/Allow me to begin preparing my playlist for the first Multiplayer event.  😁

 

Edited October 4, 20223 yr by Waldo Pepper

Well, that video kind of seals the deal for me!  

If you want all locations flight you can find them on my version : 

 

 

Edited October 4, 20223 yr by AerOdyssey

29 minutes ago, AerOdyssey said:

If you want all locations flight you can find them on my version : 

 

 

So,  Did you guys do a multiplayer flight with all the testers?   Just wondering if that's how you made the video,  how multiplayer events would work out with everyone more or less spawning in the same location.   Usually we taxi and form a staging line before departure,   to maintain some separation.   I guess everyone could just slew for a few split seconds at the start.   Love to know how that worked out.  👍

edit:  It's going to be serene to sit near local hubs and watch / hear traffic peacefully pass you by on their way,   while looking at FR24 to see where they're heading to / arriving from.   10/10.

At work I'm in the traffic pattern for KPHL,   and sometimes I use FR24's VR feature in the mobile app to find out where they're coming from.   You point your camera at a passing aircraft and it gives you the flight data.   A flight from London just passed by.

You picked some fantastic locations for the vid.

/I love how the bag inflates instead instead of already being inflated.

Edited October 4, 20223 yr by Waldo Pepper

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HPG HOT AIR BALLOON

The Hype Performance Group Hot Air Balloon will cost $15 USD and will be released this Friday, October 7th exclusively via our website.

Background

The hot air balloon was the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France.

Highly Detailed 3D Model, Textures and Animations

Professionally modeled with incredible interior and exterior details

17 liveries included, all at 4K resolution and with PBR textures inside and out

Fully animated cockpit and animations for inflation, deflation, stall and collapse

Animated 3D humans including a hot air balloon operator and 2 passengers

Designed and optimized for VR with great FPS performance, working VR Cockpit Zoom and proper visual scaling throughout the model

Avionics & Systems

Steam gauges showing barometric altitude, vertical speed and envelope thermometer

Available AI pilot that can control the hot air balloon based off terrain or altitude

EFB tablet included with maps and additional apps available

Balloonist Maps App: shows GPS speed and track

Little NavMap App: connect to LNM, the free open source flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system

Nearby Radio Stations: listen to radio stations local to the area you’re currently flying in

Hot Air Balloon Flight Model

Fully integrated internal hot air balloon flight model and envelope simulation

Power Plant: 2x 12 million BTU burners with realistic visual and sound effects

Immersive Sounds

Realistic burner and environmental soundsded

Bonus Features

Launch fireworks with realistic visual and audio smoke and explosion effects

Create other nearby AI flown HPG Hot Air Balloons on demand

HPG Hot Air Balloon can be set to follow a MSFS flight plan or current wind conditions

 

Edited October 4, 20223 yr by Waldo Pepper

One thing I hope the devs will implement is the external sound also audible inside the balloon basket. I saw Chewwy's video where he had set some strong winds. You could hear the wind noise in external cam but not inside the basket. I guess this also means no bird sounds over forests and urban sounds over city's, but only audible from ext. cam? Looking forward to this!

Edited October 4, 20223 yr by Gerwil

Meh. I'm good. Still not sending a dime to them.

25 minutes ago, Gerwil said:

One thing I hope the devs will implement is the external sound also audible inside the balloon basket. I saw Chewwy's video where he had set some strong winds. You could hear the wind noise in external cam but not inside the basket. I guess this also means no bird sounds over forests and urban sounds over city's, but only audible from ext. cam? Looking forward to this!

Thanks for the feedback, our team has already been discussing increasing the volume level for the internal views.

 

20 minutes ago, styckx said:

Meh. I'm good. Still not sending a dime to them.

I am asking this 100% genuinely, no snark intended....what exactly did we do to you to warrant this comment?

21 minutes ago, HPG said:

I am asking this 100% genuinely, no snark intended....what exactly did we do to you to warrant this comment?

I just simply don't like you or HPG. I don't owe you any explanation.

2 minutes ago, styckx said:

I just simply don't like you or HPG. I don't owe you any explanation.

All they've done is release excellent addons.

1 hour ago, styckx said:

Meh. I'm good. Still not sending a dime to them.

 

37 minutes ago, styckx said:

I just simply don't like you or HPG. I don't owe you any explanation.

If you have some basis for your disdain it would be nice to share it for those of us who have no knowledge of this company. But to just drop a stinky word not allowed (rhymes with curd) and walk away as if you have clean hands is pretty BS in my opinion. And even more so when the dev respectfully asked you for some feedback!

Edited October 5, 20223 yr by Flypops

2 hours ago, HPG said:

You could hear the wind noise in external cam but not inside the basket.

I'm certainly no expert in hot air ballooning, but the two times I did, the thing that was most surprising was the lack of wind and wind noise. Of course we weren't in a typhoon, but can't say that a balloon would be my first choice of transportation if I was in one. 

5 hours ago, Gerwil said:

One thing I hope the devs will implement is the external sound also audible inside the balloon basket. I saw Chewwy's video where he had set some strong winds. You could hear the wind noise in external cam but not inside the basket. I guess this also means no bird sounds over forests and urban sounds over city's, but only audible from ext. cam? Looking forward to this!

I wonder if he had headphone simulation turned on in the audio options.

Do you hear the wind in a hot air balloon? Honest question!