Tons of new screenshots

[strider1 584]

Why? Did you see some snow on the ground, have I missed a pic somewhere.......

I have an early beta of 10.2, lol....

[Simmo W 24]

wow, thanks for those shots Manuthie! very nice

[manuthie 242]

Some more ...Space Shuttle Orbiter:http://www.x-plane.c...huttle-orbiter/

Edited November 12, 2011 by Tom Allensworth
VIOLATION OF COPYRIGHT

[rojantrojan 17]

I'm stunned. Can't wait to try that blackbird. I love the heat haze too, that looks really cool.

[Tierborn 203]

Not trying to cause a problem, but why in this shot are the 3 houses on the left side half under ground?http://www.x-plane.c...burbs/f-4_9.jpg

hillside homes ...... I used to have a few in my West Virginia neighborhood years ago.

[Murmur 3,978]

Lets see FSX model a sinkhole!

Why do you keep constantly throwing out snarky remarks on MSFS? That's a bad thing for the atmosphere of this forum and irritates current MSFS users and prospective X-Plane buyers. What would you say if someone on the MSFS forums would constantly make snarky references to X-Plane compared to MSFS?Marco

[tkyler 88]

Not trying to cause a problem, but why in this shot are the 3 houses on the left side half under ground?

Hey Jim, These are all autogen placed and you can't get nail it for every home across the world. When you build autogen...you may build perhaps 1-2 hundred variations of residential homes for example....THEN you have to design those multiple hundred of homes to work on flat and hills because they're autotgen and autoplaced along OSM street data and also randomized and we're never sure which house gets put where. So then you design the houses with "deep" foundations to compensate for hill situations, but sometimes the land is such that it just can't make it....and in such a case, you have to live with the few homes that look funny so that another 2000 of them look great. I think a good example is like recreating a shape like say, the statue of liberty with lego bricks....you might say, "why is that look so blocky, that's not real?" ...and the answer is that we only have a limited number of pieces to represent a nearly unlimited set of circumstances so we're perfectly happy getting as close as we can with the pieces we have.-Tom Kyler

Why do you keep constantly throwing out snarky remarks on MSFS?

I agree, quit poking unnecessarily Goran, don't fuel the fire, you know there's some volatile personalities here that can't be put out. No need to compare, xplane population has grown with each release and it's not because we're out telling people how great it is....xplane speaks for itself and those who don't like it don't have to buy it.

[Fsau 0]

Looks really good, especially the airport shots. Much more impressed by these screenies than anything previous, they look a lot cleaner, shows how much a difference AA can make. Any performance figures?

[GoranM 3,815]

Why do you keep constantly throwing out snarky remarks on MSFS? That's a bad thing for the atmosphere of this forum and irritates current MSFS users and prospective X-Plane buyers. What would you say if someone on the MSFS forums would constantly make snarky references to X-Plane compared to MSFS?Marco

Marco, it's a joke. Do you know what a sinkhole is?

[GoranM 3,815]

I agree, quit poking unnecessarily Goran, don't fuel the fire, you know there's some volatile personalities here that can't be put out. No need to compare, xplane population has grown with each release and it's not because we're out telling people how great it is....xplane speaks for itself and those who don't like it don't have to buy it.

You got that right, Tom.

[h2egc 40]

Superb work Tom & Team!December is getting much closer...

[dm123 19]

very nice. Love the shuttle in particular. I do hope they get to improving the water a bit in the future, but it is ok now.

[JSkorna 138]

Thanks for the details to my posting.

[virtualstuff 773]

Hey Jim, These are all autogen placed and you can't get nail it for every home across the world. When you build autogen...you may build perhaps 1-2 hundred variations of residential homes for example....THEN you have to design those multiple hundred of homes to work on flat and hills because they're autotgen and autoplaced along OSM street data and also randomized and we're never sure which house gets put where. So then you design the houses with "deep" foundations to compensate for hill situations, but sometimes the land is such that it just can't make it....and in such a case, you have to live with the few homes that look funny so that another 2000 of them look great. I think a good example is like recreating a shape like say, the statue of liberty with lego bricks....you might say, "why is that look so blocky, that's not real?" ...and the answer is that we only have a limited number of pieces to represent a nearly unlimited set of circumstances so we're perfectly happy getting as close as we can with the pieces we have.-Tom KylerI agree, quit poking unnecessarily Goran, don't fuel the fire, you know there's some volatile personalities here that can't be put out. No need to compare, xplane population has grown with each release and it's not because we're out telling people how great it is....xplane speaks for itself and those who don't like it don't have to buy it.

Yes well said, almost reminds me on those useless immature discussions we had here in the past between FS9 and FSX lol