Nosferatu Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Would Ortho XP11 US Washington under True Earth Washington in the scenery packs allow me to extend the Washington area to ORBX KVUO? Can they work together? I’m referring to the freeware here: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/36327-us-orthophotos/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Yes they'll work fine as long as the ortho layer for Washington is placed above this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 Great! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 Sorry, another question: File size after conversion is huge. Using TE Washington renders most of these ortho rendundant. If I wanted to just keep the ortho that covers the non TE Washington regions, what would I keep and delete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauricecohen Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 5 hours ago, tonywob said: Yes they'll work fine as long as the ortho layer for Washington is placed above this The Forkboy2 Oregon orthos cover KVUO, so "they" refers to the "US othophotos," not just the WA ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzfunk Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Hi, My questions is similar. I currently use ORTH4XP generated tiles but wish to remove them to save space and just use the TE Washington tiles. Is there a list of tiles that I can reference to remove the ones I do not need from my ORTH4XP library. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 I asked this question before Washington was released as I have all Forkboy's orthos too. The reply was to the effect that it would be obvious once I had the product! Make what you will of that. Perhaps someone will now give a sensible answer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulfstreamtwo Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Page 8 of the user guide shows the coverage area. Since all ortho tiles in XP cover 1 degree by 1 degree of latitude/longitude, it should be easy to find the tile to exclude. Google Earth will help with finding the corners if you're uncertain. Here's a .kmz for the initial POIs from the topic below that should help you zero in on the relevant lat/long: TEUSA WASHINGTON (Suggested POIs).kmz Note the tiles in NW Washington aren't outlined but that shouldn't be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 I think you will find the answer in the TE Washington/Ortho/Earth nav data folder. Open each of the 2 files in there, +40-120 and +40-130. In those files will be the dsf files that you can then check if you have duplicated in your Ortho from Forkboy or Orth4xp. Then remove the Forkboy/Orth4xp copies to a safe area in case you need/want to replace them and you should now have no duplication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 8 minutes ago, jjaycee1 said: I think you will find the answer in the TE Washington/Ortho/Earth nav data folder. Open each of the 2 files in there, +40-120 and +40-130. In those files will be the dsf files that you can then check if you have duplicated in your Ortho from Forkboy or Orth4xp. Then remove the Forkboy/Orth4xp copies to a safe area in case you need/want to replace them and you should now have no duplication. Brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzfunk Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Thank you for all of the suggestions. My issue is that I need to make space before I can install TE Washington, hence the request for the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 5 hours ago, mauricecohen said: The Forkboy2 Oregon orthos cover KVUO, so "they" refers to the "US othophotos," not just the WA ones. Eureka! Wondering why no ortho after I installed and loaded KVUO. Wrong State!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 2 hours ago, jjaycee1 said: I think you will find the answer in the TE Washington/Ortho/Earth nav data folder. Open each of the 2 files in there, +40-120 and +40-130. In those files will be the dsf files that you can then check if you have duplicated in your Ortho from Forkboy or Orth4xp. Then remove the Forkboy/Orth4xp copies to a safe area in case you need/want to replace them and you should now have no duplication. Thanks, but I have a question or two. So we delete the duplicate dds files from X-Plane 11\Custom Scenery\z_ortho_Washington_v6a\Earth nav data. However, how about the texture files in X-Plane 11\Custom Scenery\z_ortho_Washington_v6a\textures. How do we know which ones to remove? Don't they have all the weight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauricecohen Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 I am confident that you will find that there is no Forkboy2 WA orthos dsf file that is not also covered by TE WA and hence that you can delete all of the Forkboy2 WA. I will verify that this evening (UTC -6) and confirm. (I have no space problem, so just placed them lower in the .ini scenery file) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted July 4, 2019 Author Share Posted July 4, 2019 Yes...my mistake. I switched to Oregon. The ortho certainly livens up the Portland area around KVUO and seems to blend quite well with TE ORBX. I took a flight up to Mt. St Helens on a gorgeous sunny morning (July 1st, with ASWXP and Ultra weather in VR). Only issue was the frame rates when leaving Portland. I imagine it’s the different scenery and lack of optimisation, as no such problems in TE Washington regions and cities. Anyway, the ORBX scenery around St. Helens is EYE-DROPPING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauricecohen Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 I have now compared the coverage of the Forkboy2 WA orthos and the ones in TE_WA and I was wrong (but not by much): there are 3 dsf files in the Forkboy WA that are not in TE_WA - +46-117.dsf, +47-117.dsf and +48-117; these cover a very thin vertical strip of Washington on its eastern edge and a large vertical strip of Idaho on its north-western edge. The thin vertical strip of the eastern edge of Washington is missing in the TE_WA. On the other hand, TE_WA has 3 dsf files that are not covered in the Forkboy2 WA orthos (+45-120.dsf, +45-121.dsf, +45-122.dsf), they are, however covered in the Forkboy2 Oregon orthos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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