November 4, 20169 yr I think it looks awesome! The sky and lighting are beautiful...nice and bright. | Dave | I've been around for most of my life. There's always a sunset happening somewhere in the world that somebody is enjoying.
November 4, 20169 yr I hope not, why would Austin re-invent the wheel? Are you absolutely sure about that? Given the size of LR's development team (2), I don't see how they would have the time and resources to re-engineer something like what Sundog already offer? Ed, Triton (aka Sundog) is used by many AA titles, it's a VERY good engine with 32bit and 64bit support for DX and OGL. It can be made/used (very flexible API/engine) less repetitive but at the cost of performance and memory usage. The demo videos are great, but attempting to replicate that at a global scale (LOD) would induce significant FPS hit. I'm hoping LR's development major version cycles will shrink ... the industry typically aims at 12-18 months for major version releases. So I'm hoping XP12 will have weather and 4 seasons, but XP11 is a step in the right direction ... for Training purposes it's VERY important to have a good weather depiction at acceptable FPS. Cheers, Rob. If you scroll down the comments on the original video posting at the developers blog, you will see a conversation between Frank Kane (who is Sundog) and Ben where Frank is offering advice and assistance to Laminar. Its clear this is a Laminar development. Maybe it keeps cost lower, whilst P3D might be created by Lockheed and has a much larger user base, Laminar is much much smaller and may feel the licensing fee for Triton cannot be justified. Jason E Row Follow me on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/JasonRowPhotography
November 4, 20169 yr Commercial Member Laminar is much much smaller and may feel the licensing fee for Triton cannot be justified. Plus, I personally think Ben simply *likes* working on challenges such as this. :smile: Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
November 4, 20169 yr Commercial Member I hope not, why would Austin re-invent the wheel? Are you absolutely sure about that? Given the size of LR's development team (2), I don't see how they would have the time and resources to re-engineer something like what Sundog already offer? Ed, Triton (aka Sundog) is used by many AA titles, it's a VERY good engine with 32bit and 64bit support for DX and OGL. It can be made/used (very flexible API/engine) less repetitive but at the cost of performance and memory usage. The demo videos are great, but attempting to replicate that at a global scale (LOD) would induce significant FPS hit. I'm hoping LR's development major version cycles will shrink ... the industry typically aims at 12-18 months for major version releases. So I'm hoping XP12 will have weather and 4 seasons, but XP11 is a step in the right direction ... for Training purposes it's VERY important to have a good weather depiction at acceptable FPS. Cheers, Rob. Just a small correction on your post. LR's development team is not just 2 people. It's not my place to say how many there actually are, but I can assure you, it is far more than just Austin and Ben.
November 6, 20169 yr I think it's November right ? Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
November 6, 20169 yr They keep on saying its coming this November holidays season (USA). So lets look at November's holidays in the US: November 11th Veterans Day November 24th Thanks Giving Day November 25th Black Friday X-Plane11 GTX1070 8GB Vram - i7 4770K cpu @3.5GHz Quad core - 16GB RAM
November 6, 20169 yr I think it's November right ? Yes and it will continue being November for another 25 days. 4790K @4.9GHz, 32GB DDR3, 1080Ti, W10-64bit
November 6, 20169 yr Yes and it will continue being November for another 25 days. Thanks They keep on saying its coming this November holidays season (USA). So lets look at November's holidays in the US: November 11th Veterans Day November 24th Thanks Giving Day November 25th Black Friday hmmm Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
November 6, 20169 yr Thanksgiving is basically like a 4 day thing, people are kinda gone during that time.
November 6, 20169 yr Xplane was present in FS Weekend exhibition in Netherlands and looks like someone got to try xp11 as per this post on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/XPDedicated/permalink/1069399689844149/ X-Plane11 GTX1070 8GB Vram - i7 4770K cpu @3.5GHz Quad core - 16GB RAM
November 6, 20169 yr Sorry if it's been asked before but will UHD / HD mesh be compatible with XP11 or will it require new versions? It would suck to take a step backwards.. Steve McNitt
November 6, 20169 yr Yes, has been asked and answered http://www.avsim.com/topic/496097-x-plane-11-coming-november/?p=3492993 Flo B.
November 6, 20169 yr So XP 11 will finally allow screen undocking? I wonder if it's going to cause a fps hit as bad as FSX.
November 6, 20169 yr So XP 11 will finally allow screen undocking? I wonder if it's going to cause a fps hit as bad as FSX. Doubtful it will be as bad. 4790K @4.9GHz, 32GB DDR3, 1080Ti, W10-64bit
November 6, 20169 yr Cant wait ! AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, RTX 4080S, Ram - 32GB, 32" 4K Monitor, WIN 11. Eric Escobar
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