Must have addons to start with

[swiesma 625]

13 hours ago, Bjoern said:

It is what it is, sorry 😉

[Bjoern 1,157]

4 hours ago, swiesma said:

It is what it is, sorry 😉

Well, at least LR (Zibo) got the cockpit window dimensions right.

[onurair 24]

Sorry to "7500" the thread but is there an addon like orbx global to get rid of the brownish ground textures? I know of orthos and HD Mesh but are there any global exchange textures or similar?

Thank you in advance  

[kurtb 121]

use x-vision

[WebMaximus 372]

On 10/16/2018 at 5:11 PM, swiesma said:

The Zibo 737 is nice, but not on a PMDG level. So I hope for some better airliners soon. But the Zibo is more than ok for a freeware plane.

If you haven't already, check out the YouTube clips from Flightdeck2sim.

They are truly great and him being a real NG driver spending all his time in the Zibo mod over the NGX these days says quite a bit of the Zibo mod IMO.

[Guest]

OK, I have just added this fantastic little piece of freeware called betterpushback:

https://github.com/skiselkov/BetterPushbackC/releases

 

[regis9 4,014]

It’s an amazing addon.  Looking at the time I also spend in P3D I can’t believe no one has done something similar for that sim.

[Adrian123 1,015]

4 minutes ago, regis9 said:

It’s an amazing addon.  Looking at the time I also spend in P3D I can’t believe no one has done something similar for that sim.

Very true!

[Guest]

My own thoughts are that X Plane 11 is in fact far superior to Prepar3D. Although, when I tried the demo shortly after it was released I wasn't that impressed. I think that it probably fare easier to do something like this in X Plane 11 than P3D. Now that I am well down the road of getting used to and familiar with X Plane I think its unlikely that i will go back to P3D after V5 is released.

[kurtb 121]

i dont agree to the "superior" statement!!

[regis9 4,014]

I only really got into X-Plane within the last few weeks.  Once I gave it some time, I can see that it is a very strong sim.  Having said that I still love P3D as well, though I must say if X-Plane has seasons, AI Traffic and ATC it would address my main issues with it and that would close the gap significantly.

[ryanbatc 12,857]

Yes I'm hoping the particle system and seasons comes to fruition and it actually works before xp12.  But likely not.  Atc doesn't bother me since I use pilot edge

[strider1 575]

2 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Yes I'm hoping the particle system and seasons comes to fruition and it actually works before xp12.  But likely not.  Atc doesn't bother me since I use pilot edge

What are you expecting out of the particle system besides contrails? Seasons, I doubt it, more like xp12. I don't see them adding any more features to XP11. They are going to fix ATC and give us Vulcan. I think xp12 will be a weather update! exenviro seasons is looking really promising! 

 

Edited October 28, 2018 by strider1

[Paraffin 2,197]

37 minutes ago, strider1 said:

What are you expecting out of the particle system besides contrails? Seasons, I doubt it, more like xp12. I don't see them adding any more features to XP11. They are going to fix ATC and give us Vulcan.

Well, Ben has said that there will be scenery-based particle effects, just not in the 11.30 version where it's just aircraft-related effects. I'm thinking smokestacks in industrial regions, that kind of thing. 

The final work on XP11 is probably focused on the move to Vulkan/Metal, tightening up performance as much as possible for both 2D and VR, and then maybe better ATC if we're lucky.

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I think xp12 will be a weather update! exenviro seasons is looking really promising! 

I hope so. At this point I'm not holding my breath for better weather in the XP11 run, which I think does need a complete overhaul of the internal weather engine, so it can support full 3D modeling of discrete weather systems.

I think we're reaching another one of those break points where Austin has to decide if they're going to work internally on a better weather engine, or just keep handing it off to 3rd party developers for basically cosmetic weather effects. I want my fully-developed CB's with vertical airflow, darn it! And until someone proves otherwise, that's not going to be a 3rd-party add-on. The whole weather system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

Edited October 28, 2018 by Paraffin

[strider1 575]

48 minutes ago, Paraffin said:

Well, Ben has said that there will be scenery-based particle effects, just not in the 11.30 version where it's just aircraft-related effects. I'm thinking smokestacks in industrial regions, that kind of thing. 

The final work on XP11 is probably focused on the move to Vulkan/Metal, tightening up performance as much as possible for both 2D and VR, and then maybe better ATC if we're lucky.

I hope so. At this point I'm not holding my breath for better weather in the XP11 run, which I think does need a complete overhaul of the internal weather engine, so it can support full 3D modeling of discrete weather systems.

I think we're reaching another one of those break points where Austin has to decide if they're going to work internally on a better weather engine, or just keep handing it off to 3rd party developers for basically cosmetic weather effects. I want my fully-developed CB's with vertical airflow, darn it! And until someone proves otherwise, that's not going to be a 3rd-party add-on. The whole weather system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

 

Cool! I wonder if they can and have plans to use this particle system for fires? Aerial firefighting would be a blast! 

I am looking fwd to the day when we can fly around supercell storms:)

One of the devs is actively working on ATC, so we should be seeing an update in the near future hopefully! I am assuming 11.40/.50