Textures Antelope Valley high-res scenery pack

[4throck]

You can try to track down orthos from the 1980's. Even if black and white, you can merge that with newer color (LRGB processing). I can help there if needed

The same problem happens with the Apollo landing sites. The present cm resolution images have the astronaut tracks on them....

It has some logic that historical situations should be handled by add-ons and not stock Orbiter, BUT there's a Shuttle on the stock Orbiter so...

 

[sputnik]

The aerial orthoimages I used for texturing the Edwards area are from 2014. I guess the lakebed runway markings and compass rose have faded since the shuttle era. Are the lakebed runways currently in use?

Not sure how to fix this other than re-painting the markings by hand. Which could end up looking fake.

They get re-done (it's road tar) every once in a while; it's just luck of the draw to find a set of images that are both recent and have recent re-marking.

I agree; it would be nice to have more distinct markings, but "fixing" this is liable to be more work than it's worth, AND has a risk of looking bad too.

 

[pappy2]

Hello everyone,
I just downloaded it, but I can not extract the files to install them on my ORBITER 2016.

I use 7.zip
But I have the following error message:

Have you ever had this problem ?

 

[Ripley]

Corrupt download?

 

[pappy2]

Hello "Ripley"

I downloaded several times, but without success.

Every time I can not extract the file.

 

[turtle91]

I have downloaded the file about 2 days ago (Europe Mirror 1).
My link is really bad, but the downloaded file works fine for me (in my case the download took about 5 hours with "stops and go").

However, you could check the downloaded file's MD5 checksum, as explained by Martin here:
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/mirrors/orbiter_radio/help.html#tex_install

Another idea, but I don't think it helps:
What kind of filesystem are you using ? NTFS ? Fat32 ?

This should be not an issue with this file, because I don't think it has any files larger than 2 GB within the archive.
But just for testing, I would make sure to extract the archive from NTFS to NTFS filesystem. (i.e. external USB disks are still formatted with Fat32 (for compatibility reasons)).

 

[pappy2]

Hello "turtle91"

I download from "Europe Mirror 1" and I put about 20 minutes to download the file is its size (846816250) is identical to that given on the site.
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/mirrors/orbiter_radio/tex_mirror.html

There is no link "torrent" so I download in "http"

I do not understand.

 

[turtle91]

I used HTTP, too.
The reason for the very low download-speed is on my side (my poor 3G internet connection).
I just wanted to show, that the file on the server seems to be ok. So the problem must be on your side.

MD5-checksum is a way to test the integrity of a file(..or "data" in general....).
You can download the MD5-tool here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb...-the-file-checksum-integrity-verifier-utility

The tool should show the exact same MD5-sum, as showed at Martin's download-page for this package. (0e51845ebf66c4ca81e13c3f78a626fd)
If the sum is different, you have a corrupt file (even if file-size might be the same, but the contents are different...corrupted).

However, you mentioned it allready, but make 100 precent sure, that you really use 7zip.
I.e. if I try to extact the file using RAR, I got the same errors.

But as a first quick check, I would use the MD5-tool to make sure, that the downloaded file is ok.

So after downloading the tool (fciv.exe), all you need todo is just run on the command-line(cmd.exe):

"fciv.exe antelope_scn.zip"

The output should show the correct MD5-sum of: 0e51845ebf66c4ca81e13c3f78a626fd

 

[sputnik]

The aerial orthoimages I used for texturing the Edwards area are from 2014. I guess the lakebed runway markings and compass rose have faded since the shuttle era. Are the lakebed runways currently in use?

Not sure how to fix this other than re-painting the markings by hand. Which could end up looking fake.

Looking at Google Earth historical imagery, it looks like the lakebed markings were washed out in Oct 2012 and redone in Sep 2015. Any imagery from then or later should be much, much better.

 

[Ripley]

...It may be picked up by the other mirrors shortly...

Just a heads-up to say it didn't (yet).

Clicking on "Download" from the Homepage one has 4 mirrors available.
Of those 4, only 2 have HiRes textures, but there's no link to Antelope Valley.

So, either one knows the link
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/mirrors/orbiter_radio/tex_mirror.html

or he/she can't download those textures.

 

[pappy2]

Hello everyone,
That's it I settled my problem !:idea:

In fact I have reinstalled a recent version of 7.zip and now everything is OK :thumbup:
I can open the folder to extract the files.

Thank you all for your help and your answers

See you soon
And thank you :tiphat:

 

[Urwumpe]

In fact I have reinstalled a recent version of 7.zip and now everything is OK :thumbup:

Of course, also make sure you downloaded the file from a reliable source, there are quite a few alternative distributions around, that could not be working at all or even be harmful.

AFAIR, the internals of 7-zip did not change much over the past 5 years.

 

[pappy2]

I downloaded here

http://www.01net.com/telecharger/windows/Utilitaire/compression_et_decompression/fiches/4035.html

I hope everything is OK

 

[Urwumpe]

I downloaded here

http://www.01net.com/telecharger/windows/Utilitaire/compression_et_decompression/fiches/4035.html

I hope everything is OK

No idea, I don't know this domain. But I prefer getting such software from an official website:

http://www.7-zip.org/

 

[DaveS]

I downloaded here

http://www.01net.com/telecharger/windows/Utilitaire/compression_et_decompression/fiches/4035.html

I hope everything is OK

You should always download software from its official website like this one for 7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/. Downloading software from other sources opens you up to downloading software with hidden payloads (IE malware). So stay away from "collection websites" as they could unknowingly be hosting infected files.

 

[pappy2]

Thank you for the advice: ALWAYS THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE I would remember

It is ADDON is REDOUTABLE