Just recieved an email for Flight Sim com which also states "Expect a very special X-Plane announcement from Austin Meyer, the founder of Laminar Research and creator of X-Plane, and Ben Supnik, head of development for the desktop version of X-Plane. This presentation in the 200-seat auditorium will be taking place in both the morning and the afternoon, followed each time by a Q&A session."

 

So yea, It's going to be an Xplane 11 announcement. 

I just hope they will find some time to increase tree look. Right now it's just something that kills immersion in XP10. Nice when you're flying 1000+ but awful when you're flying low. 2xBillboard trees are ugly to look at with those unbelievable shadow casted on one side.

PR3D default trees are far superior with a far better integration with the landscape at daytime.

I agree, the trees do need some work.

PR3D default trees are far superior with a far better integration with the landscape at daytime.

 

And nothing compares to the Orbx-HD-Trees: Amazing look and better performance...

It'll be interesting to see what features XP11 will have and whether or not Austin starts adding some things that the community wants, even if he doesn't think it's a priority. 

 

Other than already announced features, I hope we'll get:

-A much improved weather/cloud engine (no explanation needed).

-Regional autogen. I'd love to see English houses when landing in London or palm trees when landing in Kona. 

-Use of bathymetric data for water color. Similar to the above, it would be cool to have different colors of water based on the depth and location.

-Seasons. Not my number one priority, but it would definitely be nice to have when flying around Canada, Scandinavia, etc in the winter.

-Improved trees. If we could get 3D trees without much of a performance hit (not sure if thats possible), low-and-slow wold be that much better. 

-Other visual effects such as wave visuals that actually match the height set in the weather menu, water/snow/ice on the runway, etc.

-Improvements to the flight model (If Murmur and José and say their are some improvements necessary, I believe them)

-And probably some smaller things I'm forgetting

For me, seasons and a better weather engine are the bare minimum improvements I expect from X-Plane 11.

 

 

And nothing compares to the Orbx-HD-Trees: Amazing look and better performance...

 

"Better performance" 

 

But yes, seasons for XP11 are a must... There is absoloutely no excuse unlike for many other features. 

Seasons, correct daylight according to place and date which implies correct Sun ephmeris, Moon ephmeris ( including phase ) which FSX does correctly....

 

Then better weather modeling, including density altitude also dependant on humidity... More plausible interpretation of variable and gusting winds.  Convective systems...

The only thing that can be said with certainty at this point is this :

 

 

This is a accurate representation off all people commenting in this thread

 

Apart from me winning the Lottery jackpot today....I predict:

1. Better performance, that I thought would come from a 64 bit simulator! ( FPS that don't jump about spoiling the smoothness of flight which is the immersion breaker)

2. Seasonal ground textures.

3. Ground textures that look like the ground.

4. I will stop there since its all too far in the future for my crystal ball to predict!

 

Best regards

David.

So who's going to be there this year, would be good to meet some people in person?

I hope somebody records it and posts it on youtube !

I hope somebody records it and posts it on youtube !

 

+1 I never understand why these big flight sim conferences never have anyone making a professional quality recording of the keynote speeches. In this day and age its hardly difficult to set up a tripod and camera to film them

 

 

 

That's the environment we're supposed to be flying in, like the real pilots do. And right now, X-Plane (and all other sims) do a terrible job of modeling it.

 

X-plane can't do it right now, but there are other games that can. It's going to melt your GPU though.

 

Source:

http://reset-game.net/?p=752

 

Well. I'm intrigued by the prospect of a new version of X-plane. Will probably get it on day one (hey, I am a flight-sim addict after all. Collecting them crazy-cat-lady style.) however I am also a bit ambivalent. Will XP11 mean square one in terms of add ons, scenery and the like? XP10 feels more and more complete and has matured nicely. It is "getting there". Now it's probably being deserted for something new and (not unlikely) "buggy and barren". With no IXEG, Saab et. cetera. 

 

I don't know. Maybe I am being too pessimistic but I really don't enjoy the thought of waiting years and years for some decent aircraft one more time. 

Well. I'm intrigued by the prospect of a new version of X-plane. Will probably get it on day one (hey, I am a flight-sim addict after all. Collecting them crazy-cat-lady style.) however I am also a bit ambivalent. Will XP11 mean square one in terms of add ons, scenery and the like? XP10 feels more and more complete and has matured nicely. It is "getting there". Now it's probably being deserted for something new and (not unlikely) "buggy and barren". With no IXEG, Saab et. cetera. 

 

I don't know. Maybe I am being too pessimistic but I really don't enjoy the thought of waiting years and years for some decent aircraft one more time.

 

LR is generally pretty good about backwards compatibility , so I imagine most addons should work. They'll just need to be updated to take advantage of new features and to fix anything that broke.