John Venema Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 If you want to see the photoreal roads in X-Plane TrueEarth GB, use this tip: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david broome Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Hi John. One of the common criticisms of Xplane autogen is the roads which don't really look part of the landscape and are the wrong colour and with wrong markings for England so it is nice to have this option which improves things. I'm curious though as to whether OrbX have considered making their own textures for roads and using those instead of Xplane default just as they do with autogen houses etc. Is this possible, is it something you are considering or is it something for the Xplane devs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyAgi Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 The Great Britain roads seem to be custom to me. They look very different to the default roads and they have a different LOD behaviour. The blue road signs seem to be a bit off but all the rest looks great to me. I really like how the roads fit into the orthophotos, they give a good volumetric impression cutting the landscape and pronouncing the nearby trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david broome Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 On 10/17/2018 at 1:07 PM, FlyAgi said: The Great Britain roads seem to be custom to me. They look very different to the default roads and they have a different LOD behaviour. The blue road signs seem to be a bit off but all the rest looks great to me. I really like how the roads fit into the orthophotos, they give a good volumetric impression cutting the landscape and pronouncing the nearby trees. Yes there are some custom roads Ithink (major roads?) but there is an issue with them as well which is that often the terrain texture "cuts through" which is also seen bottom left of your screenshot, they also seem to flicker here and there as though there is no AA being applied. As far as I can tell this only applies to major roads and minor roads are still Xplane generated? Could be wrong though. The blend in with terrain is nice with transparent roads enabled but on non major roads tend to look like grass or dirt tracks so some OrbX autogen roads that completely replace Xplanes would be preferable for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Or maybe just tone down the grey colour a little to make them less intrusive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcmarple Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Is there a "hack" for manual installers to make the roads transparent? I snooped around in the overlay folder and saw a folder called" roads_t" which may be the transparent ones - selectable if you install via FTX? Is there a way to tweak this manually? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pks1414 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 I'm not sure what's happened but however many times I try I cannot get transparent roads working again, they did until the other day and now despite using the control panel and checking the Radio Button for them, nothing changes. I have checked the overlay_roads folder and there are are two folders, roads_t and roads_x. So far as I can tell my scenery.ini file is in the correct order?? Any ideas anyone Paul (confused of Evesham ) scenery_packs.ini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Did you try this? I only had the one roads folder so I ran FTX Central again and it downloaded some more files and then messed up my scenery_packs.ini file again! Beware!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flsm (Frank) Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 On 10/15/2018 at 10:37 PM, John Venema said: If you want to see the photoreal roads in X-Plane TrueEarth GB, use this tip: Am really enjoying TE GB South. Wouldn't mind trying photorealistic roads but being on a Mac cannot use FTX. Do we Mac users wait for FTX to become Mac-friendly (which I know you are working on) or is there a manual hack/mod we can try now? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcmarple Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Frank - the tip in the posted thread above worked for me. Go to X-Plane > Custom Scenery > Orbx_B_GB_South_TrueEarth_Overlay > move the existing "roads" folder somewhere safe (or rename it) and rename "roads_t" to "roads". Looks much better to me now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flsm (Frank) Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 4 hours ago, rcmarple said: Frank - the tip in the posted thread above worked for me. Go to X-Plane > Custom Scenery > Orbx_B_GB_South_TrueEarth_Overlay > move the existing "roads" folder somewhere safe (or rename it) and rename "roads_t" to "roads". Looks much better to me now... Thanks very much. I did see that but because it was talking about roads_x as well, which I could not see, I was not game to give it a go. But I will try now. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flsm (Frank) Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 13 minutes ago, flsm (Frank) said: Thanks very much. I did see that but because it was talking about roads_x as well, which I could not see, I was not game to give it a go. But I will try now. Cheers. Works like a charm, thanks. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miller745 Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 I don't have a control panel option with TE Central - it's greyed out? Will try the folder renaming. Edit: only roads and roads_x in the folder, no roads_t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 We have included the XML file for the control panel in the release announcement topic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trustdesa Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 On 12/9/2018 at 3:30 PM, John Venema said: We have included the XML file for the control panel in the release announcement topic: Fantastic John, couldn't see those "photo" roads any longer :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 12, 2018 Author Share Posted December 12, 2018 We are actually going to make them much darker for GB North to see if their impact is minimised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booga2 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Hi, I actually prefer the default roads, but the control panel won't let me select them for GB Central. Is there a fix for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booga2 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Still got this problem. I tick the “default roads” box and close the window, but it won’t save the setting. Can anyone help please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Hello, please delete all Orbx_B_GB_Central_TrueEarth_Overlay/roads_ folders and run verify files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booga2 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 That did it - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britfrog Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 thanks after much head scartching this did work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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