Question How do I install these addons?

[killerclick]

cloudmicrotex.wmv
anothersuntexture.wmv
contrailtex.wmv
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Also, how do I install Earth texture addons? What are these level 9 level 14 things? Why can't there be just one Earth Texture Pack.msi and I just double-click and it's done?

 

[orb]

Are you sure those files have .wmv extensions? They shouldn't. Those should be either .zip or .rar archives.

You install Earth textures like other add-ons, so by extracting files from the archive to Orbiter's root folder with preserving directory structure of the archive. Windows should be able to open that file with Earth textures, and then you only drag contents from the opened archive to root folder of Orbiter. Levels 9-14 are high resolution textures. The higher level number, the higher resolution of planet's surface, but a larger file size too.

There is no .msi installer for textures, because using compressed archives to install them is just faster, installer would leave another "uninstall" entry in the system, there are alternative textures you can choose from, you can choose in any case exactly which files you only want to copy from the archive, and this is the preferred method for redistributing them.

 

[killerclick]

Are you sure those files have .wmv extensions? They shouldn't. Those should be either .zip or .rar archives.

Thanks, I don't know why they had the wmv extensions. :facepalm:

As for the Earth textures, what's confusing me is that I don't know what levels are, do I need all levels of textures for best graphics or just the highest level? An installer with options and explanations would be nice like for UMMU and Orbiter Sound.

 

[Lucy]

Levels are simple things. The higher, the more detailed. Orbiter supports up to level 14 textures, but a full-planet level 14 texture would be massive in disk size, so the textures are usually level 11 global and level 14 around KSC. That download is on the mirror sites listed elsewhere, as are installation instructions.

I really would suggest you read the included documentation with addons. It will answer so many of your questions.

 

[orb]

To use levels 9-14, you need to have level 8 textures installed as well, and they are included for Earth in the Orbiter by default. Those level 14 textures already include levels 9-13 in the file, like level 8 textures include also levels 1-7, so you don't need other files to have those intermediate levels. Level 8 is required for higher levels to appear, and then you only choose what the highest level you want, by installing that level textures.

As for these level 11 Earth + level 14 Florida high resolution textures, they are an optional part of the Orbiter distribution, distributed as additional download, and not as an add-on, so I don't think they need any other, more detailed description than they already have, and I think the name of archive file tells everything what is needed, to identify what that archive contains.