Hi, PLT´s! How can I get rid of the ocean waves in P3Dv5 with ULTRA still present?

2 hours ago, Wennerholm said:

Hi, PLT´s! How can I get rid of the ocean waves in P3Dv5 with ULTRA still present?

Hi

 

 

Do you use ORBX?

Hope this helps

Personally, I open the Terrain.cfg file using the program Notepad++ and put // in front of each line that contains 'wavecontroller', 'lakewavecontroller' and if you use Orbx, 'Cntrl_Orbx_oceansurf' and 'fx_HS_FSX_oceanwavecontroller'. This stops the 2D waves from showing.

e.g.: //Effect=wavecontroller

As there are many entries, you can use the Find and Replace function.

If your text editor supports Regular Expressions, it's even faster:

Find: ^Effect(.*)wave(.*)$
Replace: //$0

and also;

Find: ^Effect(.*)ocean(.*)$
Replace: //$0
 

Bear in mind that each time you open Orbx Central and make a change (e.g. install a product), you have to open Terrain.cfg and again make the changes as listed above.

Takes all of about 30 seconds to do.
 

On 4/4/2021 at 1:15 AM, Tokitaumelie said:

Hi

 

 

Do you use ORBX?

Hope this helps

Thanks!

On 4/4/2021 at 1:49 AM, F737NG said:

Personally, I open the Terrain.cfg file using the program Notepad++ and put // in front of each line that contains 'wavecontroller', 'lakewavecontroller' and if you use Orbx, 'Cntrl_Orbx_oceansurf' and 'fx_HS_FSX_oceanwavecontroller'. This stops the 2D waves from showing.

e.g.: //Effect=wavecontroller

As there are many entries, you can use the Find and Replace function.

If your text editor supports Regular Expressions, it's even faster:

Find: ^Effect(.*)wave(.*)$
Replace: //$0

and also;

Find: ^Effect(.*)ocean(.*)$
Replace: //$0
 

Bear in mind that each time you open Orbx Central and make a change (e.g. install a product), you have to open Terrain.cfg and again make the changes as listed above.

Takes all of about 30 seconds to do.
 

Thanks!

There is actually an update for the ORBX waves that looks alot better. You have to install the ORBX PNW Ferries freeware (https://orbxdirect.com/product/pnwferries) . Once installed, go to the Orbx folder and navigate to "\NA Pacific Northwest Ferries\ORBX\FTX_NA\FTX_AA_PNW_FERRIES\Extras"
In there you will see a zip file named "Global_Orbx_Wave_Effects.zip"
Unzip that and place the unzipped folder in your "Documents\Prepar3d V5 Addons" folder.
The Wave effects will look a good bit better.

 

Why for the life of me ORBX never replaced to old FSX wave effects with these V4+ ones for the V5 version of Orbx Global I cannot understand.

Edited June 18, 20214 yr by FrankSalo