X-Plane 11.10 Beta

[Evan Banalian 5]

On 10/16/2017 at 6:11 PM, strider1 said:

X-Plane snail pace of development is frustrating at times but it is what is, and we are just going along for the ride. When you buy a product you typically buy AS IS. I think Laminar is pretty generous with their product updates. They could charge for all of these new feature updates. We got new landmarks, with more to come, a new C172 with a G1000 and a bunch of stuff under the hood that will make the sim even better over time ! It's a long term project.  

The draw distance of lights is still not fixed nor is it broken. They could increase the draw distance of the lights but that will kill your FPS since the lights are part of autogen. Its a design limit and will be looked at when they move over to the new Vulcan API.

Xplane will probably never be perfect. If you think you could do a better job then open shop and start programming ! Or get a PPL and plane and start flying !

Cheers.....

 

I'm an instrument rated pilot with a lots of hours including Citation Jet training. Thanks for the advice. Also If the problem only FPS wise, why not make a slider to control how much visibility you can draw based on our computer power.  However I agree that it's not broken, but makes LA, vegas, NYC look like some town.

[sd_flyer 6,042]

9 hours ago, Evan Banalian said:

I'm an instrument rated pilot with a lots of hours including Citation Jet training. Thanks for the advice. Also If the problem only FPS wise, why not make a slider to control how much visibility you can draw based on our computer power.  However I agree that it's not broken, but makes LA, vegas, NYC look like some town.

 I believe there a free  tool where you can adjust multiple settings.

 

 

[jt8d9a 1,881]

beta4 is available.

http://developer.x-plane.com/2017/10/x-plane-11-10b4-lets-not-scale-your-plugins/

[N1125Y 22]

OMG ..... mother Earth stop shaking, stuttering is almost gone, G1000 too (wonder if it's fully functional ?), this thing looks fantastic, and you guys telling me it is only in Beta phase ...?????  ...    

Things are just getting better & better here .... 

Way to go LR :-)

Cheers      

[DocBird 79]

Beta4 brought me more fps and made the sim more smooth then before. 

Anyone else noticed this or is it only a placebo effect?

[CarlosF 1,241]

I can't tell if B4 brought me more frames, I got my sim locked at 1/2 of refresh (30fps), but one thing I can confirm is that stutters are gone, the sense of flying immersion is back, panning is silky smooth, quite enjoyable now.

 

 

[CaptCWGAllen 49]

Very smooth. No stutters. Frame rates good. FMOD sounds on updated B58 are fabulous. Flight dynamics - really nice to fly. Ground effect seems to be fixed. Gauges seem to be slightly better quality. Really enjoyable to fly. Haven’t tested the C90 or 172 yet.

Cheers

Peter

[Bunchy 227]

The C90 has had a big gauge upgrade. I like it a lot.

 

Stu

[CVEP 13]

I wonder if they changed anything to the ground effect. I don’t think so

[Paraffin 2,197]

2 hours ago, CVEP said:

I wonder if they changed anything to the ground effect. I don’t think so

There was a fix for the tendency to suddenly drop to the runway in the last few seconds when landing. This is the logged bug report:

XPD-8060 Bug report: unrealistic pitch down moment in ground effect.

And this is the fix in the release notes:

Refined down-wash model off wings in ground effect.

[N1125Y 22]

..not sure about the Ground-Effect, but I noticed that Water Bodies are covered with Milky Layer ..very weird and annoying too  (-:  

[60North 120]

We are working with austin on the ground effect pitching moment, at this point it is uncertain if the new model will make it into 11.10

[RJC68 823]

Hi There,

I read there are now 20 custom preset views and I can see that from the joystick settings menu. Does anyone know how to program the other 10 views? 

[Glenn_C 135]

1 hour ago, Richdem said:

Hi There,

I read there are now 20 custom preset views and I can see that from the joystick settings menu. Does anyone know how to program the other 10 views? 

Yes, you need to open the settings page -> keyboard -> views -> look for  options "Go to save 3-D cockpit location #11" then to #20. You will probably notice views # -> #10 are already filled with numpad-1 to 10 if you set them already view the numpad.

The "Memorize 3-D cockpit location" keys are what you used to memorize , default CTRL+Numpad-1 etc . For the extra keys you could set that to CTRL+SHIFT+1 -> 0 

[strider1 575]

9 hours ago, MortenM said:

We are working with austin on the ground effect pitching moment, at this point it is uncertain if the new model will make it into 11.10

What about the weathervaning bug ?