Has anyone moved from FSX to Xplane?

[carrotroot 77]

Good thing London is far away from me otherwise I would probably totally lose my sh,it if I saw Tony World2Xplane was a complete game changer for X-Plane's scenery, especially when it is used in combination with othrophoto scenery. Speaking for myself, if it weren't for W2XP I would have gone back to FSX/Prepar3D.

[strider1 575]

I hope you guys record some video of Laminar presentation !

[jcomm 5,889]

When is it going to take place?

[tonywob 4,768]

 

 

Good thing London is far away from me otherwise I would probably totally lose my sh,it if I saw Tony World2Xplane was a complete game changer for X-Plane's scenery, especially when it is used in combination with othrophoto scenery. Speaking for myself, if it weren't for W2XP I would have gone back to FSX/Prepar3D.

 

Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you like the W2XP/Ortho combo :-). Actually the conference is in Cosford about 2 two hours drive from Manchester. I'm staying near to the airport and driving down from the airport in the morning, but traffic on the M6 can be bad, so I'm making an early start. 

 

 

 

I hope you guys record some video of Laminar presentation !

 

If I don't see anyone else recording it then I'll do my best, but it will be a cell phone recording. I hope this year somebody does a professional recording with a tripod and decent sound quality. Perhaps people would be more interested if I keep a live thread here with the most important points running and add pictures (depending on whether there is net access).

 

 

 

When is it going to take place?

 

8th October. There will be two presentations, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I'm also interested in speaking with DTG and meeting some other developers in person. 

P.S. Jose, I've heard flights from Lisbon to Manchester or Liverpool are quite cheap ;-)

[ErichB 3,638]

I hope you guys record some video of Laminar presentation !

 

I can never understand why the presenters themselves don't make good quality recordings of their own presentation for distribution on Youtube.   It's a no brainer.  Especially with a presentation as big as this. 

 

Why reach 100 people in one presentation and rely on someone's crappy iphone recording to be posted when you can reach thousands with a good quality presentation of your own.

[jcomm 5,889]

Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you like the W2XP/Ortho combo :-). Actually the conference is in Cosford about 2 two hours drive from Manchester. I'm staying near to the airport and driving down from the airport in the morning, but traffic on the M6 can be bad, so I'm making an early start. 

 

 

8th October. There will be two presentations, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I'm also interested in speaking with DTG and meeting some other developers in person. 

P.S. Jose, I've heard flights from Lisbon to Manchester or Liverpool are quite cheap ;-)

 

I know Tony, and I'd love to be there - never attended such a workshop / conference other than the great VisrtualAirShow that took place until 2006 here in Portugal, every two years... By those days I will be rather busy, day and night unfortunately, otherwise I would surely try to go there too ... if not for other good reasons, at least to meet people we all know across the Internet, but never in person :-)

 

I hope you enjoy your stay and am looking forward for your reports :-)

[blocks_off 5]

Hi 

Just to add to this topic, I use both FSX:SE, X-Plane and PSX (I don't see myself investing in P3D)

 

I use very few addons in any sim, I will list these:-

FSX:SE

Active Sky

FSUIPC

FSLabs A320 (previously PMDG, Level-D)

 

X-Plane

FS Global Real Weather

Mesh

FF 777 767 757 and very likely the IXEG when time allows

 

Why do I like FSX:SE ?

Time acceleration

Most aircraft add-ons allow saving and therefore resuming of a flight.

Pop out e.g. PDF, ND

Exit sim has to be confirmed with an acknowledgement!

 

Why do I like X-Plane

Appeals better visually to me, even airports just with taxiways are good for my experience.

Flight dynamics

Sloping runways and taxiways

Easier to set up flight controls - e.g. after an OS reinstall in the summer I simply launched x-plane and it picked up the previous configuration of my game controllers

Easy to install scenery.

 

So in short, having started with FS (I guess like most of us!), I have just naturally moved towards more flying in XP this year. Indeed after the OS install it was a month before I reinstalled FSX.

 

- Carl

[strider1 575]

The freeware community is awesome ! Thanks Tony for the awesome work you have done for the community !

 

 

Has anybody deciphered the cryptic videos from Laminar ?

[mmerelles 78]

 

Why do I like FSX:SE ?

Time acceleration

 

 

 

you can do some time acceleration on xplane.

 

Map any key of your liking (i do use CTRL + T) to operation/flightmodel_speed_change.

 

Pressing CTRL + T starts accelerating, each press accelerates more 2x 4x until last press disables it.

 

during acceleration mode xplane simulates everything as during normal time (is not jumping!), so how fast you can accelerate depends on your hardware power to keep up xplane pace simulating everything at a speed.

[Murmur 3,941]

you can do some time acceleration on xplane.

 

Map any key of your liking (i do use CTRL + T) to operation/flightmodel_speed_change.

 

Pressing CTRL + T starts accelerating, each press accelerates more 2x 4x until last press disables it.

 

during acceleration mode xplane simulates everything as during normal time (is not jumping!), so how fast you can accelerate depends on your hardware power to keep up xplane pace simulating everything at a speed.

 

I'll add that the best technique would be to go to external view and zoom out at the max (basically so that the view is going into outer space and the size of the earth becomes a pixel). This way, the rendering load is minimized and the FPS should go up, so that the max time acceleration achievable increases.

[blocks_off 5]

What I should have said is - for me - time acceleration is better in FSX as  whilst I'm aware of CTRL+T in X-plane I only get upto 2x but I will try the above tip.

[mccurdypm 57]

What I should have said is - for me - time acceleration is better in FSX as  whilst I'm aware of CTRL+T in X-plane I only get upto 2x but I will try the above tip.

 

 

I find using the Simple Warp plugin a better way to "speed" up, I usually warp 100nm at a time so I don't crash but it makes long haul flights not so long :-) The only problem with this is it doesn't speed up the time.

[alfamike 67]

in X-plane I only get upto 2x but I will try the above tip

 

The multiplier factor depend also by your rendering options, X-Plane will tell you which value is the maximum allowed by your configuration.

[Jude Bradley 659]

Hey guys, who is the main developer of airports for XP?

Check out MisterX6's freeware version of KBOS to see what's out there. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/33270-kbos-boston-logan-international-airport/

[Rocky_53 1,566]

Check out MisterX6's freeware version of KBOS to see what's out there. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/33270-kbos-boston-logan-international-airpoThanks Jude

Thanks Jude