I hope it can address AI aircraft too... would be great to have them connect to the jetway

8 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

If their system takes advantage of the same change in SU5 that GSX is using, then it will absolutely be 2024 only.

I should clarify this: there's nothing special in SU5 that made this possible, just tiny details that are allowing to work in a less messy way, but that's not the real bulk of it.

In fact, we could make it work in MSFS 2020 as well, but we decided not to, because It would force us to maintain two set of models, two separate build processes, extra tools working in different ways depending on the sim, with the likely increased chance of bugs caused by having to do that, and MSFS 2024 user which are now the majority, rightly complaining they deserve a native product, because we are not even saving or even converting the not-so-old set of jetways we already had in MSFS 2020. Everything will be redone from scratch, from modeling to texturing, clean slate, no leftovers, no conversion, nothing. Going MSFS 2024 only it's only logical, because it makes many things easier for us.

So no, multiple jetways are not coming because some new magic in SDK, those small changes we nice to have, but they are not the main thing.

I would rather say it was an inspiration that came up discussing between FSDT how we could fix the main problem that, if we had a new custom system that would force developers to learn some kind of SDK and have to remodel or just re-export their existing jetways, it would never caught on. No airport developer would want spend any time working at something that 1) requires a payware product to work 2) might be useless if one day MS/Asobo would finally decide to support this natively. That's why we didn't do that 2 years ago and why I always said this was the main reason for not doing, not a technical one, it was the "no developers will follow us" issue.

Instead, we found a way that, not only doesn't require developers to do any extra work to support it, but it's very likely that, if a real native system would ever arrive from Asobo, we would likely be able to enhance that one too, since I wouldn't expect a total change in the system, but rather an extension to support more than a jetway per-gate and, if anything, it they ever did that some day, it would make our work even easier.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by virtuali

8 hours ago, speedyTC said:

Thought as much. Funny how 2020 has been dropped like a hot potato, unlike the longevity we experienced with FSX and P3D. Oh well.

Well, this so-called "longevity" was basically based on the fact that from FSX up to P3Dv3 (or whatever version prior switch to 64bit) was basically using the exact same base engine (ESP). Preventing real evolution. Or do you all forgot about this annoying OOM stories? Prior FSX, a new Microsoft Flight Simulator iteration every two years was default and gold standard... just to remind you of the glorified old days properly ;-)

18 minutes ago, AnkH said:

... just to remind you of the glorified old days properly ;-)

Thanks, Chris.
I've been at this game for a while and my memory hasn't gone to the dogs completely (it does misfire on occasion). However, once again I'm left wondering what happens when MSFS2028 is released. Will that be yet another backwards-incompatible sim?
Ours isn't a low cost hobby especially factoring in the inevitable hardware expenses.

Just the musings of one of the older members of this community.
(Come to think of it, I might not be planetside when '28 rolls around!)

Are they actually going to connect to AI aircraft???

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Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by Tuskin38

I need to ask a clarifying question here on what's coming as I see different things being shown under the umbrella "multi jetway" support.

First, the GSX vid shows 2 lower level jetways connecting to a 777 at the same time. Great!

The Inibuilds screenshot shows 3 jetways of which one is an upper level jetway connected to the A380 upper deck. Even better!

My understanding was that up 'til now GSX only ever supported the lower level jetways and upper level jetways were not possible.

Does this mean upper level jetways will now be supported by GSX or maybe I lost the thread somewhere along the line?
Does this now mean we can connect a dynamic jetway to the upper deck door of a 747-8 (e.g. the default MS/Asobo aircraft) using GSX?

Anyone care to clarify???

6 minutes ago, 787flyer said:

Anyone care to clarify???

GSX Clarified their system can support up to 4 jetways.

8 minutes ago, Lucky38i said:

GSX Clarified their system can support up to 4 jetways.

Thanks. Did they mention in which combinations of lower and upper deck jetways?

7 hours ago, virtuali said:

Instead, we found a way that, not only doesn't require developers to do any extra work to support it, but it's very likely that, if a real native system would ever arrive from Asobo, we would likely be able to enhance that one too, since I wouldn't expect a total change in the system, but rather an extension to support more than a jetway per-gate and, if anything, it they ever did that some day, it would make our work even easier.

Thanks, Umberto! Would implementation be the same as in 2020 (BGLs that only worked with default, unaltered airports) or would it be something more similar to the old FSX/P3D L2 jetways (the ones that replaced every single default jetway in the sim)?

16 minutes ago, 787flyer said:

Thanks. Did they mention in which combinations of lower and upper deck jetways?

it's 4 jetways, I imagine it's in whatever combination you want.