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Hurray! Early access! As a reward for seeing this post you get some download links! Below are links to my initial release of the South Island Ortho. Please test it out and report back on any major issues you have. If you can help seed the torrent that would be much appreciated.

NOTE: If you want the whole South Island you will need 120GB of HDD space! 262GB for the whole of New Zealand! (P.S It’s totally worth it)

Step 1: Download links

First, you will need the overlay folder:

yOverlay4XP_Overlays

Step 2: Ortho Scenery

Choose which area you want and download the scenery with your favourite torrent application.

Tasman (19GB): Lyndiman’s South Island Ortho Tasman

West Coast (32GB): Lyndiman’s South Island Ortho West Coast

Canterbury (32GB): Lyndiman’s South Island Ortho Canterbury

Otago (16GB): Lyndiman’s South Island Ortho Otago

Southland (26GB): Lyndiman’s South Island Ortho Southland

Step 4: Install into X-Plane

The Tasman pack will have a duplicate of -42+174 (Wellington). This is because that tile contains both the North and South Island. Please back up your previous -42+174 and copy over it with the South Island version. It contains both the North and South Island more accurately.

You will not need to do any conversions of JPG to DDS. Simply drop the yOverlay4XP folder and the zOrtho4XP folders into your X-Plane\Custom Scenery folder.

Step 5: Last step – edit your ini file

Load X-Plane and then immediate close it.

All of your new scenery will be added to your custom scenery.ini file.

Go to X-Plane\Custom Scenery and open the scenery_packs.ini file with a text editor.

Move the lines referring to your new Ortho to the bottom. Make sure the Overlays folder is at the top. (Add other overlays such as AlPilotX NZ Pro overlay if you want extra trees, buildings etc)

Make sure no other meshes are loading on top of the ortho, such as the NZ Pro Scenery (this would block the ortho)

My ini file looks like this:

<all the other mods here> ... SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zzz_new_zealand_overlay/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/yOrtho4XP_Overlays/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-35+172/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-35+173/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-36+173/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-36+174/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-37+173/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-37+174/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-37+175/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-38+174/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-38+175/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-38+176/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-38+177/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-38+178/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-39+174/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-39+175/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-39+176/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-39+177/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-39+178/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-40+173/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-40+174/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-40+175/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-40+176/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-40+177/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-41+172/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-41+174/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-41+175/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-41+176/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-42+171/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-42+172/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-42+173/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-42+174/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-42+175/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-42+176/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-43+173/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-43+172/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-43+171/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-44+171/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-44+170/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-44+169/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-43+170/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-44+172/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-44+173/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-45+168/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-45+167/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-45+169/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-45+170/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-45+171/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-46+166/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-46+167/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-46+168/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-46+169/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-46+170/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-47+166/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-47+167/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-47+168/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-47+169/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-47+170/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-48+167/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-48+168/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-41+173/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_-44+168/

Load X-Plane and enjoy!

NOTE: While I’ve edited thousands of images to put this together, it isn’t perfect. Some clouds may have slipped through and seams remain. If you find major issues, please let me know by commenting on this blog. If you can locate the bad image that would help, otherwise an accurate location on the map will do.

Beta 3 Patches:

A tiny tile needs some reworking. You can download the replacement images here. Replace the textures of the tile -41+173 with this patch Lake Rotoiti has reflections and artefacts over the water. You can patch the images with this small patch here. Copy over the textures in the tile -42+172 with these new images Cloud removal in the Tasman region and coast line adjustment around Picton Terrain patch for near Dunedin Missing scenery in Otago

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