XP12: the good, the bad, the ugly

[soaring_penguin 431]

when I said that the next big update will contain additional terrain, I didn’t mean a complete rework with AI generated terrain.

LR already confirmed that scenery wise, important parts are missing and those will be added in (one of) the next beta.

I hope this will include all three: ground textures, buildings and higher resolution mesh.

[Humpty 752]

Bad sim , no rotor effects on trees 😞 

[jcomm 6,051]

38 minutes ago, Humpty said:

Bad sim , no rotor effects on trees 😞 

and even worst.... No Gals in bikini on beaches 😞

 

[Baber20 1,496]

12 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Confirmed, no shadows here on autogen or trees with all settings high/maxed.

Just found this interesting post. Looks like you can manually increase the shadow draw distance. Take a look here https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/203998-scenery-shadow-lod/&do=findComment&comment=1853380

Edited September 11, 2022 by Baber20

[HiFlyer 9,409]

7 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

Just found this interesting post. Looks like you can manually increase the shadow draw distance. Take a look here https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/203998-scenery-shadow-lod/&do=findComment&comment=1853380

But there were plugins that allowed you to do that in XP 11 as well. You could also do things like reduce road traffic to increase frame rates, etc etc.

Since xp12 seems to be essentially XP 11 with mods, it's probably safe to assume that all that other stuff is available beneath the hood as well.

[turbomax 3,340]

24 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

xp12 seems to be essentially XP 11 with mods

😀

[Sethos 4,624]

Has anyone experienced oddities with rain using real world weather and rain on windshield?

Like, sometimes I see the puddles on the ground, hear the patter of rain on the plane, even rain outside but sitting in the cockpit, I see no rain and nothing on the windshield. Other times, I see puddles but hear nothing, yet if you move the camera around fast enough, you see what appears to be streaks of rain? There's just this weird disconnect in the rain effects I feel.

Right now I'm sitting at EKCH. I hear the rain, it's thumping away on the roof of the cockpit but windshield is clean and I see nothing visually outside. Reported as no precip but sim seems to trigger the sounds anyway. 

Edited September 11, 2022 by Sethos

[jcomm 6,051]

I had a CTD today - my first with XP12 since I installed it yesterday.

An email to LR was automatically assembled, and I sent it and hope for the report to help identifying the glitch.

Other than that, XP12 is running amazingly smooth in my rig,  I am enjoying the weather rendering, the Sky Colours, the effects on the aircraft, the way the aircraft feel.... 

[tonywob 4,778]

4 hours ago, Humpty said:

Bad sim , no rotor effects on trees 😞 

Does any sim do this out of curiosity? I've never noticed. It would be cool 

[Humpty 752]

6 minutes ago, tonywob said:

Does any sim do this out of curiosity? I've never noticed. It would be cool 

I think DCS ,  need to recheck 

[jcomm 6,051]

17 minutes ago, Humpty said:

I think DCS ,  need to recheck 

No Humpty, the trees in DCS shake because of the guys hiding inside of the bushes  and under the tress shaking of fear / terror as soon as they realise it could be Zulfi approaching the area at the controls of an heli....

Edited September 11, 2022 by jcomm

[Humpty 752]

7 minutes ago, jcomm said:

No Humpty, the trees in DCS shake because of the guys hiding inside of the bushes  and under the tress shaking of feer / terror as soon as they realise it could be Zulfi approaching the area at the controls of an heli....

Yeah that could be it . They know I am always in vrs and will crash on them

[Randall 85]

3 hours ago, Sethos said:

Has anyone experienced oddities with rain using real world weather and rain on windshield?

Like, sometimes I see the puddles on the ground, hear the patter of rain on the plane, even rain outside but sitting in the cockpit, I see no rain and nothing on the windshield. Other times, I see puddles but hear nothing, yet if you move the camera around fast enough, you see what appears to be streaks of rain? There's just this weird disconnect in the rain effects I feel.

Right now I'm sitting at EKCH. I hear the rain, it's thumping away on the roof of the cockpit but windshield is clean and I see nothing visually outside. Reported as no precip but sim seems to trigger the sounds anyway. 

I’ve seen this also.  Need to send in a bug report. 

[Bjoern 1,176]

1 hour ago, tonywob said:

Does any sim do this out of curiosity? I've never noticed. It would be cool 

FlightGear does it on grass, maybe even on trees.

[HiFlyer 9,409]

15 hours ago, Randall said:

Shadows in the beta are only rendered for objects close to your plane, about 1000 ft.

LOD's for the new trees is also very aggressive.