Just now, Sesquashtoo said:

"Mark...THAT can be easily corrected, sir!" :))))))

Not in light of how much I have spent in he past week on P3D stuff. 

Can't be beaten in my opinion. I can fly over places that normally I'd pay a lot for in real life, and it looks great.

And, costs nothing (no wonder payware dews avoid X-Plan (I'm not sure to be sad or happy here))

5 hours ago, Sesquashtoo said:

That's the figure held in your V-RAM, Michael, that is being processed in real-time, but XP will load into every available GB's of your system RAM, that the O.S. does not inhabit.  That is what takes 4-5 minutes for my total 12 GB's of System RAM. My motherboard can only hold 12 GB's max.  So...in your case, many more tiles will be pre-loaded (for great smooth animation and tile fly-over transitions...) to fill the remainder of your 32 GB's of System Ram, not your graphic card's V-Ram cache.

I also get a multi-tile 5 second or so pause...which is normal. I misread your post and have reedited my response. :)  You should go a bit longer at least twice my interval, as you have over twice my total System Ram capacity.

That is normal...and if only 5 seconds, you are doing very well... my pauses are about the same, perhaps a tad, in seconds, more. Does not affect my immersion at all.  Not for what you get after the load-in pause...:)))))))

Mitch

 

Thanks for your response Mitch. I appreciate your input.

I agree 5 secs pause is a small price to pay for what you see visually.

You are an awesome resource to have in the forums Mitch. Thanks for your patience with all of us newcomers to the world of Orhto.

Michael

4 hours ago, michaelray said:

Thanks for your response Mitch. I appreciate your input.

I agree 5 secs pause is a small price to pay for what you see visually.

You are an awesome resource to have in the forums Mitch. Thanks for your patience with all of us newcomers to the world of Orhto.

Michael

Glad you are enjoying, and thanks for your kind words. 

Mitch

On 02. 06. 2017. at 11:46 PM, tonywob said:

Can't be beaten in my opinion. I can fly over places that normally I'd pay a lot for in real life, and it looks great.

And, costs nothing (no wonder payware dews avoid X-Plan (I'm not sure to be sad or happy here))

How about some antialiasing ? Any at least ?

Nice view but those awful edges ...makes it hurting unprotected eyes.

Look at those trees, my God. Especially ones over the water.

23 minutes ago, gamer19 said:

How about some antialiasing ? Any at least ?

Nice view but those awful edges ...makes it hurting unprotected eyes.

Look at those trees, my God. Especially ones over the water.

You know, antialiasing can be increased and hence improved. Differently from terrain popups, blurries, stutters and awful night scenery.

Dear Sesquqshtoo, I am very intrigued by your posts and would like to do a test with the highest zoom level for the region of Barcelona.

Could you point me the settings you are using for Ortho4Xp and if you use other tool? Also do you use any overlay?

the reason I’m asking is because after following a YouTube tutorial I still see images at a fairly high height even when I select Z19 tiles.

many many thanks

4 hours ago, joaofredneto said:

Dear Sesquqshtoo, I am very intrigued by your posts and would like to do a test with the highest zoom level for the region of Barcelona.

Could you point me the settings you are using for Ortho4Xp and if you use other tool? Also do you use any overlay?

the reason I’m asking is because after following a YouTube tutorial I still see images at a fairly high height even when I select Z19 tiles.

many many thanks

Hi Joaofredneto,  for my Ortho4XP tile generation, I use z17/19-4  What that means, is that for all of my tiles, I run at z17 (you certainly don't need any more...to enjoy clear and identifiable landmarks and other topography), but that ending 19-4 means, that for 4 (four) mils out surrounding any and all airports, the tile will generate at z19.  So..the best of both worlds.  For 4 miles in-bound on Final...or for 4 miles after rotation, you have some pretty incredible eye candy, that locks you right into your immersion, then as you meld past the 4 mile radius, there is a fall back (which is not abrupt by any means...nothing to make you wince!) to z17 .  I find this formula a win/win  Generating at z19 will bankrupt you in  necessary storage...and truly, after about climbing to 2,800 feet to infinity, there is really now heightened discernible difference that would entice you to generate ONLY at z19. 

So, how do you get a tile at the resolution formula of z17/19-4?  You set up the .cfg file int Note+++ and you change all the parameters that apply (tons of custom switches for you to so personalize YOUR requirements...) then press SAVE to save your changes on the Ortho4XP.cfg   Then..when you evoke a tile creation session,  the program will parse your active .cfg switches and use those to create your tile.   If you are just starting this...YES...YES, you will make a few mistakes..you will not create a working tile...perhaps one or two, as you figure out after the fact, what you did wrong...and make corrections. That's the learning curve. We all have been through it. 

Once you then, by trial and failure, learn how to generate you own custom tile(s),..that fits your mandate to do so,...there will be no looking back,..as you will be whipping then out, as fast as your system can generate them.  The only thing that actually sets the pace...is your internet connection, and the Data Source location (and their severs..some are full out, some are manually choked...), and that's what my method has been, and was for the time this thread was current and active, was to set up around 20-30 tiles that would cover a State, a Province, or a European Country, at around 22:00 hours, and let the computer generate my tiles overnight, and if need's be, into the next working business day...until they finished.

I have a fast connection, and was able (if I remember..it was some time ago..) I could generate a z17/19-4 tile every half hour..so two per hour.  My 30 or so tile composition would take 15 hours...of course.  There were times, that when I came home, or when I got up in the morning, expecting the 30 to be done...I found my system only on about 18 or so...because there were so many (on the log) failed attempts at connection with Google, Bing, Jo Blow...Betty Boop...etc...that will happen and is out of your control...so again...to mitigate any initial learning curve frustration...create at the end of the evening...let it happen over night while you sleep..and in that way I covered all of North America, Central America the top third of South America...and all of Europe, Scandinavia, and North Africa. I did not generate anything in Eurasia, as I have no interest to fly there.

Hope this helps...and oh...to install your tiles into XP...you use SHORTCUTS...the tiles stay on your generated drive. In other words, I have four My Book 6 Terabyte drives that ONLY have one Ortho4XP Folder on them...and all the tiles generated from that drive, stay on that drive. I then create in my Tile Folder...Shortcuts. Then...I move all my Shortcuts into my Custom Scenery Folder. When I fly with XP,  you can see the busy lights on each My Book show active use...and then as I fly across a generated state, province, country..the drives will be called upon as XP load in ahead of my flight path.   Stick with it...you will make frustrating (I'm sure mistakes at first. I did, he did, she did, they did...and you will too. After that...and you're comfortable in how to create a successful tile...there will be no stopping you...except for the capacity to hold what you want to generate.  Again...W.D. My Books are just fabulous for your generating library.

I don't use anything else other than the option switches on/off and or a number setting/level setting for/in those switches in the Ortho4XP.cfg file. It's all customized from there, when your Tile starts to generate.

Your final question...do I use Overlays...and the answer is; absolutely...I want the road traffic, auto gen...lights...the all of it.  I generate the Overlay as part of each tiles generation. Then, you make a Shortcut of the Overlay files, and that shortcut MUST BE higher in your Scenery.cfg file, then your TILE shortcuts. That is as MUST, or you will not get anything but terrible anomalies when you plop yourself down at an airport location.  One more cool thing...there are many times that I disable the Overlay Folder in my Scenery.cfg file..so ONLY the actual tile mask in below me...and that also is fantastic..for at z17/19-4, you will see any and all road traffic, REAL rode traffic that the sat image caught when taking pictures.  What you won't have...are night lights. So...you'd only use that method, for strictly daytime operation.  At z17, that method gives you killer performance, dead smooth aircraft performance, as no auto-gen is being called into play...every house, tree, bush, car, bus, high rise..is already there, the real one...burned at 2D,  into the tile.  Have fun...

Good luck

Ses

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Sesquashtoo