I have had plans about doing this tutorial for ages but have been busy with other videos :-) Seems I don't need to make one after all :-D Thanks for making it Osamah ;-)

Thank you so much for your class. A big hug from your student, in Brazil.

I can't thank you enough for making this very informative video! What a glorious new X-Plane world!

great job Osamah and thumbs up for the one who designed this software

I tried Ortho4XP on an area in Jamaica but the texture came out rather washed out in color. Not sure what went wrong. I did like the fps gain i got from flying over it though.

Anyone else having a problem after all this installation, that when you try to load up an aircraft at the airport, it writes “Error, could not locate image file for terrain” and simply shuts down whole X Plane? Or does anyone have any possible solutions? Thanks

This turned into my project for today. Thanks as always for outstanding content!

Look at the thumbnail: cool, I’ll try it after watching the process: Never mind……

Corrr i bet everyone's now sweating it out in the Ortho4xp.exe, good luck! Thanks for the video Osamah! :)

Osamah, this is an excellent video that I always link to people that are new to Ortho. I have one suggestion that could improve it: when you show us how to 'Batch build' (around 8:30), could you add an annotation that the tile generation progress will be displayed on the main UI window, and you can close the 'batch build' map view without stopping the process? I used your video to learn Ortho, and when generating tiles I sat staring at the map screen after pressing 'batch build'. I was expecting to see some sort of confirmation and was too afraid to close the window, thinking it would exit me out of the ortho program entirely.

If you edit the config file you can define what your Custom Scenery path is (allowing the right click automatic transfer) and the sniff directory (path to XPlanes's default Global Scenery) so it appears automatically in the Overlay window Belize Step 3. I've been using this all week hence why I believe that mentioning editing the Config file is required.

Thanks for this video, your videos are always helpful. I Watched another video of yours titled Global Earth. This program has not worked with Ortho4XP, it has taken over. I have over 5 terabits of Ortho and non of it shows up, except for US. Do you know a solution or how to uninstall the product. Any ideas would be appreciated I have tried all my tricks to no success. Thanks

Nice video but you missed the automatic transfer of tiles to the custom scenery & the editing of the config file!

Great tutorial. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing the video. I need to ask, whenever I try to create tiles by using batch build option, I am getting an error "OSM server was busy, new tentative...". I am Stuck here, any sort of help would be appreciated. Thanks

I run the program but I have a problem with the Elevation data. As you can see from the screen shot below, Min and Max altitude is at 0.0. Loading elevation data and smoothing it over airports. Downloading ..\Elevation_data\+30-110\N39W105_NED13.img from USGS. * Min altitude: 0.0 , Max altitude: 0.0 , Mean: 0.0 Causes some pretty funny images when flying. I have a scenery pack for KAPA in Denver which is at 5880'. When I take off, I fly a mile or two into the other scenery which is 5880' BELOW ME..... Or, if I take off from an airport in the scenery, then the airport pack shows like a MESA 5880' above. It's a virtical wall up to that airport. Any Help on why I'm not getting the elevations in my files?

Great tutorial. Everything went well except one of the two tiles I downloaded for the San Diego area had inconsistent rectangular shaped areas in it. Resolution was consistent but colour was not. Read below that sometimes Bing maps can be at fault. Would not have known map source BI stood for Bing. What do the others stand for so I can preview them before downloading them. Heard Google map tiles are no longer available to download.

Also the automatically created symbolic link to the actual tile stays in the ortho4xp folder & is pointed at by the Custom Scenery folder. Only the Overlays need to be copied across.

Thanks Osamah, very nice tutorial as always.

Great tutorial! Trying it out now.

I have a few questions. First, which Python? There are two, and sometimes it's important to have the right one. Second, If I wanted to do an entire state in the USA, but a smaller one like South Carolina, how much drive space would I need to make really good detailed tiles. Lastly, I hear a lot of people use Bing maps, but Google Earth seems to be a lot better graphically, and sharper. Have you seen it produced with both maps, and which do you think is better?

Hiya Osamah Friend, Well well well For the past week i've been trying to get to grips with doing this I followed a few guides to the letter, only to find one didn't mention altering the cfg, the other forgot to mention he'd missed a step out !! So, i saw you'd done this (time/pain/life stuff, has still got me playing catch-up on yours and others vids) And to my delight, again, a concise perfect tut :-) Thankyou As always Take Care Have Fun Tony

Very good and easy to understand video, thank you. Now, I have done to the letter, what you have explained, but for some reason, the overlay and tiles, I created, cannot be found in the "scenery_patch.ini. Question is now...what have I perhaps done wrong? Regards Bjarne

HI, Thank you for your video. I have created everything, but I don't get the underlays folder. I have 2 tiles from the Dublin area and I think it does work well. The only thing missing is the underlay folder. could you elaborate a bit...…. thank you

Thanks for the help, I built my first tile and it looks great! However, I notice that the HD Mesh roads, buildings, trees, etc. are sitting ON TOP of the photo-realistic Ortho4XP scenery. As a result, the HD Mesh objects are actually adding objects where they don't actually exist in real life. To remove these objects, do I simply remove the xOrtho4XP_overlays folder, or better yet, re-order it to the very bottom of my scenery_packs.ini file?

I followed this and did an area around the grand canyon, but when i loaded it up it was all just a grainy blue texture! What happened?

Hello...I love your channel...great videos and helpful information. From your tutorial I have been able to build large portions of Louisiana, USA with ortho4xp. I use viewpanorama for elevation, alpilotx hd mesh and 17 resolution. The scenery looks great except for one thing...they all look washed out ...all the details are there but the colors are all faded. Is there anything inortho4xp or x-plane renderings that can help. ( I have been flying with clear skies daytime settings...so maybe the sun is too bright??) Thanks again

Great explanation, as always, Osamah. Thank you. Now I need to rebuild terabytes worth of ortho using this app. The lack of water masks in G2XPL always left me a little disappointed. Speaking of which, is there a way to use the tiles I have already and have Ortho4XP reprocess the exiting images? Or does it all have to be downloaded again?

Sorry I was wondering and meant do you use ortho4xp at all or do you just use what scenery comes with X-Plane 11?

Good video,thank you for your help ! how can i fix the roads or highways because they are not aligned properly the curves looks like 90 degrees or like square.

What and where did you get those "ACO" buttons mod on the left of your XP screen?

Thank you so much for your solid info, much appreciating the effort you are puting into your videos, I have finally figured out the process, so once again much thanks..... Can you tell me?, can I delete the Ortho tile file download from Ortho4xp once I have copied it to XP11, or does the file have to be loaded on both softwares to work ?... I'm not at all computer savvy, (although I have learned a lot in the last few weeks), but I'm guessing a 10GB file downloaded on Ortho and the copied to XP11, will take up total of 20GB.... is this correct ?, or does the computer use on of the files and work both systems from that one ?

What if I download this Ortho4XP tiles using "Global Scenery path for Overleys" and then later decided to download the HD mesh are for the same area... can i do that or do I have to again download Ortho4XP tiles after downloading HD mesh ?

"No elevation file found, I download it from viewfinderpanorama (J. de Ferranti)" Nothing happens after that. It says it twice then nothing happens ;-;

I can't find my overlays nor my texture folder in scenery_packs 10:30 (using x-plane 11 btw)

Can I ask how you managed to takeaway the constant white haze that X-Plane has? No matter where I fly it always disappointingly has the white haze.

Hi there Osamah! Just wanted to ask about Ortho4xp! With batching files, does that keep also use your custom water blending data? and how do you set water blending up? Thanks you :)

Nice mountains

The qualty between zoom level 16 and 17 is minimal but the tile size is almost double

Hi osama, quick question. After I copied the scenery into my custom scenery folder and the overlay folder as well they are not showing up in the ini file!! Any suggestions! I'm using X-Plane 10 btw. Thanks a million

Looks fantastic. Though would it be wise to do this for a whole continent such as North America or would that cause issues performance wise(File size isn't really an issue for me)?

Great video! thanks

By selecting Custom build_dir you can create one folder that will contain your batch build, so you instead with 3000 zOrtho4XPxxxx folders you end up with one folder called "Ireland" or whatever you wish.

it is correct that Ortho4XP closes automatically when all batch process is finished?... I´m not sure if stoped working or just finished...

Hi, I followed all of the steps how you said, but my scenery is completely flat! What do I do? Thanks!

can anyone point me in a direction of a video for the Mac OSX? I have the ORTHO installed and genrate the tiles etc, but i have no idea where to place them in OSX.. hope someone can help

After following all the steps and generating the photoscenery. I get all the photoscenery and roads and buildings but the custom scenery airport I have for the area isnt showing up. The airport Is KSAN by MisterX6

Hi Osamaha. I followed your instructions very carefully and started building my tiles. All was going well until I started receiving .. HTTPConnectionPool(host='a.tile.openstreetmap.org', port=80): Read timed out. We will try again in 3 sec... I keep getting this and it doesn't seem to be working. I am using OSM as a provider. Can you perhaps advise me further on how to fix this? Thanks

Thanks for all of your awesome tutorials and reviews! I made a tile for where I live and the results are really amazing. I had before made the photoscenerythe All pilot hd mesh v3 and W2xplane Europe mix, after installing the photoscenery i made an overlay using the mesh as sniffing folder but the result is not the same as w2xplane in terms of buildings and monuments... is there a way to use w2xplane Europe with the ortho4x photosnenery ?

Hi how do I make places of interests show in my custom scenery?

Also what are "Build masks"? is that the water conversion settings and you apply them? Also what water conversion settings would you reccomend? Cheers

The ortho files won't show on my ini notebook so i can't use Ortho4xp can someone tell me y might the ortho files show on my ini

hi q8pilot may I know approximately how long one tile takes to process and finish everything? Considering taking the sources as BI and zoomlevel as 17. thanks!

Thanks. Excellent!

Very helpful, thank you very much!

everytime i add the overlay and the scenery i start up xplane then get an error for a file named high parking fac something

Very impressive. Thanks!

Thank you for making this soo simple :)

Does this video apply to X Plane 11?

Hey, Great tutorial! I'm going to have a go at it soon! I'm currently running Spain UHD and I really like it, I have only one problem with it. In the really high parts of the mountains the peaks are loosing definition. Is there a way to get them nice and sharp as they are in real life? Thank

02:05 well done, no more pithin! Remember the video on NOAA?

Very helpful and informative video. Thank you so very much for your work. I have an question though. Do you need to make an new overlay for each new area batch you produce? Again thank you.

Hi, after creating my own scenery, and when I starting xplane, I got the following error: Error, could not locate image file for terrain Customscenery/zOrtho4XP-+48+12/terrain/textures/45424_70080_OSM17.dds Customscenery/zOrtho4XP-+48+12/terrain/45424_70080_OSM17.ter do you have any idea, how I can fix the problem? thanks

Thanks for the tutorial, I found it really useful. Still, when I try to make the scenery following you instructions I get many of the tiles with loads of white spaces. Any idea how to sort it out? Thanks for the help!

Osamah, thank you so much for the video. I have a question. After I copy the tiles and overlays to custom scenery, should I delete the folders tiles and overlays from Ortho4xp folder to save on hardware space ? Or leave them in tact? Thanks again so much.

Great video thanks, but I did not catch the program name that must be installed into windows Hyphen? what is the name of the program and where can I get it?Thanks, Regards,Mike W.

Hey! Thanks for the great tutorial :) Any idea how to stop the mesh from flattening my airports? I do not want any of them to be flattened.

Thanks nice video, you should cut back on the engine noise with the video while you talking. Thanks again

how can i store these large files on an external drive an use them on my x-plane 11 drive?

I noticed in the video this was created for X Plane 10 is this still compatible with x plane 11?

When you have to choose where to build overlays, is it better to pick alpilotx files X-plane scenery or or the X-plane global scenery?

Hey Q8Pilot, does ortho also improve night lighting and stuff ? More lights i mean

Can anyone help me i created 2 tiles about a month back and they were working great, today i built a new tile, followed the same instruction and installed into xplane. Now i have no photoreal scenery at all even the old ones are not showing up anymore. I tried reinstalling the original and re doing the scenery.ini to no avail. Should i just delete everything and rebuild all the tiles??

very good teacher! wish u had a donate button

How did you generate the ortho4xp_ overlays folder? I don't have one

Ive watched you on another tutorial for hdmeshv4... So let me ask, do you perfer/use photoreal scenery or hdmeshv4 yourself?

Hello! My texture somewhere nothing, somewhere good. please help me! I have big areas where nothing. And also good areas.

how that looks in the middle eastern countries because I know satellite images not equal in quality around the world

I can't install Ortho4XP at all, I have no idea what to do even after watching the author's video. It's really terrible.

Did you say "Latest Python for windows installed on your computer" ?? I couldn't quite understand that part.

By the way - thank you very much for the video!

Could you make a tutorial on how to use world2xplane with ortho4xp?

Hi ..couldn't see your link to ortho4xp can you please add here?

Hello Mr Osamah, I want to thank you for this tutorial on this amazing tool, I just followed all your steps. I tried to create 4 tiles in France at once it took a little bit more than 12 hours. But at the end of the process I can see my texture files I created but no overlay folder. It says :"Failure: there is no file to sniff from at the indicated place." So I am completely lost from there! I did enter the path of the custom overlay directory! Can you please tell me what I can do?

Thank you :)

Can someone help me none of my layers are there and it doesn't show any text about layers in scenery_packs

Hello Osamah. I tried to do this the same way you showed in the video but on step too, it tells me that there is n elevation. I have the elevations folder already. I just want to know if there is an easier way and faster way to make tiles instead of one by one Thanks

hi thank you first :) why dont i have the otho4xpOverlay folder 2:01 ??? thanks

Hi Q8 Pilot,I'm on Mac and it's been months i try to install Ortho4XP but no success...i get disappointed anytime i see how it is easy for you to do tiles that's why i'd like to ask if you can make some orthophotos for me,I have a lot of very good scenery of airports ans cities that i could give you in exchange sorry for my english i'm from Paris so i hope you'll be ok to help on it thank you my friend

what about the osm data files? do i move them to the custom scenery folder also? it created a 356mb file with 4 tiles i created

Easier way to check the scenery ini file is to use xOrganizer forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/31085-xorganizer-windows/

How do I delete the scenery? Just delete the files in Xplane11 folder?

What are you doing after 08:37 - How to process is going to be start?

Hi.! What is "Custom overlay dir" for ? does it only serves for replacing the "Tiles" default output folder?.

Hi Q8 THANKS THANKS THANKS!! A lot for this video.One question,when I convert my zone in the Earth Tile map,everithing is ok.I have converted the senery,I can see it in the simulator,but I lost the cars and the roads.Please can you help me with that problem?Because I thing that its an absurde thing,but.. I dont know were is the problem. Regards,Alex. PD,and also I organized the scenerie.(its in the top down)

hi, again great video...i've done everything the right way and downloaded the scenery but i dont see them in my scenery.ini file...any help??

When I click on the Ortho4xp map to select the files nothing comes up. pls help

Thanks for this video, it's been a real help. In fact, all your videos have helped me make my decision and move away from FSX to X-plane 11. Will having photo real scenery translate well over the seasons? For example, will it look identical when flying over a scenery in the summer vs winter etc. ? Thanks!

Can you create a tile for the whole world or would this kill your system?

Also if you set a preview zone in a certain zoom level, will it work in batch?