Flightbeam KPDX is out!

[udidwht 133]

4 hours ago, Flic1 said:

I just came in here to post the same thing. The ground textures have that fuzzy 'moire' effect that I am seeing on a lot of addon airports now.  It has always been an issue with FSDT textures (KCLT has it really bad) and I never had it at all on any other Flightbeam airports until this one. They look great during the day but at night it is not good with landing/taxi lights on. I think it is a side effect of optimizing the textures to look good during the day but this seems to have a negative effect with dynamic lighting.  I wonder why this is different than the other Flightbeam airports though...KMSP runway/taxiway textures are perfect at night.  

Mipmap issue likely.

[Dave_YVR 968]

Keep in mind the actual area and how it performs without the added scenery. Portland while not as bad as say Seattle or Vancouver, BC is still harder on perfirmance than other areas. Adding higher detailed airport scenery on top is only going to add to this hit.

[Manny 1,293]

How does this compare with the FS9's Flightzone's KPDX and its surrounding small airports? I hope Orbx would do the Pearson airport to go with flightbeam;s KPDX

 

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=fzpdx

 

Edited January 6, 2019 by Manny

[fakeflyer737 990]

39 minutes ago, Manny said:

How does this compare with the FS9's Flightzone's KPDX and its surrounding small airports? I hope Orbx would do the Pearson airport to go with flightbeam;s KPDX

 

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=fzpdx

 

ORBX KVUO is made by Bill Womack, the same person that just made KPDX. They should work perfectly. 

[medx421 50]

2 hours ago, Manny said:

I hope Orbx would do the Pearson airport to go with flightbeam;s KPDX

Really?  VUO has been an ORBX offering for 7 months now.

[Nemo 1,303]

During ILS landing at 28R with PMDGs 738, I get one of these terrible long frames (3-4 seconds) directly after touch down. I got somehow used to these long pauses during flight and approach phases but directly at landing it is a immersion killer. :-(

[Manny 1,293]

11 hours ago, medx421 said:

Really?  VUO has been an ORBX offering for 7 months now.

Oh OK.. I've not been simming for a while... Need to catch up. :)

[kenthom 19]

Love the airport.  Seems to perform okay for me...however, the night time runway texture is horrible.  Totally agree with statements previously made about it.  I'm only a simmer so I don't understand why some airports have amazing night time runway textures and some look like....well..some kind of mosaic art.   

[Rocky_53 1,566]

1 hour ago, kenthom said:

 Seems to perform okay for me...however, the night time runway texture is horrible.  

Well, that's my decision made! 😢

Edited January 6, 2019 by Rockliffe

[Bob Scott 7,704]

Here is Bill Womack's explanation of the KPDX night texture issue:

https://www.flightbeam.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3172

 

[signmanbob 592]

On 1/4/2019 at 2:00 PM, julian46 said:

Purchased and installed.

I had to use the troubleshooter to disable 4 Orbx Pacific NW BGL files (just ran the FlightBeam mgmt tool) - before I did this the Sode Jetway was about 10ft too high (see pic)

https://imgur.com/a/30IFUt7

 

Which files did you have to disable?  I'm having the same problem.

Edit: Nevermind.  I figured it out.  I never noticed that troubleshooting tool in the Flightbeam Manager.  Very handy 😊

Thank you,

Bob

[threexgreen 3,133]

1 hour ago, Rockliffe said:

Well, that's my decision made! 😢

Bill said he will look into it and push an update when he's fixed it so don't be sad 🙂

[Rocky_53 1,566]

1 hour ago, threegreen said:

Bill said he will look into it and push an update when he's fixed it so don't be sad 🙂

Just seems odd to release such a highly prized airport from such a hi-end developer with such a glaring issue. Also, I thought all FB sceneries could be installed in trial mode, but looking on their website I can't see any reference to this option. Any ideas?

Edited January 6, 2019 by Rockliffe

[ChrisKSDF 13]

On 1/5/2019 at 7:22 AM, vbazillio said:

 

Wow. One has to wonder how much beta testing was done given all of those misplaced taxiway hatch marks.

[_Gladius_ 24]

Seeing that this airport was released has made my day!  Can’t wait to download, install, and go fly!