millingp Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Orbx TE GB North Transaction ID is 5c523c42c5801 Hi Guys I'm a great fan of Orbx scenery having purchased most of the scenery for FSX/P3D. I have now moved to X-Plane and will never go back to the others! I've purchased TE GB South, GB Central and in the past few days GB North. They are just amazing and you guys are to be congratulated!!! I live in Northern Ireland and I'm a real pilot (PPL/IR) and my home airport is Newtownards (EGAD). I fly a C172 around Ireland and the UK. When not actually up in the air for real, I keep my hand in with X-Plane. Having installed TE GB North and flown around Scotland for a while, I was astounded when I re-positioned back at EGAD and found a totally different world. TE GB North seems to have spread itself partially across the Irish Sea into Northern Ireland. While this may be a taster of what's to come (maybe TE Northern Ireland and TE Ireland??), it does pose a few problems.... a) Its only partial and creates a prominent diagonal separation line between TE terrain and the default terrain - see NIR 1 and 2 below. b) The terrain colours are an extremely dark representation of grass - not the same a TE North, Central or South. In addition there are quite a lot of what looks like scorched (light brown) fields - particularly around my home airfield - see NIR 3. Ireland is the 'Emerald Isle' for obvious reasons! Don't get me wrong. I think TE GB North, South and Central are just amazing, but I'd prefer to go back to default Northern Ireland scenery until, hopefully, Orbx TE Northern Ireland becomes a reality. Is there any way that the partial coverage of Northern Ireland can be switched off from TE GB North? PS - if your looking for a Beta Tester for TE Northern Ireland and TE Ireland - I'm your man!! Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Hello, apparently there is not, I do not think that is was something that would have happened if it could be avoided. I think that to disable the intrusion into the island would also disable a larger part of Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Oscar Pilote (creator of Ortho4XP) has done some YouTube videos showing exacty how this problem can be averted by editing and substituting individual tiles. Maybe ORBX can "reach out" or view his videos and then re-work the imagery? However it is one hell of a lotta work and I wouldn't envy them the task! I'd do it myself but it's way above my pay grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 This is due to the 1x1 tile limit in X-Plane, it's either we include these sections of NI, or we miss out some sections of Scotland. It's a little annoying and not particularly easy to work around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 The bits you would lose are shown in the 2 pics below. There are only 2 tiles that encroach on Northern Ireland and they are shown as enclosed in the yellow rectangles in the pics. The reference points for Lon/Lat are under the heading of Active Tile. There is the option available to Ortho4XP the rest of NI with ZL16/17 and Overlay which would make it less contrasting but may have colour matching anomalies etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millingp Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 Thanks for the prompt reply guys and particularly to jjaycee1 who by kindly providing the tile references allowed me to disable those tiles in the TE GB North Orthos and Overlays which seems to have cured the problem. Cost is the loss of some very small parts of Scotland. Added benefit is, the buildings that Orbx had placed in and around Belfast are retained. Its a win-win!! Many Thanks Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millingp Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 Further update to this since February. Thanks to @Jon Clarke I've become a real fan of Ortho4XP and have done the whole of Ireland (North and South) plus some other areas in Europe not (yet?) covered by Orbx TE. Absolutely wonderful now!! Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilmac Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Hi Millingp just came across you post. I also have the issue in pic 1 and would be interested in hearing how you did the Ortho4XP for the whole of Ireland. I tried using Ortho but keep getting issues. I get the same frustration flying over Belfast lough to Aldergrove and get the big line where TE North ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Although this is not an Orbx support question, I can assist as a private user of ortho4xp. The most helpful thing I can do is direct you to an extremely good link on exactly the steps you need to adopt to use the Orho4xp tool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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