X-plane newcomer from P3D, questions and observations, VR too

[sizziano 172]

Surprised no one has mentioned Ortho4XP to make photos scenery. Much more efficient than using G2XPL

[theskyisthelimit 48]

Surprised no one has mentioned Ortho4XP to make photos scenery. Much more efficient than using G2XPL

I read that that one was a bit more involved than the other.. or maybe that has changed?

[DragoB 25]

Be like me and use all three sims, P3D, Xplane and ofc. FSX ^^. No reason to only fly on one. I mainly use X-plane when flying VFR or businesses jets

[pilot83 387]

I read that that one was a bit more involved than the other.. or maybe that has changed?

G2xpl is very straight forward, once you donate a symbolic amount the author will send you the plugin ready for use with all the settings, what i do is i spawn in the area i want and then will name the photo and then click generate, you can do it x plane on or off and you choose zoom level and if you want water or no.

[theskyisthelimit 48]

Be like me and use all three sims, P3D, Xplane and ofc. FSX ^^. No reason to only fly on one. I mainly use X-plane when flying VFR or businesses jets

I agree, thats why i have aeroflyfs2 and p3d as well.. more the merrier, for now.

I think my previous question got merged in and lost in the flow.. 

 

Is there a tool like sceneryconfigeditor for xplane that can be used to turn on and off scenery addons or create groups?

 

edit: would this xaddonmanger be the one? (edit: that might have only been mac)

[Guest-475 81]

XAddonManager is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. But apart from testing, there really isn't a need to deactivate any scenery in X-Plane. In FSX/P3D we did that mainly to prevent OOMs, but you will hardly experience an OOM in X-Plane 64bit, regardless of the amount of active scenery and the plane in use.

 

I didn't have a singe OOM in X-Plane. That being said, you should have enough RAM, especially when using UHD meshes. 16GB will be fine in almost all circumstances, more is always nice to have.

[theskyisthelimit 48]

XAddonManager is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. But apart from testing, there really isn't a need to deactivate any scenery in X-Plane. In FSX/P3D we did that mainly to prevent OOMs, but you will hardly experience an OOM in X-Plane 64bit, regardless of the amount of active scenery and the plane in use.

 

I didn't have a singe OOM in X-Plane. That being said, you should have enough RAM, especially when using UHD meshes. 16GB will be fine in almost all circumstances, more is always nice to have.

That makes sense. I think I mainly wanted it so I could easily toggle add-ons to compare to stock quickly

[Guest-475 81]

Ah ok!  You could try to combine this with the X-Reloaded plugin to quickly reload the scenery without having to restart X-Plane: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/18878-x-reloaded-linmacwin3264/

 

But i don't know if a simple reload will work in all cases, or if some enabling/disabling of scenery will require a restart. It's definitely the case when removing or adding scenery completely, but I guess XAddonManager just marks the scenery as "DISABLED" in the .ini

[theskyisthelimit 48]

Question on weather/clouds.. Sky Max Pro  vs Ventura Sky.. any thoughts there?  I read that the injection of weather in general is buggy, often taking a minute or more without addons to fix this.. and also distance rendering of clouds is unlimited vs limited with a plugin (is this accurate?).. so i'm guessing plugin = better frame rate with heavy clouds/weather.

 

Also read that sky max pro may be good for screenshots, but is not very realistic.

[pilot83 387]

Question on weather/clouds.. Sky Max Pro  vs Ventura Sky.. any thoughts there?  I read that the injection of weather in general is buggy, often taking a minute or more without addons to fix this.. and also distance rendering of clouds is unlimited vs limited with a plugin (is this accurate?).. so i'm guessing plugin = better frame rate with heavy clouds/weather.

I suggest you wait for X-enviro, a new weather engine/cloud injector to come out, it seems to fix many of these issues, still in Beta and here is a recent stream using x-enviro and the links to their website/FB.

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/625829117591486/

http://simrussia.com/xenviro_en/

 

you can skip to 1h:12min

 

[theskyisthelimit 48]

I suggest you wait for X-enviro, a new weather engine/cloud injector to come out, it seems to fix many of these issues, still in Beta and here is a recent stream using x-enviro and the links to their website/FB.

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/625829117591486/

http://simrussia.com/xenviro_en/

 

you can skip to 1h:12min

 

 

Wow, yeah good tip.. i guess for most of this ill just wait it out for XP11 to be released too, perhaps it will change the need for some of these addons/plugins too.

[Colonel X 1,428]

 

 

you can skip to 1h:12min

 

It looks good, but I the framerate is ###### (maybe other factors).