Great video. I'm only 10 minutes in and he has already shown tons of the menus and interface. Looks like there is a content manager where you can uninstall add-ons, even search for them. The "mandatory packages" (base game?) is 79.8 GB and airports/aircraft/challenges ect. are separate. He has 100.53GB installed. 

Edited August 15, 20205 yr by reignman40

I always watch Grippersim's videos to the end. Even if I'm not 100% interested in the topic, his delivery cracks me up. 10/10 for entertainment. But he's informative with it.👍

Hopefully Content Manager will have a filter option added on release so that you can filter installed add-ons by type (aircraft, scenery etc) or developer (Asobo, Orbx, Carenado etc), otherwise you'll soon have a very long list to scroll through if you're not sure what to enter in the search box.

I notice some sort of artefacts hovering above the edges of the runway (for example from 27:00 in that video). Perhaps they are some sort of 'design marker' designating the boundary of the runway during the design. Hopefully gone on the final release version. At first I thought they were birds until I saw they were evenly spaced along the runway's edge.

 

And (minor gripe), it's a shame the foliage is travelling through the cockpit as he rolls backwards down the slope. Not the biggest issue in the world to be fair.

Edited August 16, 20205 yr by 109Sqn

15 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

I notice some sort of artefacts hovering above the edges of the runway (for example from 27:00 in that video). Perhaps they are some sort of 'design marker' designating the boundary of the runway during the design. Hopefully gone on the final release version. At first I thought they were birds until I saw they were evenly spaced along the runway's edge.

 

And (minor gripe), it's a shame the foliage is travelling through the cockpit as he rolls backwards down the slope. Not the biggest issue in the world to be fair.

Trees do have collision detection but not bushes. So that's some advancement at least.

Not sure about the artifacts. You mean the white markers along the runway? Those are there in real life and they are stuck in the ground in the video, not floating.

1 hour ago, bonchie said:

Not sure about the artifacts. You mean the white markers along the runway? Those are there in real life and they are stuck in the ground in the video, not floating.

No, actually above the ground, perhaps 30 feet above the runway. They might even coincide with the white markers, as in they might have been placeholders for them during the designing of the runway in the sim. They are in the form of thin black lines but you need to look carefully to see them. I'd post a screenshot but I don't use image hosting sites anymore.

As an example, freeze the video at 27:04 and look at the extreme left of the screen, almost exactly halfway up, and you'll spot one of them. A horizontal black line. There are several alongside the runway. At 27:06 you will see one on either side - on the left, below the vertical line in the video's title after "2020"*, and one the right, immediately right of the windscreen's black spar. (* You'll need to have the video in full-screen to see the left-hand one in that position relative to the title's white line).

 

And no, they're not marks on my monitor!😉

Saw Developer mode button. So hopefully it means the SDK will be out on release. “Hopefully”

3 hours ago, 109Sqn said:

No, actually above the ground, perhaps 30 feet above the runway. They might even coincide with the white markers, as in they might have been placeholders for them during the designing of the runway in the sim. They are in the form of thin black lines but you need to look carefully to see them. I'd post a screenshot but I don't use image hosting sites anymore.

As an example, freeze the video at 27:04 and look at the extreme left of the screen, almost exactly halfway up, and you'll spot one of them. A horizontal black line. There are several alongside the runway. At 27:06 you will see one on either side - on the left, below the vertical line in the video's title after "2020"*, and one the right, immediately right of the windscreen's black spar. (* You'll need to have the video in full-screen to see the left-hand one in that position relative to the title's white line).

 

And no, they're not marks on my monitor!😉

You're right. That looks weird. It's hard to spot, if you don't know what to look for... 🙂

It looks like some design markers or something. Nice observation.

No Learning Centre shown there at all, or Help files, like you get with other programs!?

Incredible if true......surely not?

There should be lots of info on each particular aircraft, how to operate its autopilot, and a myriad other things as well really.🤕

On 8/16/2020 at 2:28 AM, 109Sqn said:

I notice some sort of artefacts hovering above the edges of the runway (for example from 27:00 in that video). Perhaps they are some sort of 'design marker' designating the boundary of the runway during the design. Hopefully gone on the final release version. At first I thought they were birds until I saw they were evenly spaced along the runway's edge.

I'm dragging this topic back up because these black artefacts are still appearing - very rarely - at some locations. Well, a couple of places so far, but I obviously haven't been to 37000 landing spots! It would be nice if it were possible for some automatic clean-up operation to be run by Asobo but I don't know if it would be as easy as that. Otherwise, they understandably have bigger fish to fry than some mildly distracting black marks hanging above runways and taxiways.