Orbx

[Enhanced91_TTV]

Installed GB Central On FTX Central and got an error

Error custom scenery/orbx_C_GB_Central TrueEarth Orthos/terrain/a380xff50x17.ter Custom Scenery/Orbx_C_GB Central TrueEarth Orthos/terrain../textures/a380xff50x17.dds

Verified Files and had another 8GB Download and after loaded up XP11 And same problem!

[John W]

Have you made sure that your ORBX libraries are up to date? Sometimes you get an error if the library is not the latest. They recently updated the library.

[John W]

You could also log in to ORBXdirect and manually download the file and then in stall it from your hd.

[SurfinGremlin]

Quite a few people had to go through that sequence several times - verify, load, error, repeat. Each time the download shrank. I had the same issue. I think it took me 5 cycles or so. I suspect it was disk space related.

[Tom Johnson]

Make sure you have enough hard drive space, I had to run the verify a few times to get it working, you can also put Orbx on a different drive using symbolic links. I have mine on a different external hard drive, and it works great.

[Enhanced91_TTV]

Fixed! I'll put North and south on my 900GB Drive!

[Mysterious Drone]

How did you fixed it Enhanced91? I am having the same proble but I have plenty of disk space.

[Enhanced91_TTV]

You need enough space to install it even if it says installed you need like a 300GB for those three for the UK

[SurfinGremlin]

also if you are really stuck you can use symlinks to point to another drive. I'm doing this for all 3 and it's working well, including the new service pack.

[Mysterious Drone]

where can I get this symlinks?

[BigKangaroo3]

Symbolic Links (symlinks) are something you create using the command line. (Type cmd in the Search Bar and select 'Run as Administrator')

Creating symlinks allows both a saving of space and FTX Central 3 to think your files are located where it originally installed them. Creating shortcuts wouldn't allow this to happen (i.e the Not Installed message will appear above the region if you create shortcuts).

Syntax of the Symlink command;

mklink /d "Drive and folder FTX Central 3 installed the Orbx Scenery to" "Drive and folder you moved the ORBX scenery to"

Once FTX Central 3 has finished downloading, extracting and converting the files, you need to move the folders from your Xplane 11 Custom Scenery folder into your Storage folder of choice before creating the symlinks. (I open 2 Explorer WIndows to make it easier to see what is happening).

I found it useful to create the commands first in a saved text file and just paste them into the command line. eg see below;

mklink /d "S:\Steam\steamapps\common\X-Plane 11\Custom Scenery\Orbx_A_GB_South_TrueEarth_Custom" "H:\Storage\Games\Flight Simulators\X-Plane\Scenery\ORBX\Orbx_A_GB_South_TrueEarth_Custom"

mklink /d "S:\Steam\steamapps\common\X-Plane 11\Custom Scenery\Orbx_B_GB_South_TrueEarth_Overlay" "H:\Storage\Games\Flight Simulators\X-Plane\Scenery\ORBX\Orbx_B_GB_South_TrueEarth_Overlay"

mklink /d "S:\Steam\steamapps\common\X-Plane 11\Custom Scenery\Orbx_C_GB_South_TrueEarth_Orthos" "H:\Storage\Games\Flight Simulators\X-Plane\Scenery\ORBX\Orbx_C_GB_South_TrueEarth_Orthos"

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

[Mysterious Drone]

Here is a better idea, Move your entire custom scenery folder to another drive:

https://forum.thresholdx.net/topic/643-move-your-entire-custom-scenery-folder-to-another-drive/

[harryorlsen]

Easiest way to handle orbx files and to keep them up to date on a 2nd disk with enough free space:

https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/161262-install-uk-south-different-drive-to-x-plane/?do=findComment&comment=1420149

" 1. Create an empty folder on any drive, I have made D:\X Plane 11 but the name does not matter.

2. Copy X-Plane.exe into that folder.

3. Edit C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\x-plane_install_11.txt to add that folder as a location

under the last line.

In this example, add "D:\X Plane 11" and save.

4. Then create a folder inside the new folder named Custom Scenery and either copy your scenery_packs.ini

file into it or create a new scenery_packs.ini file using Notepad.

This is only to prevent an FTX Central error message when the installation is finished and is not needed by X Plane 11.



FTX Central will then see both and install to either. "

I also suggest not to delete the X-Plane.exe if you want to get future updates.

[SurfinGremlin]

I'd suggest the symlinks method is far easier and tidier, but that's a personal opinion.

I'm pretty sure I read that the next major revision of FTX Central will allow installation to a different drive a standard so hopefully these solutions won't be needed in the future.

[marcw]

Originally posted by harryorlsen:

Easiest way to handle orbx files and to keep them up to date on a 2nd disk with enough free space:

https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/161262-install-uk-south-different-drive-to-x-plane/?do=findComment&comment=1420149

" 1. Create an empty folder on any drive, I have made D:\X Plane 11 but the name does not matter.

2. Copy X-Plane.exe into that folder.

3. Edit C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\x-plane_install_11.txt to add that folder as a location

under the last line.

In this example, add "D:\X Plane 11" and save.

4. Then create a folder inside the new folder named Custom Scenery and either copy your scenery_packs.ini

file into it or create a new scenery_packs.ini file using Notepad.

This is only to prevent an FTX Central error message when the installation is finished and is not needed by X Plane 11.



FTX Central will then see both and install to either. "

I also suggest not to delete the X-Plane.exe if you want to get future updates.

You lost me after EASIEST ...

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by mnwpro3:

You lost me after EASIEST ...

You quoted an old post. Central makes it very easy to link stuff up now. Simply make an Orbx Library on the drive you desire and when you install scenery it will ask if you want to install it into your sim or the library.