P3Dv5.3...WOW!

[mpo910 2,112]

52 minutes ago, B777ER said:

Praying for a quick beta test, LM turnaround. Be nice to have it for this weekend but don't think it will be. 

Well........Testing is still ongoing....

[kevinfirth 1,392]

8 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Why is that difficult?

Cheers, Rob.

Sorry Rob, I may be completely mistaken (or it may be I'm the victim of misinformation!), I was under the impression there was a problem with overlaying a ground poly over varying sloped terrain?  I think it was Orbx that gave this reason when sloped runways were introduced about why the feature wasnt exploited, saying the workflow required for it was basically too difficult?

[birdguy 3,943]

2 hours ago, WestEnd said:

You can gain even better frametime delta consistency (what I call smoothness since I'm not an FPS chaser) by optimizing your AffinityMask and core assignments using various tools like Process Lasso, FSUIPC, cmd, etc.

This is all Greek to me.  I have no idea what these things are.

Another question.  I am not using any addon mesh in P3D.  Things look pretty good without it.  Is there a mesh I should be using?

Noel

[mpo910 2,112]

9 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Why is that difficult?

Cheers, Rob.

To me...it sounds....like a whole lot of manual work....setting how many? ground polys to make the runway look sloped and not to less polys to make it look stairwise. 

And this for all the layers? 

I'm not a dev ...but what I saw in a video how they did this at MSFS with just a few mouseclicks.....it was rather quick and effective then lots of effort and a long cost intensive process. 

[pgde 571]

15 minutes ago, birdguy said:

This is all Greek to me.  I have no idea what these things are.

Another question.  I am not using any addon mesh in P3D.  Things look pretty good without it.  Is there a mesh I should be using?

Noel

I use Toposim (https://www.toposim.net/). Excellent product. Makes a world of difference! He has world-wide coverage.

[shermank 166]

1 minute ago, pgde said:

I use Toposim (https://www.toposim.net/). Excellent product. Makes a world of difference! He has world-wide coverage.

Whether you use mesh or not is a matter of taste/ Toposim is an excellent product, though payware, as is Pilot's Mesh (recommended by ORBX). My preference as been Freemesh, which as the same suggests, is free..

Here is the link, and there is also an AVSIM thread  

 

[Christopher Low 5,341]

38 metre mesh is still pretty low resolution, although I guess that covering the entire world with anything better would be prohibitive. I am used to at least 10 metre mesh (and more generally 5 metre), so 38 metre does not exactly make me tingle with excitement

[Michael Moe 494]

Oh boy i really am enjoying 5.3HF1+LF in general .(bug a side off cause) I think Active Sky latest 8045 is a keeper with EA + VC . 

Btw : It might sound strange but for the last 2 flights in the FSLA321 i see no automatic entrys in the P3D.cfg regarding AM and to say it out loud dont because for reasons i dont know its a blast :-)

Michael Moe (thinking of Skalarki Bundle 2 right now as the wife has made me a blanco this year including PC)

There was a guy saying he had put this descision away from his wife as an option in relationship? i am not sure its smart in my relationship :-) 

She can buy that BMW as long as i get the A320 :-)

Life is a way to balance

Michael Moe

Edited January 14, 2022 by Michael Moe

[Biology 1,347]

22 hours ago, mpo910 said:

We aren´t allowed to say anything further (NDA). 

😉

Marcus

17 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

No, Marcus got special permission for this one item (performance).

Thank you for clarification. I just hope they improve EA sky colors one day. They already did a great job with clouds knowing trueSKY and its limitations, and I hope they can take advantage of trueSKY's sky colors too.

Edited January 15, 2022 by BiologicalNanobot

[mpo910 2,112]

53 minutes ago, BiologicalNanobot said:

Thank you for clarification. I just hope they improve EA sky colors one day. They already did a great job with clouds knowing trueSKY and its limitations, and I hope they can take advantage of trueSKY's sky colors too.

I used your MOD for OZON now several hours (20+) on flying and noticed that it is great. Do you have any idea if "fog" layer blending is done via shaders too? This looks awful ugly in P3D. Especially at night the blending between fog and upper clear sky is way to "hard" and does not blend very softly

[shivers9 1,174]

It is so nice to see all the positive posts about our “old dead LM flight Sim”. I have to say that at this point it is the smoothest and best performing Sim that I have ever experienced and it appears that things are just going to get better this year. My hat is off to the entire LM team! I can’t wait to see what V6.0 might bring.

[Christopher Low 5,341]

14 hours ago, shivers9 said:

It is so nice to see all the positive posts about our “old dead LM flight Sim”. I have to say that at this point it is the smoothest and best performing Sim that I have ever experienced and it appears that things are just going to get better this year. My hat is off to the entire LM team! I can’t wait to see what V6.0 might bring.

It is just a shame that most addon developers do not think the same

[F737MAX 5,557]

2 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

It is just a shame that most addon developers do not think the same

I can't blame them if the market for P3D products crashed overnight. Nor when it's apparently quicker and easier to build scenery in MSFS (something LM really need to address).

With abundant high quality freeware, less opportunity now to cash-in with low effort ports, and returning numbers of simmers to P3D, we can only hope that some of the better quality developers continue/return to making P3D stuff for us.

 

[BerndB 349]

3 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

It is just a shame that most addon developers do not think the same

I really don't want to start a discussion about comparison, but if i remember my thougts when i saw the teaser of MsFs about two years ago, i said there would be no need for add-ons anyway. Especially what the team told about what all have to be perfectly done in the sim itself. Weather, ATC, Snow and rain like in reality lay on surfaces anf melting again, not just textures etc. 

And where is it today? Even newer add-on airports for P3D are looking very real with PBR an EA. The diffrrence to those of MS are not as huge as you would exspect. But i am really wondering how much add-ons do exist already for FS. Why would i need streetlights or cityscape add-ons for that SIM?? Or even regional scenery enhancements like for Germany???? Weird....🤨

 

Edited January 16, 2022 by BerndB

[Johnny19 344]

11 minutes ago, BerndB said:

... but if i remember my thougts when i saw the teaser of MsFs about two years ago, i said there would be no need for add-ons anyway. Especially what the team told about what all have to be perfectly done in the sim itself. Weather, ATC, Snow and rain like in reality lay on surfaces anf melting again, not just textures etc. 

And where is it today? ....

 

It's called marketing.