P3D v5 Ortho4XP using USGS imagery

[crushnik]

Does anyone know if it is possible to use USGS imagery in Ortho4XP? I tried Bing imagery in Florida and Hawaii but there was a lot of clouds.

I have a custom process that I use for scenery that works great everywhere but Florida where all the sand turns everything way too white. Thought maybe there was a way to use Ortho4XP (for P3D) instead and have better results and be able to produce larger areas of scenery at once.

Follow-up question: If I can't have the program fetch the imagery, would it be possible to download USGS tiles and have Ortho4XP stitch them together?

 

[bernb]

You could maybe search here :

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ortho4xp+fsx

Helped me when I made scenery for my local area. However FSX and earlier versions of P3d had wrong scenery which caused vehicles to drive under scenery created by Ortho4xp and over water etc. Also they did not follow the roads. This was corrected in p3dv4 which has more accurate scenery.

 

[crushnik]

It seems that you're stuck with the sources Ortho4XP has to choose from. But is there a way to process scenery with a beach in such a way that the sand doesn't overpower the rest of the scenery? I've made scenery for different parts of the country and I have had great results with USGS orthoimagery except for Florida. It looks way too overexposed like in this example from TMFViewer.

 

[kjjj11223344]

What’s the link for USGS. I could try to create a .lay file and send it to you.

By the way, I ported ortho4xp to p3d. I’ve also added automatic water masking to FSEarthtiles. Highly recommend to use fsearthtiles over ortho4xp for p3d . I’ve also added .lay provider support (same provider files ortho4xp uses) in fsearthtiles.

 

[crushnik]

What’s the link for USGS. I could try to create a .lay file and send it to you.

By the way, I ported ortho4xp to p3d. I’ve also added automatic water masking to FSEarthtiles. Highly recommend to use fsearthtiles over ortho4xp for p3d . I’ve also added .lay provider support (same provider files ortho4xp uses) in fsearthtiles.

https://basemap.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/USGSImageryOnly/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}

Could that be what you're looking for? Thanks!

 

[crushnik]

Actually it looks like there is a .LAY file in the FSEarthTiles. What I don't know is how to use that imagery data instead of Virtual Earth, Google, Bing, etc. to make scenery.

 

[kjjj11223344]

Actually it looks like there is a .LAY file in the FSEarthTiles. What I don't know is how to use that imagery data instead of Virtual Earth, Google, Bing, etc. to make scenery.

Edit the file with Notepad. Change the line "in_GUI=False" to "in_GUI=True". Should work, I just tested it.

This file is also in Ortho4XP_FSX_P3D, but as I said, highly recommend using FSEarthTiles instead of Ortho4XP_FSX_P3D .

 

[crushnik]

Thanks!

 

[crushnik]

Edit the file with Notepad. Change the line "in_GUI=False" to "in_GUI=True". Should work, I just tested it.

This file is also in Ortho4XP_FSX_P3D, but as I said, highly recommend using FSEarthTiles instead of Ortho4XP_FSX_P3D .

Finally have FSEarthTiles figured out. That's a pretty incredible program!

 

[crushnik]

After a lot of experimenting I still prefer the USGS imagery. Others look better in spots, but USGS data is consistent and the shadows aren't overpowering in rugged terrain.But the USGS tile server is very very slow. I can manually download jp2 files pretty quickly though, so is there a way to import images into FSEarthTiles?