I just have noticed (yes, I know, I know...) that UTX is now officially supported by F1 and I would like to combine it with ORBX products. ORBX is good for textures, coast/river lines, but UTX provides the best road network and night lighting. Would appreciate if someone provides a hint how to deal with it. 

 

Thanks

Dmitriy

I did this very long time ago.  There are some hooks which UTX uses that makes use of their GEX:P3D product.  Something in the default building autogen etc.  It was something that I noticed and never got a direct answer b/c UTX truly works 100% with GEX-P3D.

Bottom line: They both are rival companies each would want their product work with their own.

I was never going to buy GEX-P3D and UTX only covers few continents - they have nothing like global vector.

Forgot does UTX layer come below global layer or above.  All you have to do is install global + UTX and it should work.  There were threads on this a while back ago.

 

All I need is UTX road network - it's magnificent and Vector did very poor job on them.

Just now, G-YMML1 said:

All I need is UTX road network - it's magnificent and Vector did very poor job on them.

You are right about that.

All you would need to do is disable all the orbx vector roads and make sure UTX roads are enabled

And I would appreciate if ORBX would consider to improve Vector, rather than  developing airports in already super congested areas 😉

9 minutes ago, Nemo said:

And I would appreciate if ORBX would consider to improve Vector, rather than  developing airports in already super congested areas 😉

I posted a request for some news on v1.7 on July, 18th. Non committal answer from Nick. 

https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/176268-vector-17-in-the-pipeline/?tab=comments#comment-1541287

 Posting there is the thing to do.

V2 of Vector will probably eventually happen.  I can assume after openLC Asia/Africa is done.  Maybe there will be announcement next year.

My UTX has been collecting dust all these years.  I have zero plans to ever install it as openLC-NA works perfect with Orbx products.

Lets see what MSFS 2020 brings

I use FTX Global and OpenLC NA/EU together with UTX.  It's a bit tricky, as both FTX and UTX make changes to the terrain.cfg.  UTX is well-behaved and leaves the Orbx entries alone.  FTX Central is not similarly well-behaved, and it removes the UTX entries.  I have a post-FTX Central "recovery" protocol that I run after any use of FTX Central, and as part of that I run each of the UTX config programs (US, EU, and CAN), and do a quick disable followed by a quick enable to force UTX to re-write its terrain.cfg entries after FTX Central has unceremoniously removed them.  In P3D Addon Manager I have the UTX landclass placed below the Orbx LC so that the OpenLC landclass takes priority in those areas where it exists. 

I don't use Vector, so I have no idea what the complexities of turning off its roads completely would entail, if that's possible at all.

Regards

The Vector menu allows to disable highways, primary, secondary, tertiary roads.My philosphy is that life is too short to try to mix the OrbX Global range including Vector and UTX.

Now that Allen is working with OrbX I hope we'll see his inputs in a future version of Vector, if any.

46 minutes ago, domkle said:

The Vector menu allows to disable highways, primary, secondary, tertiary roads.My philosphy is that life is too short to try to mix the OrbX Global range including Vector and UTX.

Now that Allen is working with OrbX I hope we'll see his inputs in a future version of Vector, if any.

Who is Allen?

Rightly said - life is way too short to mix UTX with Orbx.  Trust me UTX works well with GEX-P3D (they have hooks which call data from both).  This is like opening MS Excel file in Mac Pages - sure it will kinda work but you know it is not fully 100% and is going to miss features

 

To the op - please share your pics when you get your UTX working well with Global.  It would be great to see the pics.  It has been years since I did that.  I think I managed to get it working during Prepar3d 1.4 or v2 days; if memory recalls correctly.

 

Edited September 6, 20196 yr by Skywolf

2 minutes ago, Skywolf said:

Who is Allen?

 

 

Allen Kreisman - he is the developer of UTX products. Currently he is working for Orbx designing cityscapes etc.

Vic

1 hour ago, Skywolf said:

Who is Allen?

 

 

Allen Kriesman, UTX (among other things) developer

Edited September 6, 20196 yr by domkle

Whoa is now part of Orbx - wow...that is awesome.