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April 8, 20242 yr Why on earth would one put an eclipse in a flight sim, or is this just the usual trolling??
April 8, 20242 yr 29 minutes ago, mjrhealth said: Why on earth would one put an eclipse in a flight sim, or is this just the usual trolling?? “Put” is the wrong idea. In our flightsim, if seasons, lunar activity and sun activity are a true thing, then the eclipses would happen “organically” within the sim. All this because the moon and sun interact with the world that we are flying over. It would pretty much showcase the coding and design of an active earth, sun and moon relationship within the sim. Instead of faked stuff. FAA: ATP-ME, 737 CA, enough time in the 757/767 to be dangerous 🤠 Matt Kubanda, 7950X3D, 64GB RAM, RTX 5090@4k, MSFS 2024
April 8, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, ahsmatt7 said: “Put” is the wrong idea. In our flightsim, if seasons, lunar activity and sun activity are a true thing, then the eclipses would happen “organically” within the sim. All this because the moon and sun interact with the world that we are flying over. It would pretty much showcase the coding and design of an active earth, sun and moon relationship within the sim. Instead of faked stuff. given the effort that has gone in to celestial navigation generally, they would probably take a bug report if it doesn't "just work" AutoATC Developer
April 9, 20242 yr Commercial Member If it isn't in X-Plane, submit a bug report, and they might be able to do it. Edited April 9, 20242 yr by GoranM
April 9, 20242 yr Author 12 hours ago, mjrhealth said: Why on earth would one put an eclipse in a flight sim, or is this just the usual trolling?? By the same token, why should I care for cars on roads, peolple inside the airport, and other nit-picky features ... It's just a feature, and it could mean a realistic representation of the main astronomical companions of our Earth, and a total eclipse does impact aviation because of the obscuration and temperature variation, although those aren't hugely important factors for IFR fights... But I ended up finding out that actually someone at the LR team did care to represent it, but they're too busy with 12.1, and that is more than acceptable: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/303630-eclipse-on-the-8th-of-april/&do=findComment&comment=2690582 Edited April 9, 20242 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 9, 20242 yr Moderator @jcomm, it's the other sim, but it looks like there was a watch party there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88PK7cd8nw
April 9, 20242 yr Author 15 minutes ago, tonywob said: @jcomm, it's the other sim, but it looks like there was a watch party there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88PK7cd8nw 🤣 I am not in the mood to install it just to test but, since ages, Flightgear did it really nice, including the obscuration ... Edited April 9, 20242 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 9, 20242 yr XP apparently needs the latest update to https://x-plane.to/file/769/rxp-xp12-enhancer to emulate it AutoATC Developer
April 9, 20242 yr 21 hours ago, mjrhealth said: Why on earth would one put an eclipse in a flight sim, or is this just the usual trolling?? I think your response is trolling in itself. Considering flight sims model the moon and sun, why would you not expect the moon to pass in front of the sun? CPU Ryzen 7800X 3D RAM 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz GPU GEFORCE RTX 4090 Monitor AOC AGON AG352UCG UltraWide G-Sync @ 3440x1440 Internal Storage 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD External Storage Three 4Tb HDs
April 9, 20242 yr I thought you're talking about the Aerobask Eclipse jet 🙂 Maybe there will be an xp12 version someday... | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
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