http://wiki.x-plane.com/Beta#Release_Notes Rob

Just looking around seatle just outside of KSEA, it looks like lots of new stuff. I don't remember what was already there, but this is what I think is new so far.

 

Trailer parks

 

Gas Stations

 

Older style homes

 

Misc

 

Be curious to see before and after shots of what's improved.

There is alot of new autogen ! It looks good ! but there are houses where apartments should be, there are office buildings where factories should be, etc......

 

Laminar should come up with some tools to designate arias as residential, commerical, industrial, etc....

It does look good overall and does not seem to hinder my frame rate which is great. However, In my neck of the woods, (NY) thee are big high rise buildings where there should be mostly suburbs etc. I flew from JFK out to eastern LI and there were a lot more tall buildings then there should be for that area. but it did thin out as I went further east, which is good, so overall, Im happy but the land class or whatever its called in X-plane needs some tweaking. My house is now a trailer park! lol The Harrier looks great! BTW Rob

Laminar should come up with some tools to designate arias as residential, commerical, industrial, etc....

 

Well, these are designations that are only rarly given in Open Street Map. I don't know if the current version of the OpenStreetMap data really used such tags, but the US data set that X-Plane 10 currently uses was extremly limited..

XPlane 10 is getting better all the time. Those houses actually look like houses. I wonder where it will be in another year =).

Please, remember one thing: X-Plane does NOT know how YOUR neighborhood exactly looks ... so, of course, it will usually not be a prefect representation of reality, just more like a plausible city ... Think this way: of course, you might not like the few cities you know well from real life, but you might be fine with the other 99,9231% (of all cities on the planet), because you don't know them in detail, and accept, that they "might" look like the way they do (thats called "plausible"). All of this is autogen (automaitcally generated!) and not by hand (like scenery, which is done manually, where someone knows where to place what type of buildings).

 

Still, the scenery generation is not done entirely out of "thin air" ... but with a lot of geodata (in this case landuse / landclass data), which gives a generalized classification of "what might be" in a given place. This is good enough for plausibility, but not always a perfect representation of reality. Sometimes the data is outdated, sometimes its not detailed enough to capture the small, local variations, sometimes it does not have all the classes you would need and we need to come up with some heuristic approximation (many datasets don't know about industry/ residential differentiation ... or useful urban densities). So, its almost like a complex science whit often too many "unknowns" which unavoidably results in not perfect representation of reality (but I repeat: it just tries to be halfway plausible .. which again can be very relative ).

 

For backgrounds, read this link (man, I post this the n-th time for sure ... but maybe, someone reads it sometimes :rolleyes: ):

http://xsimreviews.com/2011/12/10/developer-interview-andras-fabian-mr-x-terrain/

It sure looks nice. Every increase in variation is much appreciated. Please post more screenshots since I am not at home this entire week and cant check for myself ^_^.

Great!! Thx for thr info Rob,Ihe pics look great. :smile:

Been holding back updating, but you guys have me curious.

I'm on a complete hold until, at least, 10.30.... Total blackout until then :-)

Please, remember one thing: X-Plane does NOT know how YOUR neighborhood exactly looks ... so, of course, it will usually not be a prefect representation of reality, just more like a plausible city ... Think this way: of course, you might not like the few cities you know well from real life, but you might be fine with the other 99,9231%

 

I will load it back up once somebody puts together a North American Airport pack from the best of user generated airport scenery, I only fly using Air Hauler, so it will send you to airports that you can't possibly foresee installing scenery for. I really don't want to have to search every time I have to fly to a new airport, and I just can not deal with 0 scenery at 99.9231% of airports.

I really don't want to have to search every time I have to fly to a new airport, and I just can not deal with 0 scenery at 99.9231% of airports.

Duhhh .... who was talking about airports at all? It was all about city autogen. The airport topic is a different kind of beast, and discussed - in other topics - many times.

Is there a tool to simply edit/assign landclass? I mean I could easily assign relatively accurate landclass for my own area/country simply using google earth as referance. Far more accurate than what xp has today.

 

I agree though, XP is looking really promising now.