Early morning flight over south wales heading East towards the rising Sun.

 

Later in the flight over Eastern England the sun was a little higher so the ground textures and autogen colours were warming up.

Someone doesn't seem happy with the low thread count the best thing since sliced bread's getting 😃 

26 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Later in the flight over Eastern England the sun was a little higher so the ground textures and autogen colours were warming up.

Especially this one looks like I have observed Earth from above during some flights at a local airfield. The view from a plane usually isn't colourful like a lolly 🍭😀 (unless you take photos and post process them).

Team Laminar should be really proud of themselves with what they have achieved with the visuals. That screenshot looks very close to what you actually see from your aircraft window. Insane...

Looks like a nice commission check will be headed to your mailbox soon ……..😉

Everyone should be happy with what they're using. I'm sure if it were just left up to the developers, they'd each be congratulating each other on a job well done for each new release. As it is, the most vocal element of any community are the (word not allowed beginning with 'f' and ending with 's') which stir discontent and feed from the inevitable fallout between camps. Laminar, Asobo and even LM have done a fantastic job on their respective projects, especially given the formers budget and team size. Don't pay any attention to the naysayers as you're only playing into their hands by doing so. Just fly and enjoy 🙂

Edited September 14, 20223 yr by tronied

The video and the picture look great but keep in mind this is not what you get out of the box.
You need to learn how to produce your ortho imagery and possibly a replacement for the default autogen.

From here and until release it can only get better, my only concern being the non-beta release might be several months away 

Edited September 14, 20223 yr by peroni

The above point cannot be emphasized enough. This is not XP12 realism. It's XP12 with Ortho and XEurope realism and this added realism, that XP does not deliver itself, comes at a hefty fps cost (not counting the time to make ortho and the money for something to store it).

Threads like this are misleading uninformed customers.

29 minutes ago, rka said:

The above point cannot be emphasized enough. This is not XP12 realism. It's XP12 with Ortho and XEurope realism and this added realism, that XP does not deliver itself, comes at a hefty fps cost (not counting the time to make ortho and the money for something to store it).

Threads like this are misleading uninformed customers.

The point also shouldn't be overemphasized.  The pix are a good example of what is already possible in the XP12 beta just with the addition of a couple free add-ons (and HDD storage for ortho files is pretty cheap if you don't already have it).

I believe the range of what is possible is what the vast majority of us here are most interested in...far more than the tired old "but it doesn't do that by default" red-herring arguments made mostly by people trying to stir the pot who don't fly any sim in its purely default state either.

Looks like with a little help from Orbx?  I haven't bought XP12 yet, although I will certainly be doing so in the future.  From a visuals standpoint, no XP will probably never look as good as MSFS.  But I really don't care because with XP I don't have to put up with all of the frustrations with MSFS which is basically stored in the cloud ... compared to XP which is physically stored on my computer.  I am a control freak who wants to have a say of if and when I update the product.

Cool video, the lighting effects look great.

Haven't purchase XP 12 yet, however I did try the demo, it runs quite good with my setup, just waiting for it to mature a bit. 

Edited September 14, 20223 yr by CarlosF

12 minutes ago, PDX Flyer said:

From a visuals standpoint, no XP will probably never look as good as MSFS.

That is your opinion and that is ok. In my opinion it already looks better visually with accurate lighting and color saturation as compared to the over vibrant and often washed out look of MSFS. Now with the orthos and simheaven, that is cherry on top and Xplane 12 becomes a complete package. I have been using MSFS since it's Alpha release but after trying Xplane 12, I haven't fired it up once.

20 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

Now with the orthos....

And this, for many people (including myself), is the problem.  Don't get me wrong, I spend most of my flying time in the Zibo but still love MSFS for low and slow.

11 minutes ago, lzamm said:

And this, for many people (including myself), is the problem.  Don't get me wrong, I spend most of my flying time in the Zibo but still love MSFS for low and slow.

Xplane 12 have improved their art assets aswell. You can definitely do low and slow in Xplane 12 aswell and it looks absolutely gorgeous if not better than MSFS melted scenery. You just need simheaven's Xplane 12 update and orthos. Take a look in the screenshots section. I have posted some pics of my vfr flying in Switzerland.

2 hours ago, rka said:

The above point cannot be emphasized enough. This is not XP12 realism. It's XP12 with Ortho and XEurope realism and this added realism, that XP does not deliver itself, comes at a hefty fps cost (not counting the time to make ortho and the money for something to store it).

Threads like this are misleading uninformed customers.

I find your comments quite odd because MSFS doesn't come with ortho 'out the box' either, it is downloaded every time you use it.  My fps when I took that screenshot was about 70fps.  Over large cities I get 30 - 40fps. My MSFS is locked at 33fps.  Have you not added realism to MSFS with addons?