X-Plane California Complete Photoreal Scenery

FYI, this photo-real data set stops at -115°, so the SE part of the state (Blythe, Colorado River, Needles, etc.) are not covered. I found this out when I tried to make a loop flight around the Turtle Mountains and realized the photo scenery ended and X-Plane's default scenery took over.

Much of the rest of the state is well covered, and looks great.

Great package, nice to see the world as it really appears;)

I followed the recommendation by the author and downloaded "the HD Mesh v4 from AlpilotX" to match this area as well.

Is there something I need to remove from the original "X-Plane California Complete Photoreal Scenery" files/folders since I have the HD mesh files? Looking at the file and folder names there seems to be some duplication or overlap but those files exist in both .

Thanks

Here is a copy of the end of my scenery_packs.ini file if that helps.

...
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - Sydney/
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - Washington DC/
SCENERY_PACK *GLOBAL_AIRPORTS*
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/yOrtho4XP_Overlays/
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/z_ortho_California_v5/
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zzz_hd_global_scenery4/

Beautiful scenery but it's missing some things that the instructions say is in the package. It says these four folders are in the package:

• yOrtho4XP_Overlays_XP11
• yOrtho4XP_Overlays_XP10
• yOrtho4XP_Overlays_HDv4
• yOrtho4XP_Overlays_HDv3

But those folders don't exist, there's only one folder besides the photoscenery and that is just called yOrtho4XP_Overlays_v3.

I am really confused, what happened to v4 the overlays? And is the v3 overlay folder contained in the package standard or HD? It doesn't say. I appreciate the efforts of people to make these beautiful scenery packages for free but please at least update your instructions so it's not so confusing.

Hi, can you please check out KSAN RWY 27 there are a lot of small hills on the runway. Alternatively, give me the name of the file with those specific coordinates to remove it from the scenery

Lots of buildings missing in the San Francisco area using V5 on the MacBook M1. Help? I've tried positioning the scenery .ini in different orders and nothing.

Would love to download this but 126.26 GB?!!! That would take me at least 6 days! Be nice if it was in smaller bits, like about 7GB @.

I love it! It looks beautiful. Death Valley looks so much more real than in MSFS. Well worth the download and disk space. It brings California to life!

Can FlyAwaySim please offer a better explanation of the install steps? The readme.txt is not clear.

There are 3 folders after the unzip, please explain exactly what to do with them. What is "HD Mesh Scenery v4 enabled by default. HD Mesh V3 also included for XP10 users (rename yOrtho4XP_Overlays_v3 folder to yOrtho4XP_Overlays)", written above on this page, supposed to mean?

Is that some indication on how to install into the Custom Scenery Folder? Not clear.

If you have the hardware (GPU, CPU, Mem, Disk) go for it!!

Hi, can this be installed on a Mac computer?

I had downloaded the SF area earlier and was very impressed with it. But adding the entire state California with its massive file size didn't impress me at all. Maybe I didn't do something right. Any thoughts?

Well, it finally downloaded, unzipped and installed. I am missing buildings at SFO and other airports - however, San Francisco downtown looks good.

The Golden Gate and Bay Bridge are multi-lane raised roads. I cannot find the SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/yOrtho4XP_Overlays/_XP-11. I do find the file without the _XP-11. Do we have a HELP source or forum for this package?

Appears, at 20% unzipped to be strictly ZL 16. i hope im wrong...8 hours hence will tell the story when I wake up and see an answer to my Everything search templates, “*_*_NAIP17.dds”,”*_*_NAIP17.dds,””*_*.dds” ...8 hours later, i find,

ZL Num Files 16 - . 4,597 17 - 11,419 18 - 0 19 - 0

a huge undertaking...Can’t wait to link to it! ....anyone have symbolic link commands for this scenery?

huge-thanks!, Chas

I already built ZL16 Socal, but this may fill in my gaps...though my Aerodromes were all done at ZL 19 5KM radius. we shall see how it stands up to mine, 8 hours of unzipping/sleeping, hence.

Chas

I'm slightly confused. I see 3 folders. Yortho4xp overlays and overlays v3. Also z Ortho California. What do I do with both y's? Do I add both?