Aerodynamic

I wish it had more wing flex. The 777 doesn't look right with droopy wings in the air. :blink:

I'm impressed so far. There are a couple things I'd really like to see added in XPX. First off, a better default GPS. The one included now sucks and has severely limited functionality. Austin needs to get that in the works ASAP. I fly in the 3D pit view and I'd like to have a more functional GPS to use for flight plans and procedures. The second item I hope for is not really an XPX complaint per se, but I'd like a more thorough library of objects for editing scenery. I downloaded the Openscenery X package and was very disappointed. Everything I looked for was not included. I'm researching now on how to make my own objects and import them into scenery, but I am not an "artist" and I usually prefer to spend time flying instead of tweaking.

I had a hard time locating this as well, but I was able to snag it from their web site several weeks ago. I can't find the site now where I got it - maybe it's not currently up. Repaints are available here in the library. If you PM me with your email address I can send the base model to you.

Will there be wing flex? Love the massive triple seven wing flex on the real bird.

I'm using an Nvidia GTX 460 Superclocked Edition with the 295.73 driver. It appears that Simon was on the right track. I tested using the Carenado Bonanza, Carenado Mooney, and the default 747-400. No reflections. Then I switched to the default Baron and default Cessna 172 and the reflections were there. So I guess it does depend on the aircraft?

Actually your video was the one I saw before I posted. Haha! Anyway, I've tried HDR on, HDR off, all kinds of stuff. No luck for some reason.

What's the trick to get the strobe lights to reflect off the pavement? I've seen it in lots of user videos, but I can't seem to get that effect for some reason.

I'm new to X-Plane and ordered my copy of X-Plane 10 from X-Aviation. Many of the staff were at a conference and this delayed the same-day shipping that I expected. However, I received emails from X-Aviation explaining the situation as well as a follow up email to make sure I was satisfied. I found it to be very professional. Stick, you should try contacting them once more. Or perhaps you'll get a response from someone on here. I am sure X-Aviation will make it right. Maybe just bad luck?

I'm getting some jaggies on certain terrain areas that cause obnoxious shimmering. It's specifically areas that are fields/rural areas. Anyone else having this? I've got everything looking great except this annoying little piece. It's almost like certain "tiles" are not even with the areas next to it. Thanks for any info on a possible fix.

You should not need to overclock it. Any new computer these days should run X-Plane 10 well, provided you have a decent video card. I'm on an older setup (Q9550 GTX460) and I am running mid-high settings + HDR at 30 fps and I am amazed how awesome the environment looks.

I notice that as well. The fix for the moving cloud shadows is to set water reflection to none. Doesn't look as pretty, but it gets rid of the screwy visual effect. I'm torn between excellent AA with HDR off and no water reflections, or poor AA with HDR on and full water reflections. I mght have to get used to shimmering autogen to take advantage of the recent performance improvements regarding HDR.

Quick update. I found out tonight that using AA in the application does work the best. I changed my Nvidia Control Panel back to application controlled. The issue was due to the fact that I did not close X-Plane first and restart it after making adjustments. It did not state in rendering options that it was necessary, but that fixed my issue. Too bad HDR still causes some shimmering. Maybe that will improve in a future update. Time to start looking for scenery and aircraft. It's really looking good now. :(

In the version I have (I think it's 10.04 rc1), it appears they now prevent you from doing this. The standard in-app AA changes to the HDR AA setting when you click to enable HDR AA. I hope I am explaining that correctly. It was late last night when I was experimenting with all this, so it's likely that I was utilizing minimal brain activity. :(

Hey Alex. What's weird is that I get better results with overriding AA in the Nvidia Control Panel. If I use the application AA with HDR off, I get terrible jaggies. Much worse than with HDR on the medium AA setting. That actually looks decent, but the roads have jaggies as I fly around. Like you, I am not able to run the highest AA with HDR on. I have only monkeyed with this for one night so far and I am not going to be able to get back to the computer to test anything else for a few hours. Until then, I'm open to any and all suggestions.

Got my copy of X-Plane 10 this week. :( I installed it yesterday and started diving into the rendering options. What the best way is to set up XPX for the best visual quality? I seem to be able to run it well, but I am struggling a bit to get the AA/filtering settings to my liking. Should I let the Nvidia Control Panel do the work or let the XPX application? Just curious what others are doing to avoid jaggies and shimmering. I'd like to use HDR, but I seem to get more jaggies with it. XPX looks great with and without it, anyway. For what it's worth, I am running a GTX460 (current driver) and my monitor native res is 1680 X 1050. Thanks for any info.