Greetings everyone! I just downloaded and tried TP and it looks really great! However, I have a couple of questions:1) The scenery is simply wrong... In the place where my home town centrum should be, there is private homes and little parks, and it looks nothing like the real city. I can verify that it IS photoscenery/satelite imagery, but it's obviously not in the correct location. What gives?2) I get some scenery roads that render on top of TP, and it looks awkward. The funny thing is that the roads and railroads, even if looking weird together with TP, is probably more in the right place geographically than TP is... Anyway, I'd like to turn off these roads and stick with TP roads. How can I do this?Many thanks for your help and time! :)Sincerely,Andreas

I just flew around in Bolzano, and again I have this problem. The rendered scenery looks nothing like the satellite images on the web. It looks great, but doesnt render the real scenery - which is a paradox to me because TP is supposed to do exactly that - render the real thing. Here are a couple of pics to show more of the problem:The satellite image of Bolzano:The ingame, f12 view of the same place:What am I doing wrong? I'd be really happy to get this straightened out! Many thanks! :)

I notice the terrain rendering is so much off Im not even quite sure if TP is renderning the textures for the correct country..?

I notice the terrain rendering is so much off Im not even quite sure if TP is renderning the textures for the correct country..?

Something is wrong on your end as your second picture above is of default textures and roads and not Tileproxy scenery.Do you have a map server selected in the Tileproxy configuration file?Todd

Andreas,1. The TileProxy download does NOT contain a usable configuration file. Get a usable one from Ed's site. and read his startup information.2. be sure and start Tileproxy before Flightsim.3. Neither Tileproxy install, the scenery folder location nor the photo caches NEED to be in the FS9/FSX folder itself- because you are saving photos and creating scenery from them, I think it best to have the scenery folder on a separate HDD if you can put it there. Once it has been located, it cannot be moved without a reinstall to the new location.4. If you actually downloaded images from Bolzano area you should have a saved tile (tile_l15_x17416_y21174.jpg) showing the bridge and river from your screenshot area... you can use the Windows search feature to see if you have anything like this in your cache.5. Make sure your scenery.cfg file has the new 90 entries for TileProxy scenery folders 0000 through 1107still have problems...? post screenshot or copy of DOS window startup... like so ( so we can see if TP is actually started)proxyUser: World \Device\HarddiskVolume3 ===> D:proxyUser: Attempting to attach filter to volume '\Device\HarddiskVolume3' (drive D:)proxyUser: SUCCESS! Filter loaded as: Tileproxy InstanceproxyUser: FSX \Device\HarddiskVolume8 ===> G:proxyUser: FS9 \Device\HarddiskVolume8 ===> G:proxyUser: Connecting to the filterproxyUser: Tileproxy communication with filter driver established.TileAPI: Using network module 'libnettile'TileAPI: Network configuration 'conn=4|rate=1.0|verbose=0|server=http://a*.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.net|path=/tiles/a%s.jpeg?g=%v|quad=0123|balance=0123|useragent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)'TileAPI: Service name is 'ms'TileAPI: Using cache folder 'D:\cacheWC'TileAPI: Map version is '426'proxyUser: Configuration summary master_enable=1 diskless_mode=0 logfile= enable_hooking=0 enable_dx9hook=0 offline_mode=0 menu_sources=Acme Globe Service source=ms max_contexts=512 preload=1023 network module=libnettile module configuration=conn=4|rate=1.0|verbose=0|server=http://a*.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.net|path=/tiles/a%s.jpeg?g=%v|quad=0123|balance=0123|useragent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) max_lod=11 (64x64 tiles) preload_min_lod=8 preload_max_lod=11 min_level=10 max_level=13 color_hack=0 color_level=13 bulk_extend=50 level_mapping=Not activated map_version=426 water_mask=Off water_smoothing=Off water_threshold=0.330000 water_blending=On blend_distance=230.000000 blend_exponent=1.000000 alpha_min=0.267800 alpha_max=0.700000 water_rgb=#407b80 enable_movingmap=0 (alpha=255, color=#ff000000 x,y,w,h=88.0% 15.0% 60.0% 80.0%, r=60)proxyUser: TileProxy is ready for takeoff.Hope this helpsLoyd

Thanks for replies! :)I have downloaded the proxyuser.ini file from the tutorial site (Ed's site if I remember correctly?), and I have selected a map site (no. 1), and ensured that the other sites have a # infront of them. I have installed the two files folders on a seperate disc (d:\TPCache\) and edited the .ini file to correspond with this. I have tried to follow the quickstart tutorial to the letter. I have installed a little prog that makes win7 64 bit start with allowing unsigned drivers automatically, and I get no errormessage from the tileproxy.exe dos window when I start this. It says "ready for takeoff". Then I start FSX. I see the tiles being downloaded without errors. I also added a norwegian mapping service to the .ini file (found on this forum) as cache0 and tried that as well. I get very different scenery from cache0 and cache1 (msn). On cache0 I ended up getting almost no scenery at all - just bare, green landscape representing woods and no towns, houses etc. I dont get any errors, and the dos window behaves the same way as on the caches (1,3,4). On cache1 I get real scenery, and also no errors in the dos window. It loads tiles (counts down and says "done", and proceeding to next tile, and it goes very fast). I let it load untill the same tilenumber is just repeated over and over (for me this means that it's done loading current tiles, am I right?).

Something is wrong on your end as your second picture above is of default textures and roads and not Tileproxy scenery.Do you have a map server selected in the Tileproxy configuration file?Todd

I cant understand that the fsx pic (f12, lower of the two pics) is not tp scenery. All the buildings are completely flat, and very different from other scenery I have from b4 installing TP. It certainly looks as TP tiles when flying over it. It's just the wrong tiles...

Here is a pic of my DOS proxy startup. See anything wrong?My scenery.cfg file has the entries for tileproxy. It comes a bit down in the document, and looks like this:[Area.182]Title=WORLD_LOD8Local=D:\TPCache\TileProxy Photoreal World\LOD8Layer=116Active=TRUERequired=FALSE[Area.183]Title=WORLD_0000Local=D:\TPCache\TileProxy Photoreal World\0000Layer=170Active=TRUERequired=FALSE[Area.184]etc etc

Ok after much experimenting I come to the conclusion that it is indeed standard scenery that is being rendered, and not any tp tiles at all... :( I tried to delete custom sceneries from the liberary, but it didnt help. I decided to do a complete reinstall of fsx and sp1+2, fsuipc, TileProxy, but to no avail. Just FYI I uninstalled all addons, sceneries and fsx apps b4 uninstalling sp2 and fsx. I used a registry cleaner and memory cache cleaner b4 rebooting, and then installing fsx (start fsx and reboot), sp1 (start fsx and reboot, sp2 (start fsx and reboot), fsuipc and TP. I am not getting any error messages in TP, and I havent found anything about it in the FAQ or guides so far. Im going to add the proxyuser.ini settings here:## Start a line with # to comment it out.# Turn your text editor's Word Wrapping OFF for editing this document.## Read the manual for help with configuration. Do not contact the# author about the configuration for particular services. Thank you.#[TileProxy]# Enable or disable worldwide photographic scenery coverage (Yes/True/On to enable)master_enable=On# Write a logfile to disk. In recommend to only turn this on for debugging purposes.# When using FSX RTM or FS 2004, the logfile will grow VERY fast and affect performance.#logfile="C:\logfile.txt"# If you have concerns about possible copyright violations by caching JPEG and BMP tiles# on your hard drive, this switch is the solution. By enabling diskless mode, Tileproxy# will not store a single tile on your hard drive. Expect higher network usage though.# Note that offline mode will depend on tiles being available in the cache.diskless_mode=Off# Offline Mode - No network access will occur (Yes/True/On to enable)offline_mode=No# Resolution limiter: 17 = 30cm/pixel, 16 = 60cm/pixel, 15 = 1.1m/pixel, 14 = 2.3m/pixel, 13 = 4.75m/pixel# Lower resolutions load faster, but are visually less appealing. The 30cm resolution may only be feasible# if you have at least 2GB of system memory.max_lod=15# The following two settings allow you to tune Tileproxy to not preload specific LOD levels. This can# be used in conjunction with third party scenery products like "FS Altitude" that provides data only# up to a specific resolution. If you place this scenery higher than Tileproxy's world folders in the# scenery library then it will have precedence over Tileproxy for the specific LOD levels that it# contains. You can then instruct Tileproxy to not preload these low resolution LOD circles because# they are not needed anyway.# Lowest LOD ring to automatically preload tiles for. Must not be lower than 8.preload_min_lod=9# Lowest LOD ring to automatically preload tiles for. Must not be higher than 17.preload_max_lod=15# The maximum number of tile contexts that Tileproxy will send to the filter driver. A context# is essentially a very fast buffer for graphics data sitting in kernel memory that delivers# data right into FSX. Each tile context can hold an entire LOD 8...15 tile. Higher values# mean more use of your precious kernel memory though. The maximum number is 512. Lower if# you run out of RAM during flight and the PC starts to use the paging file a lot.max_contexts=512# Generate Water Mask. This brings back shader-rendered water and allows# for the use of planes with floats (Goose, Beaver, etc...). If you turn this# option off, you get the Tileproxy behavior of Beta 5 and earlier versions.water_mask=On# Recommendation: FSX users: Use water_blending=on, water_smoothing=off# to get soft land/water transitions## FS9 users: Use water_blending=off, water_smoothing=on# to get hard land/water transitions which# Tileproxy tries to match pixel-exact against coast-lines## Combining water_smoothing and water_blending is discouraged.# It's slow and gives weird results.# Use blending techniques to create a soft land/water transition with some# transparency effect near the shoreline. Compatible with FSX only.water_blending=On# The distance in meters that you want land/water blending to extend from the# shore line. Larger values require more processing. Large values are now possible,# useful values are up to 2000 meters. Very high values may be detrimental to water# mask resolution. Loading speed however remains mostly unaffected by this setting.blend_distance=500.0# The rate at which terrain is blended into the water color. 1.0 means a linear# blending, values > 1.0 blend faster. Values < 1.0 blend slower. This works# similarly to a Gamma Curve. An exponent of 2 gives a quadratic blend function,# an exponent of 0.5 results in a square root behavior.blend_exponent=1.0# The minimal and maximal transparency of the water. The lower you choose the min value,# the more reflective the deep water will be. The higher the max value is chosen, the less# reflective the water will be directly at the shore line. The reflectiveness transitions# linearly from max to min throughout the distance given by blend_distance from the shore.# Allowed values are between 0 and 1, and alpha_min should be smaller than alpha_max or# things may look weird.# The following alpha_min values will not give you any dithering artifacts on all-water tiles,# so the use of these is recommended. It is multiples of 16/239 (rounded up slighty)# 0.0700, 0.1339, 0.2009, 0.2678, 0.3348, 0.4017, 0.4687# 0.5356, 0.6026, 0.6695, 0.7365, 0.8034, 0.8703, 0.9373alpha_min=0.2678alpha_max=0.7# The water color in hexadecimal RGB notation. Prefix with #. This should be blue# or greenish blue or some shades of brown, depending on your preference.# Values of #000000 are discouraged when using water blending - it will result# in weird behavior at the shorelines.water_rgb=#000D1A# Try to smooth land/water boundaries by trying to match the water mask to the image content.# This is a a somewhat experimental algorithm.water_smoothing=Off# The decision threshold for water/land when water_smoothing is enabled. 0 means everything# will be turned to land, 1 means everything turns to water. Chose some value inbetween.water_threshold=0.33# Maximum number of bytes allocated to BMP graphics tiles in RAM at any time (0 for unlimited)# The value below states 100 MB = 100000000cache_bytes_limit=0# Maximum number of BMP tiles to cache in RAM at any time (0 for no limit).cache_tiles_limit=100000# The currently active service is configured here. Only ONE active source please.# The other source statements should be commented out.#source=Acme Globe Servicesource=Service Example 1#source=Service Example 3#source=Service Example 4# The sources you want to be able to switch from the GUI menu.# Separate the list entries with | and enclose in quotes. Make sure the# names specified here are valid services which are defined below.# You may want to rename the services according to your preference,# but make sure you replace all occurences of the strings.menu_sources="Service Example 1|Service Example 2|Service Example 3|Service Example 4"# Experimental API Hooking section. Disable if you see strange crashes and effects.# Currently we only have the DirectX 9 hook. More hooks are planned.enable_hooking=No# The DirectX 9 hook enables the moving map overlay. More features are planned.enable_dx9hook=No# A flag whether to show the moving map overlay initially or not.enable_movingmap=No# Dimensions and overlay colors of the moving map. Positions are percentages of the screen.# Width and Height refer to the full 512x512 pixel texture used for the map. To get a round# map circle, the ratio of width and height should match your screen's aspect ratio (e.g. 4:3)# Radius is given in the map texture's pixels where one pixel represents a LOD 15 tile. A# radius of 0 disables the round stencil and shows the entire 512x512 texture. Color is given# in a hexadecimal ARGB notation. movingmap_alpha=255movingmap_color=#ff000000movingmap_xpos=88movingmap_ypos=15movingmap_width=60movingmap_height=80movingmap_radius=60## Here begin the service specific configurations## This is new when you specify captcha_module## On encountering HTTP 302 redirects the captcha module will send Internet Explorer's cookies# stored for the specified service domain to the web server. It will also display whatever web# page the service redirects you to. This could be a page requiring you to enter a so-called# captcha. After entering the captcha correctly, the resulting session cookie will be stored as# a permanent cookie (expiration 1 day) in your IE Cookies folder and sent to the service on# subsequent requests. You will then be able to use the service as long as you wish, given that# you correctly enter the captcha dialog which may nag you once every 20 minutes or so.# # Explaining the captcha_config arguments:## cookiedomain from captcha_config specifies the domain name for which cookies are stored.# This might be the service name plus a top level domain like ".com"## cookieurl specifies a HTTP url from which an identifying cookie will be retrieved first, if# no existing identifying cookie is found. This may be required sometimes to make the captcha# dialog appear in the first place. This could be the service's front page URL (e.g. a search# engine)[Acme Globe Service]cache_folder=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\cache.acmenetwork_module=libnettilemodule_config="conn=20|rate=2.0|verbose=0|server=http://server*.acmeglobe.com|path=/terraintile?pos=%s&v=%v|quad=ABCD|balance=0123|agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; The TileProxy Project)"captcha_module=captchaformcaptcha_config="cookiedomain=acmeglobe.com|cookieurl=http://www.acmeglobe.com"min_level=9max_level=17map_version=1color_hack=Nocolor_level=0bulk_extend=25[service Example 1]cache_folder=D:\TPCache\cache.service1network_module=libnettilemodule_config="conn=20|rate=2.0|verbose=0|server=http://a*.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.net|path=/tiles/a%s.jpeg?g=%v|quad=0123|balance=0123|useragent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"min_level=9max_level=15map_version=472level_mapping=9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19#level_mapping=9,10,11,12,14,14,15,16,17,18,19 more radius HQ (13->14)#level_mapping=9,10,11,14,14,14,15,16,17,18,19 even more radius in HQ (12,13->14)color_hack=Yescolor_level=13bulk_extend=50[service Example 3]cache_folder=D:\TPCache\cache.service3network_module=libnettilemodule_config="conn=20|rate=2.0|verbose=0|server=http://us.maps3.yimg.com|path=/aerial.maps.yimg.com/img?x=%x&y=%y&z=%z&v=%v&t=a|useragent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"min_level=5max_level=19map_version=1.9color_hack=Nocolor_level=0bulk_extend=50[service Example 4]cache_folder=D:\TPCache\cache.service4network_module=libnettilemodule_config="conn=20|rate=2.0|verbose=0|server=http://mapcache*.ask.com|path=/sat/%Z/%X/%Y?partner=|balance=1234|useragent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"min_level=5max_level=19map_version=1color_hack=Yescolor_level=12bulk_extend=50

Ok after much experimenting I come to the conclusion that it is indeed standard scenery that is being rendered, and not any tp tiles at all... :( I tried to delete custom sceneries from the liberary, but it didnt help. I decided to do a complete reinstall of fsx and sp1+2, but to no avail. I am not getting any error messages in TP, and I havent found anything about it in the FAQ or guides so far. Please help :(

When TP is installed, it changes the configuration of the "scenery library" of fsx, in order to have the tiles produced by TP at the highest priority. If you are still seeing the FSX terrain, something isn't working. Let's do it step by step:1) Backup somewhere the tileproxy configuration file. You will need it later on2) Un-install TP3) Install TP - take note of the caches and the photoreal scenery location you will choose during the installation process4) Start FSX, check the "scenery library". make sure at the beginning there is the list of TP entries. Do you see them?5) Close FSX. in the TP installation folder, edit the tileproxy configuration according to 1). Make sure the location of the caches and the photoreal scenery match the choices you made in 3). Are you sure they match?6) Now start TP, in the TP window you should see at the end the message 'TP is ready to take-off' or something like that. Do you see it?7) Start FSX, but NOT DO start a flight. The TP window should change, you should see a number of dots in several oval patterns and see those dots filled slowly by '#', meaning that TP is loading tiles according to default location of the aircraft. After a while the process will be completed (all the ovals filled with #). Do you see it?8) Now start a flight. The loading phase should take some time. When you are flying, you can understand immediately if TP is working or not by looking at trees and buildings: as TP disables AutoGen (the FSX component responsible for creating trees and houses) you will not see any tree or house when you fly: only the airport and related buildings are 3D element. Everything else is just an image. What do you see when you fly?Hope this will help,Paolo

I searched my disk and found that TP had indeed downloaded tile_l15_x17416_y21174.jpg for bolzano. Here it is:Here is how the bolzano airport looks like in my fsx now with TP running:Here is the bing satellite map of the same place, and how it SHOULD look like:Here is a screenie of my cache folder:Here is a screenie of my displaysettings:And here is a screenie of my scenery settings:Here is a screenie from my library:I hope that gives you guys the info you need to give me a lil' help :) I would love for nothing more than to get TP to work! Here is hoping for the best! Sincerely,Andreas

Ok I have tried to wait untill the bubbles in the dos window fill up b4 I click "fly now". However, there is 1 bubble that doesnt fill. I dont know if this is normal? Anyway, it has no effect on my scenery :( I had my autogen slider set to off, btw, and when I set it to normal during flight, I get buildings and trees.

I enabled hook in the ini file, and It worked fine ingame, updating the LOD circles as described in the ini helptext.However, the autogen is on, and the tiles are not rendering ingame.

Here is yet another post in what is growing into a thread, and I'm almost doing it all by my self :( I much appreciate those of you who have contributed your thoughts! I suddenly realised that I had placed the cache folders on my D: drive, which is a FAT32 drive. I formatted the drive, and made it NTFS, and reinstalled TP. Still no go. I tried to uninstall TP and install the cache on my C drive, but that didn't work either :( I dont understand this at all. Every time I start FSX now with TP in the background, my sliders are automatically adjusted (no autogen, and medium range etc). So it is definately connected. Also the moving map works without a hitch. I cant see any trees or buildings, but the scenery ISNT TP. Or if it is, then why isnt it rendering the real life images? The landscape presented is obviously from *somewhere*, but it isnt showing the place I actually am at. It is, as someone above said, standard scenery without autogen. Looks good though :( But I dont need TP for that - and I really want this to work.Ok it's bedtime now. I hope someone clever will answer this thread and help me move along :) Good night!

Good morning folks! Just a little thought that popped in to my head:I installed the superdriverplus application that automates the F8 startup procedure. After that I installed TP. I *still* got a messagebox during installation that says that the program tried to install an unsigned driver. I just closed it, not thinking any more about it. And Im not getting any errormessages when running TP, but it is obviously not working.Is this a problem with an unsigned driver still - is there some manual registration part of the installation procedure that I skipped?