Release candidate 4

• XPD-13575 – Alpha-blended LIT are very dim when light level is modulated.
• XPD-12364 – Cockpit is incorrectly exposed (autoexposure bug).
• XPD-13565 – Citation X: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13564 – B738: Initialize annunciators at DIM for night.
• XPD-13562 – Baron B58: Light adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13560 – A330 VRCONFIG error.
• XPD-13535 – Translucent annunciators on panel are dim at night – RotateRite MD-11.
• XPD-13531 – Race in replay’s entity creation.
• XPD-13498 – Nav lights on F-14 Tomcat are clipping in some exterior views.
• XPD-13496 – NAV Lights are too bright on entire fleet.
• XPD-13581 – Windsocks too bright at night.
• XPD-13579 – Vans RV10: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13573 – Stinson L5: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13572 – S76: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13571 – R22: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13570 – PA18: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13569 – Evo: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13568 – SF50: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13567 – SR22: Lighting fixes for ev5.
• XPD-13566 – C172: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13563 – Kingair: Lighting adjustments for ev5.
• XPD-13561 – ALIA-250: Integral light (backlight) too intense for ev5.
• XPD-13546 – updated luminance for skyscrapers and urban terrain LIT.
• XPD-13544 – X-Plane segfault entering a weight for a flightplan with no waypoints.
• XPD-13543 – X-Plane segfault when trying to save current flightplan on Citation X.
• XPD-13542 – Need photo attenuation exposed in a dataref.
• XPD-13541 – instrument brightness is hard cut at 0.1%.
• XPD-13537 – m_zulu_time out of bounds!
• XPD-13536 – New v12 assets (legacy terminal facades 4-6 replacement).
• XPD-13533 – Cockpit devices with different luminance are merged.
• XPD-13507 – From Bug Report: Copilot Yaw does not move nose wheel – only moves rudder.
• XPD-13501 – KingAir glare shield looks like bubble wrap.
• XPD-13481 – No runways shoulders still draws 1m shoulders.
• XPD-13231 – Heliport and seaport symbols disappear on map zoom-in.
• XPD-13555 – 737 engine driven elec generator breakers can be operated without the generator producing power.

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-00-release-notes/#Release_candidate_4

lighting much better 👍

2 minutes ago, UKflyer said:

lighting much better 👍

Absolutely 

Have to check it.

RC3 brought light flashes that happen erratically. Some sessions have none, others are full of it to the point of having to stop XP12.

 

much improved lighting  in the cockpit. And performance so far.

Massive improvement all around. Lighting just keeps on improving with each update. Cockpit lighting is so much better. They also improved water shading. Impressive work by Laminar.

1 hour ago, Baber20 said:

Cockpit lighting is so much better

You think so?

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Edited December 13, 20223 yr by UKflyer

2 hours ago, Baber20 said:

Massive improvement all around. Lighting just keeps on improving with each update. Cockpit lighting is so much better. They also improved water shading. Impressive work by Laminar.

Agreed! Cloud opacity is much better too.

Hi,

No ATIS at KEWR, can someone confirm this? I'm also using X-ATC Chatter.

Thanks

button illumination in the zibo looks really good, unless i missed it before

Edited December 13, 20223 yr by UKflyer

There's still an FPS drop at dusk, about 10FPS.

The blacks and whites are on point. This new tone mapper is really doing some heavy lifting. It feels like the dynamic range and color depth got improved. The auto exposure system is working really well too.

Edited December 13, 20223 yr by Baber20

...and looks like they fixed some more things not on the list cause with my AMD gpu I have the normal fps back again and not stuck at 20fps anymore. Interesting as there seems no related fix note but anyway. Its usable again for me and thats good! And I can't confirm the drop at night. For me its the other way around now. Getting even around 5fps more than in daylight.

Happy flying

Cheers T.

I'm stunned. Got smooth VR performance with SteamVR (left it active in the command line accidentally), even in the A330 and with clouds! All that with 1080ti and Quest 2. Before RC4 it was a stutter/jitter fest.
Future is bright. Can't imagine the heaven with 3080/3090/4080/4090 cards.

Edited December 14, 20223 yr by Pe11e