source where you using? Also what's your Internet speed? Also disable any antivirus and windows defender because that will slow it down too

@A340forever 9 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 I was using ZL17 from Bing, i downloaded a tile around the EDDM Airport. My internet speed is 400 Mbit/s

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

Hmm OK, try and disable Windows defender and any antivirus.

@A340forever 9 ай бұрын

@@DrishalMAC2 I will try it. I don’t know if that’s relevant but, it took so long downloading missing orthophotos and converting them.

@DrishalMAC2 9 ай бұрын

Yeah that's what it should be doing, the messages you are getting are correct. It just shouldn't take that long. Where you doing anything else on the pc at the time?