September 30, 20178 yr I have to balance my posts here so as not to favor one sim over the other. For these screenshots I am using Xplane's default Cessna and my own scenery, generated with OrthoXP4. I covered much of California and Nevada so I could complete flights between the Bay Area and Reno. I resampled down to level 16 to save space, not sacrificing much at altitude. The Bay Area was overlaid with autogen, but it didn't extend to the eastern deserts in Nevada. I love the end result, gives me a large VFR area to fly over. John
September 30, 20178 yr Wonderful atmosphere and scenery. For flying over northern California, we've come a long way since Fight Unlimited II. John
September 30, 20178 yr XP11 and Ortho is such a wonderfull mariage! Too bad that often the overlay is not following the ortho. But nice area, my compliments to the chef :) Regards, Vital Vanbeginne
September 30, 20178 yr 1 minute ago, vesalius said: XP11 and Ortho is such a wonderfull mariage! Too bad that often the overlay is not following the ortho. But nice area, my compliments to the chef :) Thank you. Once you have Ortho4XP installed, the process is very easy. I unzipped the Python modules into the same path as Ortho4XP, that did the trick as far as getting it to work and process all the scripts. It's on a separate partition, so it doesn't chew up space on my system partition. So is Xplane, I don't have it installed in Program Files but instead on a separate partition, it can be moved easily to accommodate the space it needs for photo-real scenery and for faster access rather than the busy C: drive. Flying in the scenery is very liquid in movement, panning around is easy. Obviously lowering the res to 16 helps, the scenery resolves itself like MSE once at altitude. What I really liked was running the process at bedtime, I just woke up to find it completed unattended. John
September 30, 20178 yr Looks like Truckee. Cant beat orthoXP. I use 16 and Bing for mine. Couple 17 levels in my home town area but 7gigs is steep. Ortho is very addicting, Have most of Socal and Nocal. Timothy Murphy
September 30, 20178 yr 8 minutes ago, HLJames said: Love the Tahoe area....very nice shots! HLJAMES Thank you, it's a nice stretch of land to fly over in any sim. John
September 30, 20178 yr 17 minutes ago, t4murphy said: Looks like Truckee. Cant beat orthoXP. I use 16 and Bing for mine. Couple 17 levels in my home town area but 7gigs is steep. Ortho is very addicting, Have most of Socal and Nocal. Yes, I saw how 17 chewed up my hard drive, 16 was better and not that bad at altitude, just like MSE. It's also easier on X-Plane since I only have 3GB of VRAM, no OOM errors. John
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