So does it now have the correct variable slope?
FYI, Thomas Rasmussen has a couple of videos listing a bunch of prebuilt Orthophoto scenery. Hard drive manufacturers rejoice.
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Nah Iâve just placed the runway in the right spot on the mesh.
The Lukla scenery that @TheAlmightySnark linked does have the variable slope.
But the description makes it very clear that it is not compatible with HD mesh.
I love my orthophotos with high-res mesh, and havenât installed all of the object libraries yet so canât give it a quick whirl.
If someone can try what the scenery is like with Ortho4XP, Iâd love to hear from them.
Having landed there (as a passenger), I donât recall it being all that far off the crazy crooked shot. 
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Did you trek around that area? Itâs on my bucket listâŠ
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Yeah, come on - story time! 
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Well kids it was long ago when I had lots of hair and my daughter was resting comfortably in her mommyâs tummy in Japan. Two friends with some mountaineering experience came up with a plan to climb Labuje East (at peak not far from Everest of about 21000 feet). It could be climbed without rope but we had opted for the much safer option of Sherpa and expedition support and fixed ropes. We hiked for several days until arriving at Gokyo where I got really sick. I hiked across Ngozumpa glacier anyway and I really thought I was going to die. And I would have had the heroic Mr. Gorjee Sherpa not walked my sorry a$$ all the way back to Namche Bazaar but not before I had written a twenty page goodbye letter to my wife.
Yes I was being a little overly dramatic at the time. I have a very low tolerance for suffering. GO! I donât possess the English to describe it. You donât need to climb a mountain. Just do the hike from Lukla to Namche and back and you will have visions of beauty and majesty that little else on this planet that I have experienced will equal. Continue to Gokyo and hike up Gokyo-ri (18000 feet IIRC). I am so grateful that I at least was able to do that despite puking and worse much of the way up. From the rocky peak you will have an amazing view of Cho Oyu in Tibet and Everest. By the way, my friends did make it up Labuje and said that the experience was breathtaking (perhaps literally).
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Quick question - Iâm dipping my toe into Ortho4XP, but with the premade stuffâŠand Iâm just about to try (again) the step where I convert the JPG files to DDS files using the batch utility. With a 1080âŠshould I be using my GPU to accomplish this or my CPU or a blend of the two? When I tried this earlierâŠit appeared when I split the duty 50/50 that my GPU smoked the CPU but I donât really know what I was looking at.
These are the pre-made orthos Iâm going to try: US Orthophotos - Scenery Packages (v11,v 10, v9) - X-Plane.Org Forum
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GPU all the way - itâs like those DDSâs are mini bitcoins⊠
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Wow, that prebuilt area coverage has really grown since I last looked!
More info for that here:
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YouâŠare correct SirâŠ! I finally read theâŠuhâŠreadme:
If you have latest AMD GPU or 10th series of GeForce (1050,1060 and higher) convert2dds_by_GPU.bat is recommended
If you have very powerfull CPU like AMD Ryzen or i7 over 4.5 Ghz and Radeon GPU or older series of Geforce (750,950)
try both bat files first with one texture in separate directories for test and see which performs better
If its run slow make sure no other processes is affecting perfomance and check CPU affinity for texconv.exe,
should be selected for all CPU cores (use ProcessLasso for it for example)
Generaly GPU performs faster.
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YesâŠ! Looks like Iâm gonna have to thread the needle and fly though the Mid West⊠LOLâŠ
Yeah, I must have just missed the Mid West addition LOL. Working my way West⊠before all we are flying is naval ops 
WowâŠholy cowâŠ75GB for just the South area there after decompression. GulpâŠI donât know if an SSD would cut itâŠ
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Is a hybrid SSD/plate drive a good compromise for these file sizes� Or will my performance suffer significantly?
Iâve not tried it with a spinny but it should be ok to at least try. You can hardlink back to a SSD if it pauses a lot.
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I bought a 1 TB SSD drive for less than $300 solely for X-Plane11 and ortho photos. I use OvGME as a mod enabler, and keep my mods for all of the different sims on a 3 TB USB3 HDD. Win 10 is on annother 1 TB SDD. With the following ortho photo areas enabled, my X-Plane SDD is sitting at 653 GB:
yOrtho4XP_Overlays/
zArizona_2015_1m/
zCalifornia_v4/
zColorado_2015_1m/
zKansas_2015_1m/
zOregon_2016_1m/
zSoutheast_20171m/
zUtah_2016_1m/
zWashington_2015_1m/
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Iâm assuming there isnât any good ortho scenery for Christmas Island?
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Is there any good scenery at all for Christmas Island?