How to get SHARPER PHOTOREAL IMAGERY | Apply Decals Tutorial [Ortho4XP|X-Plane 11]

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How to get SHARPER PHOTOREAL IMAGERY | Apply Decals Tutorial [Ortho4XP|X-Plane 11]

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5 жыл бұрын

Ortho4XP Tutorials Playlist: • Ortho4XP 1.30 Tutorials
In this quick tutorial I will show you how to get a lot more sharp and crisp photoreal imagery with 3D detail via the free Apply Decals tool. Have you ever wondered why even zoomlevel 19 imagery created with Ortho4XP is still blurry and unsharp when close to the ground? Apply Decals adds a 3D structured layer on top of the ortho imagery and that greatly enhances the quality of the textures when very close to them, like it is the case when taxiing across the airport or landing with a helo. Decals for the win!
PS: No FPS hit or increased VRAM usage.
Download the tool here: forums.x-plane...
You can learn more about decals in X-Plane here: developer.x-pl...
Check out my complete Ortho4XP 1.30 tutorial here: • Ortho4XP 1.30 | Comple...
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XP11 graphics settings: Visual Effects: High (HDR) | Texture Quality: High | Anti Aliasing: 2x SSAA + FXAA | World Objects: High | Reflections: Minimum | Draw shadows on scenery: Off
PC Specs:
Intel Core i5-4690K OC @ 4.4GHz
Scythe Kotetsu CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Xtreme Gaming 4GB VRAM
ASUS Z97-K Mainboard
24GB DDR3-1600 RAM
Thermaltake Hamburg 530W Power Supply
1x SanDisk Ultra 3D SSD 500GB (System Drive)
1x Western Digital Blue 3D NAND SSD 500GB (X-Plane 11 Drive)
2x Western Digital Blue HDD 1TB
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

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@jakobheiter355 3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for!!! Especially when flying and landing helicopters it can be very hard to assess the hight of the helicopter... This simple tip solves the issue! Thank you!

@DavidKing-ph8or 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Thanks mate. I'm going to do this to all my tiles now. Keep up the good work, love your channel

@rondeldebbio9219 3 жыл бұрын

Great explanation and tutorial. Clear, well thought out, above and beyond.

@joevarco950 4 жыл бұрын

I'm embarrassed to admit I spent a lot of time trying to reverse engineer decals. I even went as far as inventing my own version, which tanked. I just naturally assumed the professionals were using their own tools. What a great tool! Wonderful tutorial as always. TY

@piloto_loco 4 жыл бұрын

for anyone wondering about runway design: you can apply decals to draped polygons too. lay the polygon over your runway and you have a "stony" kind of surface. for decaling polygons you don't need the tool, simply add the decal file to your polygon (.pol) in its text editing format. So you have the texture info on first line and on next line the decal info.

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 4 жыл бұрын

That's a good hint, thanks mate!

@henryluebberstedt7819 5 жыл бұрын

Wie geil ist das denn! Da stand ich gestern auf meinem selbstgebauten Flugplatz, den ich Dank Deiner Hilfe mit OrthoXP aufgehübscht hatte, und dachte: Von oben perfekt, aber in Bodenhöhe... Und nun kommst Du mit der Lösung um die Ecke. Also ohne Jan Vogel und Dich hätte ich mit X-Plane nicht mal halb soviel Freude. Top!

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 5 жыл бұрын

Haha was ein Zufall ;) Wie gesagt habe ich diese Möglichkeit selbst erst vor ein paar Tagen entdeckt und die Resultate sind besser als ich gedacht hatte. Freut mich, dass ich helfen konnte :)

@FlightSimmerX-Plane 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this important information.

@juliang8042 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for bringing us the topic if decals in our minds. Keep doing this great job for the community. I liked the simple idea of editing the .ter files, so I started some research on wirting batch files. My purpose was to edit all .ter files in the tiles folder of ortho4xp. I managed to wirte a batch but failed to run the batch on multiple directories in windows. But there is such a simple way: just use notepad++ as a text editor and use the search and replace function. You can do the replacement over a defined directory with all subfolders in it. So search "TERRAIN" and replace with "TERRAIN DECAL_LIB/....dcl" and use "*.ter" in the filter function to only search and replace in this files. My PC has done this job for about 100.000 files in 10minutes or so. If everybody has experience with changing the command "NO_SHADOW" to "SHADOW" in the .ter file please share. Thanks

@Jimbo-in-Thailand 5 жыл бұрын

Great tip... THANKS!

@simpilotadamt1012 5 жыл бұрын

This is what I need. Danke.

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Adam and thanks for watching :)

@spcornelissen 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this vid - I have played with a similar tool, but this one is much better. I'm using the XP decal library files for scenery designs I am busy with, but sometimes I feel the decals just does not fit certain scenery. I wish I could realy understand the art side of creating my own decals.

@simpilotadamt1012 5 жыл бұрын

What's the tool?

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 5 жыл бұрын

Cool, I'm glad the video helped you :)

@FabFourable 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the tutorial. However - applying this tool I don't see any difference. The "decal"-setting is listed in the *.ter-file but the grass looks the same as in the default tile made by Ortho4xp.

@tenvelli 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@VacMaster1991 5 жыл бұрын

You are a god! Thank your for sharing this!

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 5 жыл бұрын

Wow you make me blush lol ;)

@litodaco9160 Жыл бұрын

Awsome textutres !! Thanks a lot!!

@reedchrisj 4 жыл бұрын

Hi there, loving all your Xplane tutorials, keep up the fantastic work. I have a load of ortho4xp tiles (all of Europe) made about a year ago with v120b, but don't know how to transfer this into v130 without starting from scratch. Have you thought about a short step-by-step tutorial on how to update/migrate existing ortho to a new version of Ortho4XP (incl symlinks), it would be a life-saver here.

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! As v130 introduced many new features, unfortunately it isn't too easy to convert existing v120 tiles. Also I don't have v120 installed anymore, so I'm afraid there won't be a tutorial coming for that. I recreated all tiles when I switched to the new version, to get all the great features like sloped runways. It should be possible to reuse your downloaded photoreal textures though. Regards

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 4 жыл бұрын

@@reedchrisj Yes the overlays in the "All in one" step would be a help. But you can also either restart the program after the "All in one" so that all new tiles get marked on the map, or you can also do the complete proces via "batch build" by also checking the OSM, Mesh, Masks and Imagery steps. Cheers

@laminak1173 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting ! Does it increase the size of the tiles (disk space) ?

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 11 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly this tool only adds some lines of text to already very small files (the ortho image files don't get altered), so the space increase is negligible.

@LWJCarroll 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting thanks and also your PC specs and graphics setting. Also that you have XPlane on its own ssd, something I have thought of doing myself....as you can and it frees up space on the system drive.... Laurie

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah just recently I purchased a new SSD for XP11, before it was running on a normal HDD and the loading times and stutters were horrible. Definitely helped a lot.

@MrVovav1 5 жыл бұрын

cool.. thank you

@v1rotate815 4 жыл бұрын

Wow fantastic! Is it possible to select multiple terrain files? Or is it only one by one?

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 4 жыл бұрын

Do you mean the possibility to do that process for several Ortho4XP tiles at once? Then unfortunately the answer is no, every tile has to be edited individually. Even though I think there is a Python script available somewhere, that allows you to do that. But I didn't try it out yet.

@rogermoore52 5 жыл бұрын

if I select more than about 20 files the app crashes for me

@laminak1173 10 ай бұрын

It doesnt crash in my situation, after selecting all the files the app seems to be calculating something during 1 or 2 minutes, just wait then you can click on "apply" and it takes less than 1 minute

@effem65 5 жыл бұрын

Super! Danke.

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 5 жыл бұрын

Gern geschehen ;) Wie geht's effem? War gut zu hören, dass die Sache mit der Donation soweit geklappt hat. Ich hoffe dich beim nächsten Livestream wieder begrüßen zu können :)

@effem65 5 жыл бұрын

@@SimulationChannelDeluxe Jo, alles wieder ok, klar werde ich dabei sein, wenn ich Zeit habe. Versuche gerade die color correction bei ganzen .dds files, hier sind ja vor allem die Go2´s betroffen. Deine vids sind echt Gold wert.

@rogermoore52 5 жыл бұрын

have you tried "use_decal_on_terrain=True" in Ortho4XP

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 5 жыл бұрын

No I didn't try that out yet, but it may do pretty much the same thing, even though you don't have the choice which decal to use. But if the ApplyDecals app is crashing for you, maybe you should try out that option. Cheers

@janithawikramasinghe6777 6 ай бұрын

hey does this work woth p3d?

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 6 ай бұрын

I'm sure that won't work...

@MrKreidel 5 жыл бұрын

Do decal'ed sceneries cost performance? Or are they "for free"

@LWJCarroll 5 жыл бұрын

See his "PS" under description.....

@VacMaster1991 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Simulation Channel Deluxe. I just saw that Ortho4XP 1.30 has a built in decal applier. Just click it on in your config and Ortho will automatically apply amazing decals to every tile your create. Try it out. 1.30 removes the extra step of applying decals with another software. Look at my pic here, imgur.com/gallery/qxf6vgj

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 4 жыл бұрын

Yes you're right, thanks for pointing that out and also for the pic provided. I've never seen that setting before lol. One advantage of the Apply Decals tool though is the possibility to select the type of decal to apply. Cheers

@VacMaster1991 4 жыл бұрын

@@SimulationChannelDeluxe. The issue I have with apply decals, is that if I try to apply decals to a zl17 or 18 tile. I have to do it in multiple parts because the decals software crashed if you try more than 500 terr files at once

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 4 жыл бұрын

@@VacMaster1991 Oh okay, that's unfortunate. I think that I've had several tiles with more than 500 files, over 700 even iirc. But I think from now on I will also use the setting in O4XP as it saves some time :)

@VacMaster1991 4 жыл бұрын

@@SimulationChannelDeluxe. It is nice that they include a decal software with Ortho4xp 1.30. It saves so much time. Plus they look amazing

@SimulationChannelDeluxe 4 жыл бұрын

@@VacMaster1991 I like the look of the "Grass and stony dirt 1" decals a bit more, but still with the O4XP decals we save lots of time. I might do a video of my updated O4XP settings soon. Cheers