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.

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".

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.

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

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!

Thanks for this, very helpful and just what I've been looking for. I lived in Queenstown and worked up that mountain (The Remarkables, used as the template for mount doom in LOTR) you highlight as a ski lifty and wanted to fly the area more realistically and this fits the bill beautifully.

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

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

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..

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 !!

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

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!

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.

Extremely detailed but simple to follow. Great tutorial

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

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!

Excellent video Wayne, thanks buddy!

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.

Awesome job explaining! Best Ortho tutorial I have seen

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 :)

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

Great video bruh. Easily explained and easily understood.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Thanks for this great guide.

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

Oh btw, thanks for the video. I did'nt know there was a new version of ortho 4xp.

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

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

You're a lifesaver. Thank you so much!

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.

You just got a new subscriber! Thanks for the help :)

Thankyou so much Luna. Awesome. :)

Very helpful. Thank you.

Great tutorial, thanks mate!

Thank you very much. Very helpful.

Really helpful video. Thanks very much!

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.

thanks for a great explination

Hello and thank you for this useful tutorial !! ;)

directly to the point. Super easy to understand, Thank you for putting the time to make this video.

Amazing video I just downloaded 11 tiles for the uk at zoom level 17

+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!

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

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.

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

this was helpful I had to re install o my xplane and I had forgot how to do ortho tiles

thanks for the video !!

Still incredibly helpful!

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 :).

Great video

i´m Looking for that to long time. thanks

Again a very good even excellent tutorial for use of 1.30, just have to say that to get the 1.30 application available you MUST do some python programming yourself which is somehow quite abrupt for non expert, although a very nice and excellent tutorial indeed , thank you very much

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

THANK YOU SO MUCH I was literally struggling to death to get these overlays hahah:))

fantastic, thanks!

Damn mine only took 22m38s to download.. Guess I have a fast PC? Thanks for the tutorial, it really helped! I did the exact scenery you did just to make sure I didnt mess it up.

thank you sir!

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

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.

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!

Thank You

Thanks! 😉☕

Thanks!

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

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

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.

I have been looking hard at this for some time! First off, great video. How do you notice FPS changes with or without Ortho? Some people say they get an increase, while other say the opposite. What is your experience with that?

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

Thanks so much, finally the Muskegon river is seen in my hometown (Big Rapids, MI) flying over. But now I'm wondering, why did my airport buildings vanish? Anyway, you have a great teaching/presentation style!

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

Followed the video, very well done I must say! I'm having an issue though. When I try to move the ortho overlays folder I get an error message stating "Invalid MS-DOS Function" +29+047.dsf and it gives me Try Again Skip and Cancel. Nothing works and when I check the folder in custom scenery well, that file never made it's way in there. Suggestions, recommendations?

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

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?

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?

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.

Is the file structure the same? E.g. If I made shortcuts to the "Tiles" folder in the Custom Scenery, can I just move the old Tiles folder from 1.2 to 1.3 and it will work from that? Also.. ZL 19 is gone from 1.2?

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.

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

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

i have tried this 6 times and this still doesn't work. i used version 1.30 ortho. idk what to do. im thinking of replacing the original xplane ortho with orthoxp directly. bad idea?

SP-30 ROCKS!!!

If you do 2 tiles do you need to edit the scenery text file for each one every time or not?

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

Hello! When I tried this everything went well, but when the overlay was loading it finished with an error, and no overlay was created. Only the tiles. Any help? Is the overlay absolutely necessary?

Great explanation! Thank you! What plane is that? :)

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