Here is an updated video for installing and using Ortho4XP kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbOhfJSqsbbadmQ.html

For those having problems with the overlay folder! If you create say 2 tiles.... once they are created and downloaded and stuff...... go to the map view.... click on ONE of your tiles, then go back to the main screen, then click on "build overlay" at the bottom. i did it for all downloaded tiles, THEN the "overlay" folder was HUGE compared to before... then it also worked. the textures work AND the autogen scenery..... and uhm... its mind blowing! thanks a gazillion for this tutorial!

You have just changed my simming experience completely. For a 60 year old who has tried following other youtube instructions I found yours so easy to follow. Thank you.

Thank you for this great tutorial! One important note - reference autogen and global scenery step (mentioned at 10:18). If you installed the X-Plane Demo then upgraded to the full version some of your global scenery (western Washington state) is in the "Global Scenery\X-Plane 11 Demo Areas" folder rather than the main "Global Scenery\X-Plane 11 Global Scenery" folder. This will result in Ortho4xp generating the error "failure : there is no file to sniff from at the indicated place." and the autogen and roads will be missing in western Washington You will need to copy or move these files to the corresponding folder in "X-Plane 11 Global Scenery" folder as the X-Plane installer will not re-download these files since it thinks they are already a part of your installation.

Thanks for all your efforts. I like your humility in admitting not being a computer "geek", makes it easier to watch. Thanks again.

Fantastic Video. i tried Ortho4XP before but couldn't get it to work, all sorts of strange anomalies. But after following your steps, what a revelation. Did it on my home town of Canberra, Australia and it looks fantastic on the night flight like your really there. Going to see how the day flight looks. Great work thanks so much for your tutorial.

Finally, a clear and understandable tutorial. Thank you for educating me on how to use such beautiful scenery! Cheers and enjoy clear skies!

Finally after going through 4 or 5 videos. It's so nice to see someone who knows how to turn up their volume and speak into the microphone so you can hear them. Good job. Thanks for the tut.

Important step- you need to start Xplane once then quit. This will rebuild the scenery config file and you can then edit the ortho scenery lines.

Favourite video - You are the only youtuber i have found that explains it and takes you through it for a noob like me. So helpful after spending AGES looking for tutorials that doesn't skip anything, I love the thoroughness of it and the outcome was amazing in Genoa. Which it inspired me to make my first XP11 video!!

Finally someone who has explained ortho4xp in a way that can be understood. Great video ,thanks

Yep, instead of using OSM - Use Bing or GO2. OSM was the most reliable source when I recorded this video but not anymore....

Incredible, concise, articulate description of the Ortho4XP usage. Great job, and sincerest thanks!

One absolutely crucial bit of information you left out is to click "build overlay" after selecting the custom overlay directory. If you don't click "build overlay" it doesn't create an overlay folder in Ortho4xp

FYI everyone: I tried to use Bing per Luna's instructions and when I went to download it still kept getting OSM servers busy messages. So I restarted and tried again and it looked at Bing instead. So it may be you have to restart the program after you change the source of tiles that you are trying to point it at. Luna- fantastic video and a gamechanger for X-plane for sure.

Great video! I'm new to flight sims and was really having a hard time deciding to either go with Free stuff or Payed. This has helped me in getting new contact and making the sim way more fun and not breaking the bank. I thank you sir.

What a perfect video. I was frustrated with no instructions with ortho4xp then I found this. Thank you

Thank you! Your video is the only one that has helped. I tried using Ortho4XP 1.3 and went back to the previous version just so I could use your tutorial.

Love it! "Ok Chaps, those is really really simple" then goes straight into techno world, variables, DOS CMD prompted, Satellite imagery sources, capacity planning etc ;-) Kidding. Thanks Fella

Wow.. I don't know what to say.. what an awesome tutorial. Finally explained without the jargon. always wanted Tiles for Xplane but could never understand it.... And now it makes sense.. Many thanks.

out of all the tutorials this is the best explanation ever.

Thank you so much..i'm a new convert to X-Plane from FSX...amazing!...and your instructions are easily understood...

A man of your word and you never broke your promise from yesterday. Thanks for this I will lodge it in my memory for when I upgrade from XP10.

Thank you man, I've been afraid of Ortho since I've been apart of the Sim Community. Paid a lot for my Rig, and did not want to screw things up. Great video and hopefully you can release the High Details around Airports. Cheers, my Dude!

Just a note, OSM does not grab orthophotos (at least not for every spot of the world), it is vector data... So you need to pick a satellite imagery provider instead from that list...

Awesome vid and tutorial, Luna! I'm currently building a PC strictly for XP11/FSX, and your videos are getting me hella hyped for when I finally dive into the XP11 world. Keep up the awesomeness, mate!

If you want to know what the tiles look like before you wait the 2 hours you can go to the Orthophotos folder in your Ortho4xp folder to look at the jpegs once you see the program started downloading them. If they turn out just blue or something else weird, just quit and try some other base source.

Did he say increase the Frame Rate? Awesome! Great video! Really made it clear for me to understand! Cheers

Really like your calm voice. Great for tutorials! Keep up

Finally, in plain english. Thank you so much.

Melhor explicação que vi até agora, objetiva e completa, uma outra pessoa levou 4 vídeos para explicar o que você fez muito rapidamente! Obrigado!

My god I wish I just listened to your video to begin with. I ended up with a headache after watching the original video. Thanks!

Hey, great video. You won't believe me but I have been battling with ortho4xp all day long today since this morning.It just wasn't working after watching some other video's and trying to get the python non-executable working. In your video you gave me a few ideas on what to check and. OMG, when Jernsey popped up on Level 19 )(! - quite quick to dowload also), my eyes popped as well. Thanks ! (BTW, Nice to see you're still loving the glider business :P)

Thank you for making this video... I am totally new to X-Plane, purchased a Windows Mixed Reality headset and just discovered with Ortho's are, and this video has been extremely helpful!! :)

This is extremely helpful! Thank you for taking the time to explain the process! Looks amazing

Brilliant tutorial. I had browsed one or two previously and thought the process seemed to complex to bother but you make the process very simple to follow. Thank you. But I have a problem. Building the tile stops at "Recycling OSM data for way["natural"="water"]["tidal"!="yes"]".

You have a wonderful voice. Sort of like a mix between David Warner and Alan Rickman. Do some audiobooks!!!

I tried creating two tiles over the Coachella Valley in California...I did everything according to this video. It did something but I did not get a good result when I fired up x-Plane 11.50. A lot of green textures, not good at all...no way was it like Austria! The mountains look like sand piles and Mt. San Jacinto has a weird off colored green texture. I took some screenshots but I see there is no facility here for forwarding them. Enjoyed your video though!

brilliant stuff... very helpful. I'll give this a go now as I thought the whole thing sounded very complicated. Thanks :)

Thank you SO much sir! Was dreading this, you made me try it and I am awaiting my first bathes to finish! :) Subbed!

Very good! Nice, simple and clear.... thanks again!

Super useful tutorial ! Keep going the good work !

Awesome, so easy.. I was using ortho with hd mesh and another site and it was complicated. Didn't know you can do it with just ortho4xp, thanks!! ;D

Great video, going to try this tonight! Thank you for the guide.

can you please make an updated version of this video? Because I can't find any more besides this one.

Hi Luna, I've been watching the above video tutorial re Ortho4XP and found it very helpful as I have just started using it. However, there are a couple of points I feel need passing on to you. 1. If you are running a system that has Norton Internet Security installed it won't let you run Ortho4XP. As soon as you fire Ortho up Norton will remove the main application file and quarantine it. There are also other files within the Ortho package that it will remove. The only solution is to go into the Norton settings and set up an exclude from all scans for the Ortho4XP folder AND ALL Files within that folder. I feel that this needs to be pointed out in your video. ". When I first used Ortho4XP last night I followed your instructions and selected OSM as the source. This morning I found that the process of building the 2 tiles of the Brighton to Heathrow areas I wanted had failed. This was due to 'timeout' errors. Tried again this morning and the same thing happened. Tried a third time, but this time I selected BI as the source and it worked perfectly. This evening I made 8 tiles of the whole of the Swiss alps in just over 3 hours! The resulting scenery looks superb! I hope you don't mind me letting you know of these points. by the way, your videos are very good, I watched a lot of them before getting the X-Plane 11 beta. The videos convinced me that X-Plane 11 is incredibly good. Regards. Derek Sanders, Henfield W Sussex

What should I do to prevent the destruction of buildings and trees?

Ignore what the instructions say about not needing GIMP. The python code to replace GIMP does not seem to work at all. Just install GIMP, and point the config file to where the gimp console executable is located. Also copy the blurX to gimp's scripts folder (find gimp, the search for .scm files)

took me 4 days 17 mins 56 sec's to set up the whole world

That was a fantastic tutorial. Thank you very much and regards from Iceland

Great video but for future ones can you use the chase or outside camera instead of the cockpit view

You my friend, are a living legend

Just tried my first two tiles, amazing, thanks very much for the guide, I found that turning the objects all the way down made it look more realistic, they need more settings so you can keep the roads but not display the buildings, etc. One question, do you need to replace the overlay file when you add more tiles or do you add a new overlay file?

Great job on making a previously confusing process clear. Any idea why I just get water when using GO2 as my map? ARC is the best but the ground colour changes. I'm in Alberta, Canada

HTTPConnectionPool(host='b.tile.openstreetmap.org', port=80): Read timed out. (read timeout=10) We will try again in 3 sec... i've been getting this error for 10 minutes now. is that normal?

That looks cool, il have to keep that in mind for when i upgrade to a computer that can run X-Plane.

Very informative Luna thanks. I'm definitely going to download the Emerald Isle and look forward to seeing how that's covered. One thing I couldn't figure out is if auto generated road traffic still works. When you switched to night view, I could see the lights from traffic, but in daylight I couldn't see any road traffic at all. Does the Ortho4XP scenery cover it? Does the Ortho4XP scenery line up exactly with the default roads? Just curious. Still worth downloading but I couldn't make out this in your video.

Forgot to add you need to run X-plane to update the scenery_packs.ini with the new tile folders, or you could edit the file manually, easier to run X-Plane then do the edits in the ini file

Thanks for this great tutorial! I followed your steps and got myself up and running with ortho scenery for my area. The only issue is that it seems to have put the entire area under water. I see the satellite imagery as the texture on the ground surface, but it's covered entirely by water ripples and reflections and looks slightly discolored from the water effect. Any idea what I might have done wrong? Thanks!

Thanks for the great tutorial! However, I am stuck on Step 2: Building mesh. It never proceeds past downloading the elevation file. The viewfinderpanorama site is not responding via browser either. Is there anyway to work around this?

Really nice you don't know how drab and ordinary Australia is especially around YIVL in XPXI at least now I have landmarks, and I know where I am for excellent VFR

Superb instructional video many thanks, do you have to overwrite the overlays folder each time you add a new area (scenery tiles)?

When I launch X-plane and load the plane up on my scenery, the game comes up with an error message in the loading screen saying it can't locate the terrain files. I'd like to point out that I used "BI" to generate the terrain. When I copied the files over to the custom scenery folder, the config files had no listing of the ortho scenery, so I manually added them in in the correct order by typing the file path as the others are written. Any ideas what that is?

Excellent sir. Thank you for that another GREAT tutorial 👍

Thanks for the video - I have followed this step by step and all goes fine except for the last part where you reorder the listing in notepad. I do not see the tiles listed on notepad despite everything being copied over as you mentioned into the scenery folder. Grateful for any help.

Great help to install this thing Luna. Ive come to the conclusion that its not Worth the time and HDD space. Tryed 17 and 18 and the space required in enormous and the look is not that incredible. Two sectors in 18 is about 75 gig and take around 6 hours to download in 100mb speed broadband. Often theres part/clusters missing in some smaller places wich is annoying.

Thanks for the tutorial! The only issue i have is that the real runway and the rest of the airport objects are few meters above the ground texture. I assume it's something related to the order in the scenery file.

Hi,great Straight forward video it worked a treat ,could you do one on adding third-party scenery like w2xp as I'm having some difficulty seeing any building .

HELP PLEASE! I followed your tutorial and have indeed got the new scenery BUT everything is flat - no 3D airports or autogen - can you please suggest what I need to do to correct my error. Otherwise a very heplful and clear video Thank you.

Thank you so much followed this step by step and worked brilliantly thank you

My favourite video on account of it being so useful and helpful :) Good luck to everyone in the giveaway :)

Thanks Luna, good video. Been looking for how to improve XP visuals. Will Ortho4XP work with VR?

New to xp and this video was the best found for tutorial of ortho4xp. One question, after I have created a tile and then go back to the app to create a new one, do I need to re-create the overlays ?? I guess it would be yes, and then I should overwrite the y_Ortho4XP_Overlays folder ??

Thanks for the video. I let Ortho overnight create just 1 title. When I woke up it wasnt finish yet. Getting a message Read time out.

Great video and well explained. Just a heads up I tried to download from base source CZ and got all blank white tiles. Just a heads up to anyone else.

Thanks for taking the time, great vid!

Thanks to you, I got this working. Very good video.

Great video, thank you. It worked so well for me that I installed about thirty tiles. No loading a flight takes about 7 minutes. Is there a way around that? Best, Ab

How about a update video for ortho4xp 1.30?

I cant find Orthoxp overlay? Could I have some help?

Great tutorial for the layman. Thanks !!

Just want to thank you for this vid. Helps out alot.

Hi Luna, many thanks for this video, very helpful. I am currently generating a level 17 zoom for the Eastbourne tile! In regards to your new series of flying the length of the UK, have you generated all tiles for the British Isles for this? I think I may need a bigger hard drive very soon!!!

It would be cool to see a way to fly with the ground of google earth! Good video by way! ;)

Hello sir, I have made all the steps and all are done fine. i have pasted the overlay and tiles into custom scenery, but when I open scenery packs there is nothing about ortho4xp in that ? What's wrong

Hey bro great video, thanks a lot. Dunno if u mentioned in the comments, but I know u did talk abt it in the video. Do u have any videos abt making around airport more detailed? Tnx in advance bro.

All mountains get cut off for me, overlays are on

Hey, Luna. Ortho is not so complicated really, but you do have to grasp a good understanding of how it works. I realize that your vid is just basic, and truely its good, but not really detailed enough. For example, you do have to tick the build complex masks and it is recommended, by the manual, the masks for inland. Secondlly building your overlays custom is a way to hold down the overall file size while giving super rich detail, great for mountains and coasts. I build the complete tile at ZL 17 and then go to Custom and set specific ZL zones for the areas of greater detail, coastlines at ZL 18 and my Airports at ZL 19. This type of set up doens´t hit FPS hard and the size is generally between 7-10 GB. Tiles with more water then land are smaller at high ZL, while all land and Mountains tend to crank up the Gb if you do not set the proper zoom. Most of the tutorials here are total trash, but a few, yours included are informative. Q8, has a few that are good too.

Can you please tell me how to improve the level of details at the airport area as you said at the ending of the video?

Thanks, great tutorial. Greatly appreciated.

Your video is the BEST!

Very nice tutorial! However, my airports won't show up, even when the tile is below global airports and the overlay is above them....what do I do? :(

When I created my tile and copied it over and went to the Scenery packs file , there was no scenery Pack for my new tile

Thanks for the well explained video! I've follow the steps, did everything as you did but when loading the area in X-Plane 11 I got an error saying... Could not locate image file for terrain, press understood button and XPL shuts down, any idea? Thanks!

I have used your method with good results

Awesome video mate :-)

Very good. Thanks a lot, mate :)

What can I do I did everything according to the video and after the DSF/Mask progress bar is loaded up i just get notes on the side saying HTTPConectionPool and all that stuff has read time out and will try again in a few sec. And that pops up over and over

l was impressed by the results of satellite imagery used in X plane ,but dared not experiment with it untill I stumbelled on this video... right now I have created a lot of tiles with Ortho4 xP in my Europe scenery and everything looks great...now here comes my question: I created a new X plane folder to represent the Hawaii islands and all of a sudden creating overlays doesn t work anymore ...all the time I get this message: creating overlay faillure because there is no file to "sniff " from ,meanwhile the X plane 11 global scenery is in the folder and all the nav data are there....I cannot figure it out ..maybe you can help. .....thank you so much ...grts from Amsterdam

Hi luna's world, followed your steps and my terrain is all messed up. airports are on top of huge plateaus and there's water where it isnt supposed to be. Using v1.20b with Bing on a ZL16, thanks