The beauty of X-Plane 12

[jcomm 6,097]

True-2-REAL:

Has this guy used some special shaders or is it default XP12? Wow! Looks like the Real Thing !!!

X-plane 12, Toliss a321, Snow, Departing from Surgut USRR - YouTube

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,318]

5 minutes ago, cagarini said:

True-2-REAL:

Has this guy used some special shaders or is it default XP12? Wow! Looks like the Real Thing !!!

X-plane 12, Toliss a321, Snow, Departing from Surgut USRR - YouTube

Very nice! I think I will mess around with XP12 again at some point this week. See what I can achieve. 

[Bjoern 1,189]

9 hours ago, cagarini said:

True-2-REAL:

Has this guy used some special shaders or is it default XP12? Wow! Looks like the Real Thing !!!

X-plane 12, Toliss a321, Snow, Departing from Surgut USRR - YouTube

Looks all default to me.

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,318]

So, I’ve given it a whirl (minus global forests). And I have to say, Xplane compared to MSFS still has that better feeling of ‘being there’. Less cartoony, for the want of better words.

However, the performance leaves a lot to be desired. FSR at ultra and AA at 4X I was seeing shimmering, and the fps was fluctuating between 42 and 65. That was at EGNT, so hardly a major airport, with real weather (was quite cloudy). I’m running a 4090 with a 7950X, so, expected more. Anyone know if they’re working on performance? If they can get more performance out of it, and I can get some decent ortho, then XP12 will definitely be used by me. 

Edited January 24, 2023 by Ianrivaldosmith

[Bjoern 1,189]

4 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Anyone know if they’re working on performance?

Laminar's public communication performance has been rather lackluster since XP12, so will you accept replies from a magic 8 ball as well?

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,318]

15 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Laminar's public communication performance has been rather lackluster since XP12, so will you accept replies from a magic 8 ball as well?

Shame, because it could do with a boost. (Performance that is). I remember I used to follow the dev blog during XP11 run, that was good sometimes. 

[peroni 547]

1 hour ago, Bjoern said:

Laminar's public communication performance has been rather lackluster since XP12, so will you accept replies from a magic 8 ball as well?

Last post on the dev blog is about 12.00 beta 6.
Shortly after Jennifer left Laminar to pursue her own career and it seems nobody picked up the task of updating it.
Shame because the posts and the discussion that followed were always very informative.

I guess it is all happening behing closed doors in the dev slack channel

What we know
There will be Zink coming which will benefit Linux and Windows platforms
There will be a major weather update
There will be a fix for poor AA / shimmering
There will be 3d grass 
There will be a scenery recut
There will be updated assets
There will be XP13
All of the above and maybe more to be implemented before 2028 🤣🤣

 

Edited January 24, 2023 by peroni

[scotchegg 4,311]

47 minutes ago, peroni said:

What we know
There will be Zink coming which will benefit Linux and Windows platforms
There will be a major weather update
There will be a fix for poor AA / shimmering
There will be 3d grass 
There will be a scenery recut
There will be updated assets
There will be XP13
All of the above and maybe more to be implemented before 2028 🤣🤣

I’m just (!) waiting on the weather and scenery recut.

[Bulva 98]

... and better VR ... 😉

 

[The Flight Level 2,141]

What is meant by scenery recut?

[peroni 547]

7 minutes ago, Bulva said:

... and better VR ... 😉

 

Ah yes better VR support via openXR

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,318]

I take it everyone is just being facetious now as these things are never coming? 

[GoranM 3,837]

21 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I take it everyone is just being facetious now as these things are never coming? 

Laminar are doing a lot by way of additions and fixes. However, you won’t find much mention of it due to NDA’s. 

[peroni 547]

Not being facetious here, these things will come eventually, some soonish, some later. We just need to be a lot patient.

 

[rka 916]

2 hours ago, GoranM said:

Laminar are doing a lot by way of additions and fixes. However, you won’t find much mention of it due to NDA’s. 

Can we reduce the secrecy a bit? LR is clearly not under NDA with regard to XP.

 

3 hours ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I take it everyone is just being facetious now as these things are never coming? 

Never say never, but they may take larger amounts of time. Remember how long the vulkan implementation took in XP11? Considering these time frames, I'd guess that at least some points from the above list will happen rather in XP13 than in XP12.