Orbx has people flow with a few people doing 'things' but that is pretty minimal and specific to their scenery.

 

I'm surprised no one has come up with people boarding/loading plane animations, both on ground with stairs and viewed inside the plane pass cabin areas.

 

Good idea for Ground Services X addon perhaps??

 

 

Probably not been done because its a frame rate killer?

 

It would be cool to see a few people knocking about in the terminals though!

Closest thing yet is GSX

Closest thing yet is XPAX. You can watch the live people in the lobby, then going down the jetway, hear them entering the aircraft, and then a view of them seated. It includes flight attendants providing the briefings on the way to the runway. Upon arrival, and during the deplaning, you will see them getting up in their seats and then walking down the jetway into the airport.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Probably not been done because its a frame rate killer?

 

It would be cool to see a few people knocking about in the terminals though!

 

Lets think outside the box.

 

If there wer a loop of say, 12 passengers....or even 6..

 

As they wer walking down the stairs and on to the bus, as they get inside the bus ( you no longer see them) they dissapear, and respawn back inside the plane, so then all you have is 12 (or6) passengers on a constant loop...shouldnt hurt FPS that way.

 

Closest thing yet is XPAX. You can watch the live people in the lobby, then going down the jetway, hear them entering the aircraft, and then a view of them seated. It includes flight attendants providing the briefings on the way to the runway. Upon arrival, and during the deplaning, you will see them getting up in their seats and then walking down the jetway into the airport.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

Not in the way GSX works though. ( Animated people on the ramp ect)

 

It does it through video, not actual people in the sim.

 

 

 

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I think I remember FSDT saying that they would look into it for GSX providing they could do it with good frames.

 

The looping 6-12 people is a good idea. Lee

Orbx has people flow with a few people doing 'things' but that is pretty minimal and specific to their scenery.

 

I'm surprised no one has come up with people boarding/loading plane animations, both on ground with stairs and viewed inside the plane pass cabin areas.

 

Good idea for Ground Services X addon perhaps??

 

It would be interesting that's for sure...but, the reason is simple, it's complicated, very complicated, linking to jetways, stairs, what size of ramps, jetways & stairs - height, # of steps, 3d people in the space time continuum wow...and who would buy it (what's the market?), how much would you pay for it? 

 

I just don't see it taking off so to speak, but perhaps there is some computer genius out there that could build something workable.

Closest thing yet is XPAX. You can watch the live people in the lobby, then going down the jetway, hear them entering the aircraft, and then a view of them seated. It includes flight attendants providing the briefings on the way to the runway. Upon arrival, and during the deplaning, you will see them getting up in their seats and then walking down the jetway into the airport.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Jim, can you compare XPAX against FSPassengersX & GSX?

I never owned FS Passengers so cannot compare it.  GSX and AES are programs with animated workers on the ground that provide services for an aircraft at the gates.  There is no comparison other than XPAX gives you a sense of people boarding/deboarding your aircraft.  I do know FS Passengers does not have this capability. 

 

Best regards,

Jim

I know this has been discussed several times both for GSX and AES. I'm currently using AES for all airports I fly to and I'm keeping my fingers crossed we'll eventually see animated passengers...would be so cool!

 

Might also add speaking about XPax I use both XPax and AES and to me that brings a lot to the overall immersion when flying the NGX online as close to real world OPs as possible. I think XPax although an aged addon by now is a great one! Not only does it give you the video clips of passengers mentioned above but it will also let you record your own recordings that will be played at certain stages during the flight letting you welcome your virtual passengers etc.

 

And yes...I'm a true FS nerd

How bout a jetway with large windows such as in the RW showing animated passengers boarding/disembarking? That way they wouldn't even have to walk as the legs could be hidden  bellow the bottom of the window....Just a thought.

Oliver Pabst is working on Boarding Passengers. It was clearly stated in the manual for AES 2.30 (on the Aerosoft website). That could give AES the edge over GSX. As of yet FSDT and FT both have silhouettes of moving people/walking people at their airports (ZRH, KMDW...)

I know this has been discussed several times both for GSX and AES. I'm currently using AES for all airports I fly to and I'm keeping my fingers crossed we'll eventually see animated passengers...would be so cool!

 

Might also add speaking about XPax I use both XPax and AES and to me that brings a lot to the overall immersion when flying the NGX online as close to real world OPs as possible. I think XPax although an aged addon by now is a great one! Not only does it give you the video clips of passengers mentioned above but it will also let you record your own recordings that will be played at certain stages during the flight letting you welcome your virtual passengers etc.

 

And yes...I'm a true FS nerd

Didnt  know  you could  get aes  at all airports, so it like  gsx  than  you can get it  at every fsx airport?

Didnt  know  you could  get aes  at all airports, so it like  gsx  than  you can get it  at every fsx airport?

 

Sorry for being unclear, what I meant was I do all my flying exclusively to airports that have have AES support.

 

I also own GSX but prefer the way AES is "tailor-made" for each of the airports it supports where everything will work 100% for that reason. To compare GSX and AES and suggest which one to go with I would say if you're the type that like to fly all over the place to any airport probably GSX will suite you better but if you're the type who only or at least mainly fly to a fixed number of airports where you have custom airport scenery installed AES will be your ticket IMHO.

Edit: beaten to it

 

Lee