If I had made all my purchases updates based on people feelings and emotions, Id still be using a horse and cart and doing the washing using a washing board. If anyone can remember what they are

1 hour ago, Bjoern said:

Tested a few tiles built with 1.4.0 in 12.1.0 but did not see any difference in water areas and shore lines.

That said, with the exception of cloud shadows, I'm generally not seeing any difference regarding water in the first place. Maybe it's not implemented yet.

Thanks for testing. We'll see in the coming days what people are saying over on the .org forums but it doesn't sound like it's worth rebuilding tiles for it then.

4 hours ago, Franz007 said:

Having proven (see above) your psychological skills by attacking people you disagree with on such a rude way, I simply cannot take you seriously anymore.

Very good, you were a true master in knowing how to completely overturn the whole meaning of my speech.
Theater closed.

3 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

Once again, we are seeing a classic perpetrator-victim reversal.

I have never been a victim of xplane.
Personally, I don't care in the slightest if someone tells me that xplane is good or bad, I have an enviable experience in simulation and I know how to judge simulators myself.
Usually the people who cry "victimhood" every time you try to tell the truth about this simulator are others, certainly not me. 

EDIT: Here was a post about beta2 and the changelog but who cares, X-Plane junk beta.

Edited May 16, 20242 yr by Sethos

Ok we are now on 12.1,02 (beta). Two immediate issues for my system (Intel 5090 and RTX 2070 Super) - Light glare in full or strong light conditions sun seems over done, In external view if I use the sunglasses option, it tones it down and cleans up the clarity but if you return to the cockpit you need to take them off again. No issues with dark cockpits and for most models AA is fine in fact a huge improvement. Clouds and weather dynamics unable to say still chasing down real time weather where I can really assess this, superficially seems good. 

The big issue for me and it is reported at the Org is a significant drop in performance (FPS)  in high density landscapes or airports (Major cities and large airports) I am seeing the system struggle to get above 25-30 fps. I tried a number of different locals and sim models and on my system the average drop is about 30 fps on all situations everywhere. Sim flow is smooth but no stutters. I used to easily get 60 -80 FPS with previous versions but this one is a real memory hog. 

I also noted I am getting ground texture blurries which suggests a VRAM issue has developed as well (bottleneck?) and had to wind back all the various loads on the graphics sliders to get some clarity back. 

I also noted that there is a new tool to basically give you camera style focal control  of the visual picture (F stops) and change of focus (depth of field) - interesting but what is the point unless I want to take a  special screenshot? 

Seems there may be additional issues for addons impacting performance negatively now - like ORBX forests and not sure where this all goes in terms of some changes to stock buildings etc with SimHeaven and some issues there as well. 

As it is Beta - none of the above are bad or showstoppers but the performance bust is a big surprise!

The most controversial part of .1.0 (bloom) apparently has an XPD  https://developer.x-plane.com/x-plane-bug-database/?issue=XPD-15409 

Sounds like it will get some additional capability to make it "easier to tune".

 

Another thing that was tweaked in .1.0 is runway lighting. Not sure if it's the AA or bloom algorithm but in the past when looking at those lights off-axis they used to flicker and kind of..."sparkle(?)". The airport lighting was already industry-leading in visual quality when looking head-on. It took another step forward.

Few things that I noticed:

1) FXAA is always ON when MSAA is used, one of the side effects of FXAA is that the image is a bit blurry/soft, you can turn it off using a dataref but I really do hope LR gets the option in the UI back.

2) AA for alphas (i.e. trees, fences...) Is really improved, I run 3440X1440p 4X MSAA, any aliasing remaining is related to specular reflections (ehm TAA...but they can try to smooth it using filters a bit more).

3) I'm almost sure shadow distance for exterior views has doubled, I recall in 12.0.9 that it used to be 500M, now 1KM. A new shadow tech is definitely needed imo but the current shadows lipstick improvements are welcomed for now.

Edited May 17, 20242 yr by Inu

This video was supposedly recorded in beta1, and looks just great !  Don't you think ?

[X-Plane 12] XP12.1 Beta-1's New Look | SR22 | Meta Quest 3 RTX 4080S (youtube.com)

3 hours ago, jcomm said:

This video was supposedly recorded in beta1, and looks just great !  Don't you think ?

[X-Plane 12] XP12.1 Beta-1's New Look | SR22 | Meta Quest 3 RTX 4080S (youtube.com)

Absolutely. But keep it for you; you will upset those who cannot stand any positive feedbacks 😉

1 minute ago, Franz007 said:

Absolutely. But keep it for you; you will upset those who cannot stand any positive feedbacks 😉

I think I am always ready to say good as well as not so good or bad things about pretty much any sim ... 🙂

26 minutes ago, jcomm said:

I think I am always ready to say good as well as not so good or bad things about pretty much any sim ... 🙂

That's how it should be. But try to bash XP in your next comment otherwise it will soon be perceived as glorifying and circle-jerking...😄

 

21 hours ago, Sethos said:

Thanks for testing. We'll see in the coming days what people are saying over on the .org forums but it doesn't sound like it's worth rebuilding tiles for it then.

I too am waiting for some more information and new standards for tile generation settings in O4XP 1.4.

On 5/16/2024 at 10:31 PM, turbomax said:

very true. except that buggy anti-aliasing and huge blobs of clouds that look like the black mountains instead of evening clouds are not an opinion but a fact, supported with screenshots. 😃

And have you reported it to LR now? That’s what betas are made for.

1 hour ago, Franz007 said:

That’s what betas are made for.

good to know, I'll have to remember that.