OrthoStreamXP user guide

OrthoStreamXP adds real-world aerial photos to your X-Plane 12 scenery while you fly. It downloads the pictures for the area around your aircraft, turns them into X-Plane textures, and keeps them on your disk for your next flight.

Contents

1. Installation: what you need and how to install it.
2. First setup: the six-step setup that runs the first time you open OrthoStreamXP.
3. Flying: the start order, the Home page, and the report you get after each flight.
4. Settings: quality and ground detail, folders, downloads, colours, seasons and exposure, night lights and photos at night.
5. Cache: how much disk space the scenery uses and how to free it.
6. Packages: downloading the ground mesh of a whole region, the quickest way to get scenery packages.
7. Troubleshooting: common problems, the log, updates, uninstalling and reporting a bug.
8. Questions and answers: what OrthoStreamXP does and does not do, choosing the packages folder, switching from AutoOrtho.

The short version

1. Install WinFsp, then OrthoStreamXP, then restart your computer.
2. Open OrthoStreamXP and finish the setup: X-Plane folder, scenery packages (download a region there, or choose the folder of your own), cache folder, quality.
3. Every time you fly, click Start and fly in OrthoStreamXP. It starts the scenery first and then X-Plane.
4. Load a flight. A new area takes a few minutes the first time; after that it comes from the cache.

Remember: start OrthoStreamXP before X-Plane. X-Plane looks for scenery only when it starts.