UPDATED 2019 Full Tutorial with less hassle: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g8qZoK5205inZoU.html Other tutorials for Ortho4XP (extend this comment to see more): How to improve the water appearance: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbJpYLaF3-CqnnU.html How to create multiple tiles at once: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l51-g5B93J6zlac.html How to get perfect and smooth runway slopes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/htGUqs6fz5uWZZ8.html How to get sharper photoreal imagery when very close to the ground: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsyPYMKHmdm5iok.html GERMAN/DEUTSCHE Version meiner Ortho4XP Tutorials: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/asmIatFzyNamh4U.html

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.

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 !

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!

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

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!

One of the best explanation I have seen for Ortho4XP and HD Mesh. Great job!

This is the best tutorial on orthos I have found, thank you!

I have to say this is one the best tutorials that I have seen on this subject great job!

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!

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.

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.

Lucid explanation on how to get started with Ortho4XP. Thanks a lot!

Just super explanation and even in a second language! Thank you for taking the time to explain this. Very clear and pleasant presentation.

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!

the first sensible 1.30 video. thank you!

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.

Excellent video! I followed the steps and the results were amazing! Thank you for your work!

4 years later i liked subbed and turned all notis on,hope i still made ur day:)

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.

Great tutorial. Thanks for making this, it got me up and running in no time.

Thanks for taking your time to make these very insightful video's. We would be lost without them....

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.

Thank you very very much for this. Very imformative and explanatory. I particularly liked the custom zoom section. Vielen dank!

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!

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.

Excellent primer and worked just as you described. Thanks so much for posting it.

You are the best! Thanks so much for all of your extremely helpful information! 😁👏👏👏🙏🏼👍

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

Thank you so much for this advanced tut.. Would have been lost without your help.

Absolutely fantastic tutorial mate, many thanks for this.

Thank you so much for your time and effort making this video straight forward and enjoyable to follow, a great help.

Brilliant video, and interesting stuff from Oscar too. Thank you both.

Thanks for the awesome people who made all this possible including Oscar and you for the great tutorial.

This is a really good tutorial, thank you. Just the basics, I can get fancy later.

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!

Thank you so much for this, finally got it working!

Superb - best I have seen on explaining Orth4XP.

Great tutorial - This helped me make a zoom tile on my fav airport, it looks fantastic in my Cessna 172

Extremely helpful. Thank You

Can't wait to try this, when I get home. Vielen dank

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 liked the "excuse that it is in German" line. Cracked me up.

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!

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.

This is a great video and I do thank you for your contribution.

Well explained and very useful. Much appreciated.

excellent tutorial! Excited to make my first tile now :)

GREAT TUTORIAL! congrats and thank you

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...:)

Absolutely fantastic! Thank you!

Thank you, this was an excellent tutorial

Great explanation man !!! Thank you very much !

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.

Superb turtorial! Danke Dir! ;)

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.

Very clear and complete ! Dankeschön ! ;-)

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.

Excellent video, thank you Sir! :)

Thank you for a good, easily understood tutorial. Dankeschone

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!

excellent tutorial, thx!

Thank you for the info. I'm thinking of picking up X-plane and using the ortho4xp tool to give it a graphical boost.

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. )

thanks - great tutorial and really well explained :)

Greatest tutorial! Viele Danke!

Thank you for this superb video!

great job Thanks for your hard work in making this

Nice tutorial; thank you very much.

great vid, it was clear, helpful, AND ACTUALLY WOKRED :) xD

Thanks for making this very useful tutorial. Didn’t notice you were German until you said it... ;-)

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.

Great tutorial. Thanks.

Deluxe ist beinahe noch untertrieben. Super Tutorial!!! Selbst mit meinen sparsamen Englishkenntnissen habe ich fast alles verstanden. :-)

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.

great tutorial ! Thanks

Great Tuto , merci beaucoup

Excellent! Thank you

Brilliant!

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...

So well done, but still seems difficult for me. Great tutorial.

Hell yeah Lol! Thank you for this very helpful video. See ya!

Excellent!

lmao at the end you said "hell yea" at the same time as me in my head xD

Thank You / DANKE !!

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.

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

Great.Danke.

Wow just spent about 30 minutes trying to get code to work and you just have to download a file. Thanks

17:14 Mesh part. Just a quick hop when I forget this part again xD

Thx

Absolutely fantastic tutorial sir thank you, are you the same gentleman who does the Swift Vatsim tutorials?

ze most german tutorial zere is! gj there mate! thx for tutorial!

merciiiii

I did everything exactly as described in the video but the overlay process stops always at the point "-> The original DSF is a 7z archive, uncompressing...". Nothing happens afterwards. No matter whether I try the Globaly Scenery way or the HD Mesh way which are both desrcibed in the video. Any suggestions?

Hello sir, many thanks for the tutorials, following your video step by step i have successfully create a tiles with HD mesh v4 overlays with different zoom lever, but when i create next tile for another scenery after creating everything exactly someway i couldn't find different zoom level which should be in the orthophoto folder i only found base zoom B16 folder,also after cut paste overlays folder in custom scenery then make sure my ini file are in order, start sim not airport building scenery, please if you can help me on this.

Excellent video and I was with you right up to the point of using XGrinder. After extracting the dsf file, it would not allow me to drag and drop the file into the XGrinder window. I tried simply dropping the dsf file onto the XGrinder program but that didn't work either. I am using version 1.1 of XGrinder and the XPTools_Win_15-3. Any idea why I can't get XGrinder to function as it does for you?

Thanks for the clear tutorial! Very helpfull. Based on the explanation a quick question. If you have custom scenery airport from for example aerosoft, i think that don't have to create special zoom levels on airport level i guess? Thanks again!