X-Plane PB16 improvements

[manuthie 242]

Some shots of the latest X-Plane beta improvements. Everything is 100% default X-Plane.

New autogen models for European medium-height buildings

Cockpit shadows are less blocky

Sky banding is much improved

Moon and stars are back

[Phantom88 3,284]

L@@king Great!!

[Jimm 437]

So I heard unconfirmed reports that they were working with height data, so this is good.  Is that the moon I see?  Do you have HDR active in the settings?  If so, this is a good thing too.

[pilot83 387]

Lookin great! which area in Europe is the 1st and 2nd screenshots?

[manuthie 242]

1 hour ago, Jimm said:

So I heard unconfirmed reports that they were working with height data, so this is good.  Is that the moon I see?  Do you have HDR active in the settings?  If so, this is a good thing too.

The screenshots show the updated global scenery (see here) which includes height data. HDR was active too.

9 minutes ago, pilot83 said:

Lookin great! which area in Europe is the 1st and 2nd screenshots?

Both are from somewhere over Berlin.

[Kuragiman 227]

To quote 2001/2010 the motion picture;   "My God... It's full of stars!"

 

The lack of stars and moon was really driving me nuts.  So glad they fixed it finally!@

[Boeing or not going 578]

"That's no moon..."

[JAT 185]

Looks great.

nebojsa

[Desaix 235]

Looks like I have to pack up luggages for the final migration...

[jt8d9a 1,881]

Thanks for showing the improvements!

[Jimm 437]

This may sound petty, but since I'm not at my sim right now, could someone do a quick flight, over an area of complete darkness (no light pollution), and see if the stars are brighter?  I'm just curious if this is taken into account by LR.  I know with a Lua fix I recently installed, the moon shows up as well as the stars, but this is an external fix, and not something that LR had done (up until now), so it would be nice to see if there is improvement in this area. 

[Piotr007 164]

I hope they will work on the world landmarks like the Fernsehturm Berlin, Kremlin, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Wembley stadium, Tower Bridge, Parliament Palace London, Amsterdam ArenA, Eiffel Tower, Famiglia Sagrada Barcelona, St. Peter Church Rome, ... come on guys. It is the superb cherry on the freakin PIE!!!

[Jimm 437]

15 minutes ago, Piotr007 said:

I hope they will work on the world landmarks like the Fernsehturm Berlin, Kremlin, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Wembley stadium, Tower Bridge, Parliament Palace London, Amsterdam ArenA, Eiffel Tower, Famiglia Sagrada Barcelona, St. Peter Church Rome, ... come on guys. It is the superb cherry on the freakin PIE!!!

Well if LR doesn't include those, there is still always this: http://simheaven.com/?page_id=3260 

[wolke85 150]

This some amazing stuff here!

Great shots from a very, very good looking version of XP11!

[Raven9000 272]

10 hours ago, Kuragiman said:

To quote 2001/2010 the motion picture;   "My God... It's full of stars!"

 

The lack of stars and moon was really driving me nuts.  So glad they fixed it finally!@

I wish I could fix my XP10, where the stars appear kind of blurry, in kind of like a "heat wave" effect...