Ortho Overlays

[jerdawg]

Hello Pilots,
I have some questions I hope somone can answer here.
I have created alot of Ortho tiles and used Xplane Global Scenery as my overlay.
I have recently done some reading up on alpilotx HD Mesh Scenery v3 and I am understanding this is much better then the original Xplane Global Scenery.
Here are my questions:
1. What does the overlay actually do? Does it create the textures for the Mountains, valleys, while also planting down the streets, buildings, houses, traffic, etc?
2. If I want to use the HD Mesh Scenery v3 by alpilotx do I have to go and rebuild all my tiles over again using the new overlay?
3. I downloaded all needed alpilotx Nav Data from where all my tiles are and placed a folder at the bottom of my custom scenery files which is named zzz_hd_global_scenery3 . Will this overide all my ortho tiles with the default global scenery?
4. If it doesn't overwrite the original global scenery do you have to totally take those original xplane files out of the custom scenery folders?
Somewhat confused and I hope one of you can guide me in the right direction.
Thanks for your time!

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1. AFAIK, it increases the mesh resolution (improves terrain data) and positions autogen objects much more accurately. I've noticed at one heliport, buildings no longer invade the area, and are actually placed where they are in real life.

2. Nope.

3. You have to put HD Mesh V3 right at the bottom of scenery_packs.ini.

4. Nope.

[PvWolf666]

As far as I know, Ortho downloads its own mesh points, so the ortho will overwrite the HD Mesh anyhow. I may be wrong though. I ditched mine as I have Ortho covering most of America and all of the UK. I do plan on covering europe also

[jerdawg]

hmmmm....it sounds like Draco's comments are the absolute reversal of PVwolf.

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jerdawg の投稿を引用：

hmmmm....it sounds like Draco's comments are the absolute reversal of PVwolf.

I’m not sure whose right. I suspect PvWolf666 is though, because it is true that Ortho4XP does generate its own mesh.

Therefore, you have to tick the option in the Earth Tile Map that says skip mesh download or something like that.

[Kosmozuikis]

HD mesh is outdated, it's very inaccurate, i tried it and it looked worse than default XP11, can't even draw lakes and ponds accurately. HD mesh and ortho overrides each other depending from the order in scenerypacks.ini so you can use only one.
Just use ortho + w2xp.

[jerdawg]

Is w2xp based more for europe? I'm mainly doing my tiles right now in North America.

[Kosmozuikis]

jerdawg の投稿を引用：

Is w2xp based more for europe? I'm mainly doing my tiles right now in North America.

Worldwide. You can choose wanted area here http://extract.bbbike.org/ or here http://download.geofabrik.de/ by hand and build the overlay.

[18k iron sights]

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Kosmozuikis の投稿を引用：

HD mesh is outdated, it's very inaccurate, i tried it and it looked worse than default XP11, can't even draw lakes and ponds accurately. HD mesh and ortho overrides each other depending from the order in scenerypacks.ini so you can use only one.
Just use ortho + w2xp.

It is good for X-plane 10. For X-plane 11 i see no benefit, its default mesh is incredible.