May 31, 20179 yr This is the one thing X-Plane shines at and I will miss. But since the new P3D v4 now has updated lighting, can someone comment on it. How does it look compared to the previous P3D lighting engine? Is it anywhere close to what X-Plane has to offer, and also which add-on airports currently support P3D's updated dynamic lights? I'm assuming that all 3rd party add-on airports must update their airports to include this feature if I'm not mistaken? ASUS ROG Maximus Hero XII ▪︎ Intel i9-10900K ▪︎ NVIDIA RTX 3090 FE ▪︎ 64GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro ▪︎ Windows 10 Pro (21H1) ▪︎ Samsung 970 EVO Pro 1TB NVME SSD (OS Drive) ▪︎ Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SATA SSD ▪︎ Seagate 4TB SATA HDD ▪︎ Corsair RMx 850W PSU
May 31, 20179 yr 1 minute ago, captain420 said: This is the one thing X-Plane shines at and I will miss. But since the new P3D v4 now has updated lighting, can someone comment on it. How does it look compared to the previous P3D lighting engine? Is it anywhere close to what X-Plane has to offer, and also which add-on airports currently support P3D's updated dynamic lights? I'm assuming that all 3rd party add-on airports must update their airports to include this feature if I'm not mistaken? It is very good, massive improvement, but at the risk of being pummeled X Plane is still the king of night lighting. 32GB ddr4, [email protected], Zotac 1080ti Extreme
May 31, 20179 yr It looks very good, but am hoping that third parties can eventually make lights look like they do in XP11. The XP lights are amazing
May 31, 20179 yr I don't for you but me my frame rate drop like hell (lost 20-25 FPS) when I'm pointing a building at night CPU: Intel Core i5-9600K ... OC 5 GHz, MB: MSI MEG Z390 ACE , MEM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (4 x 8GB) 3200 Mhz, PSU: EVGA 220-G2-0850-XR 80 PLUS GOLD 850 W, Water Cooler: Corsair H100i platinum, GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X 11G, SSD: SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive, SSD: SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive SSD: SAMSUNG 950 PRO M.2 2280 256GB and SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 1TB, P3D v3.4, Xplane 11 and soon MSFS2020
May 31, 20179 yr will the landing lights illuminate the clouds when flying thru weather? Thank you John.
May 31, 20179 yr Right now it seems that some aircraft are still using the old night textures, I think that will be fixed very soon. So you can't compare the final result with XP at the present time. One of the beta testers told me that emissive lights will be there if developers using V4 SDK to add them. I guess that would not be difficult to do with SDK available. JV from ORBX said the current dynamic lighting feature supports 256 light sources in one scene, this feature still needs to be improved in the future. But the night environment in V4 is already miles ahead of V3. ORBX is still developing a project called "Building", that will replace all autogen buildings in the sim. They might have something to say about it in flightsimcon this year. Cheers Gordon Harvey P3D, XP11, Flightgear.
May 31, 20179 yr 2 hours ago, 757FO said: will the landing lights illuminate the clouds when flying thru weather? Thank you John. Hi John, unfortunately no. But maybe we can expect FSFX Packages to do it. They have the strength to improve the immersion in the sim. Gordon Harvey P3D, XP11, Flightgear.
May 31, 20179 yr Still a little to go edit: well that didn't work 32GB ddr4, [email protected], Zotac 1080ti Extreme
May 31, 20179 yr 6 hours ago, kand said: Its as good as xp11 It's a little bit of overstatement, let's face it. I love P3D but still... have you seen some XP11 night pics ? FreeMeshX Global & P3D Tweak Assistant (PTA) plus a bit of orbx magic
May 31, 20179 yr 2 minutes ago, gamer19 said: It's a little bit of overstatement, let's face it. I love P3D but still... have you seen some XP11 night pics ? Entirely agree I was trying to post a pic to show the difference but cant remember how 32GB ddr4, [email protected], Zotac 1080ti Extreme
May 31, 20179 yr 7 minutes ago, glider_uk said: Entirely agree I was trying to post a pic to show the difference but cant remember how What are you talking about glider, just post the damn link. It's all ...automated, no worries. You're not much tech-savvy aren't you ? There. edit: You can actually post one from the (XP11) game and another from real life and ask people which are which. I bet no more than 69% will guess it right. FreeMeshX Global & P3D Tweak Assistant (PTA) plus a bit of orbx magic
May 31, 20179 yr 1 minute ago, gamer19 said: What are you talking about glider, just post the damn link. It's all ...automated, no worries. You're not much tech-savvy aren't you ? There. Well considering I own an IT company, no your right 32GB ddr4, [email protected], Zotac 1080ti Extreme
May 31, 20179 yr 5 minutes ago, gamer19 said: You can actually post one from the (XP11) game and another from real life and ask people which are which. I bet no more than 69% will guess it right They look great in screenshots but when actually in the sim they have limited draw distance and pop into view
May 31, 20179 yr 7 minutes ago, Glynn said: They look great in screenshots but when actually in the sim they have limited draw distance and pop into view Yep the same issue as in 10 and 11 but XP11 nigh lightning is great, however we have a sub-forum for XP, back to P3D V4 hope with PTA we can adjust some stuff nights still to light.. Love the dynamic light feature lot of possibilities.. André
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