Waves

[Wennerholm 44]

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

[Tokitaumelie 164]

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

[F737MAX 5,525]

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.
 

[Wennerholm 44]

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

Hi

 

 

Do you use ORBX?

Hope this helps

Thanks!

[Wennerholm 44]

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!

[FrankSalo 272]

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, 2021 by FrankSalo