From the other forums someone stated :- Realize the maintainer of ortho4xp hasn't been seen for years. As of now, the only work is to see how we can run a script to update existing entries.

is that true?!

Last visit to the org in summer, so no. Also it's open source.

https://github.com/oscarpilote/Ortho4XP

 

I really hope someone picks this up and updates it. Would be a huge loss if this ends up being dead.

It seems to be, that their are same people who takes care of the watermaks and structure/ depth of the ground under water.

They need data from Laminar Research.

I think that their will come a script.

 

Can someone please update me on this?  I can still make ortho for XP11.5+ and then use it in XP12...is this related to the autogen and forests and such not being compatible?

The orthophotos have nothing to do with autogen and trees, they all work. Also snow is seen on orthos.

With the orthos you can see the new water and the new waves, but you dont habe 3D waves so an plane with waterskies on the water dosent schake.

16 minutes ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

Can someone please update me on this?  I can still make ortho for XP11.5+ and then use it in XP12...is this related to the autogen and forests and such not being compatible?

Seems like old ortho works mostly, you just loose the water effects. To support those in the future, either Ortho4XP needs to be updated or XP needs to be changed. If there are no other limitations.

4 hours ago, rka said:

Seems like old ortho works mostly, you just loose the water effects. To support those in the future, either Ortho4XP needs to be updated or XP needs to be changed. If there are no other limitations.

OK thanks. 

I think foliage biome info is another feature that will be missing from v11 ortho4xp tiles, in addition to no 3D water. Could be wrong there though.

2D water uses the same rendering algorithm as 3D, so from altitude it looks virtually identical (plus or minus some beta bugzzz). For short waves you can't tell a difference until you try to touch down on it.

It's true. Oscar hasn't been seen for quite a while and is unlikely to return to fame.

https://github.com/Ortho4XP/Ortho4XP

This is a fork of O4xp that has had relatively recent commits by the one person who has had permission to update Oscar's repository over the years. They posted the link above in the .org. It's only a matter of time before it gets updated to support 12. How much time remains to be seen. Could be a while because the SDK hasn't even been released yet. At the least, they are busy right now trying to figure out how to reverse engineer the stuff showing up in the beta dirs.

Does orthoxp do any colour correcting?

53 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

Does orthoxp do any colour correcting?

Nope, this must be done with other software.

4 hours ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

Nope, this must be done with other software.

That's incorrect, you can modify color levels, brightness and contrast. This is not done via the UI but instead in the configuration files. 
I did it all the times to minimize the overly greenish tint of Bing imagery

40 minutes ago, peroni said:

That's incorrect, you can modify color levels, brightness and contrast. This is not done via the UI but instead in the configuration files. 
I did it all the times to minimize the overly greenish tint of Bing imagery

Could you further elaborate this ? I am using an image editing software to color correct the orthos. Is there a better and easier way ?

in the ortho4xp folder structure there is one called filters, in there there should be some default ones that you can use as reference.

You can change the levels for the three channels R G B ad also modify brightness and contrast

For example:

levels 0 0.95 255 0 255    0 1 255 0 255  0 1.05 255 0 255
brightness-contrast -25 10

The above would decrease the R channel to 0.95 of the original value and increase the B channel to 1.05
Then decrease brightness by -25% and increase contreast by 10%

See also this link on how to get the filter to be used by your image provider of choice
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/169759-how-to-change-the-color-tones-for-a-source-in-v130/

Keep in mind this gets applied across all images for the provider, if you only need to color correct a few ones your method is the only way I know of.

23 hours ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

Nope, this must be done with other software.

 

12 hours ago, peroni said:

in the ortho4xp folder structure there is one called filters, in there there should be some default ones that you can use as reference.

You can change the levels for the three channels R G B ad also modify brightness and contrast

For example:

levels 0 0.95 255 0 255    0 1 255 0 255  0 1.05 255 0 255
brightness-contrast -25 10

The above would decrease the R channel to 0.95 of the original value and increase the B channel to 1.05
Then decrease brightness by -25% and increase contreast by 10%

See also this link on how to get the filter to be used by your image provider of choice
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/169759-how-to-change-the-color-tones-for-a-source-in-v130/

Keep in mind this gets applied across all images for the provider, if you only need to color correct a few ones your method is the only way I know of.

I assumed perhaps I shouldn't have.  I was assuming that only some photos needed to be matched with others, and I personally believe some other software if one knows how to do it can be used for that purpose.