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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, sdirand said:

    And the bulls**** served by LM at Flight Sim Expo make it worse. As I said, do your works first and don't expect external developpers to make your sim attractive! You are already on the edge with developpers leaving the boat and the only thing you are doing is making their tasks even more difficult and painful. And you expect them to follow? Honnestly, if LM wanted to shotgun their own foot, they would have not done it differently.

    Let's face it, P3D 6.0 is commercially dead on the entertainment side even before being officially released. Who is going to tell me that you are going to invest $60 in that new software on release day? As I said, LM is slowly preparing the user's minds that they will leave the entertainment market for good. Today, I'm really pi***** off!

    Take a chill pill 🙂 It's not really a surprise the consumer market has sailed.

    I don't understand why people are upset they showed up at the expo ... more exhibitors and contributors the better.

    We can enjoy P3D V5.4 as a final send off. LM took care of us when Microsoft did't.

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  4. Posted · Edited by level7

    Forget MSFS and P3DV6! This is the P3D forum and it's pretty clear that P3DV6 isn't just a copy and paste affair.

    What about the promised updates for P3DV5? It seems that time has made people forget that people purchased these products believing that these updates would be delivered. A while back I went to trace the old forum posts so that I wasn't forgetting things.

    Edit: Adding a bit more. If we are being realistic we probably will never see any updates from PMDG on P3D again. However instead of burying things and pretending nothing happened, I think it would be nice if they say, hey guys we fudged, we still love you guys. Everybody who purchased the 737 after the NGXu rebate, the 747, or 777 after the 777-200ER release please see <something> as a token of our appreciation for your support.

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    3 hours ago, bofhlusr said:

    I've wondered if and how flight sims including P3D are played in China and Japan since the Chinese and Japanese have literally thousands of characters.

    'Made in China' products are very competitive, so I've wondered why I haven't come across aircraft and other add-ons developed in China.

     

    I think the iFly development team are Chinese (but not sure where they are based...)

  6. Posted

    21 hours ago, bofhlusr said:

    I've wondered why there are few if any P3D add-ons from developing countries where presumably wages are lower. Is it because of the language barrier?  I've often wondered if there are Chinese and Japanese versions of P3D.

    You are right Chinese incomes are a lot lower than Western countries ... My guess is that X-Plane is probably a better alternative and access to better freeware sceneries through the gateway. There are some great sceneries for China made by WFSceneries but I also cannot imagine these having the universal appeal of other international hubs for western countries.

    That being said I think Chinese translation was a priority task for MSFS so they are aware of the potential...

  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, Pete F said:

    One question that's come up is in regard the Orbx global Base Pack is they do a bundle containing Base, Vector, Buildings, and TerraFlora. The latter isn't of much interest, but I wonder if the others were considered worthwhile? Especially Vector, which I don't understand exactly what that means in any case. Within all of this I do need to keep frame rates reasonable, and keep the whole purpose of why I'm doing this foremost in mind. Clearly the cost is also somewhat of a consideration, otherwise each time I turn it on will cost around $500 if I consider use v total costs.

    Vector is not worth installing for P3D V5 and tends to introduce more problems.

    Buildings and TerraFlora are nice additions they do make the default autogen noticeably better. But maybe fly with default without orbx and see if you can manage.

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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pete F said:

    Awesome, thanks for that. It's just the view out the office window I'm interested in. Ditto for weather I'm afraid as it's really more of a procedures trainer I use this for.

    The Orbx add-ons could be something to try; the Global Base as you suggest. I'm interested in whether the country and ultimately the individual airports are considered worthwhile? Ironically the airports I go to all the time probably aren't of much use, as I know them quite well from real life, but if the airports are accurately modelled that could be very worthwhile for destinations I don't go to often. Taxiing around a large and unfamiliar airport at night is one of the more challenging things we do.

    The default airports in P3D are pretty terrible so it is a nice addition to have airport add-ins for the proper airport layouts, gates and improved textures. The thing is airports can be pretty addictive and then it's hard to stop at just one.

    For navigation data, I would presume that you have your company EFB you can look up charts so you could sign up for Navigraph for a month to get the FMS data. They do have FMS data for the Aerosoft A330. https://navigraph.com/downloads

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  12. Posted

    11 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

    I had no knowledge of the INI Builds A300 until this post brought them to attention. Wanted the A300 for XP12 so not having the A310 is no issue. I guess the freighter version would do but they are pricey - nearly $130AUD makes it more than a bit steep cost wise My main question is no idea about INI and no idea how the look and are finished (web site gallery is a bit limited) - some feedback would be appreciated!

    It was sold for like $10 a few days ago ... please don't pay that price

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  13. Posted

    5 hours ago, Sparkrite said:

    On a closing note, the vast majority of my P3D addons are working correctly with the latest V5.4 version, so how do they manage it?

    ... wasn't this the answer on the previous page:

    23 hours ago, Lorby_SI said:

    For all addons you have to make a decision which SDK build you use for compiling/building/creating them. That is where the "lock" comes from. You can choose to stick with P3D 5.0 SDK - but then your products will not benefit from any improvements that have been introduced. With every new point release of P3D there is a new SDK too, and there are usually fixes mentioned in the release notes concerning the SDK as well, not only in-sim. And when there are mentions of "Fixed CTD when ... does ..." then I definitely want to upgrade...

    So you can either decide to stick to an old SDK version, hoping that every new P3D release is actually backwards compatible (and then scramble madly when it actually isn't 100% compatible and all customers are complaining). Or stay with the "flow" and upgrade your addons to the new SDK when/if necessary every time.

     

  20. Posted

    19 minutes ago, Fragtality said:

    BUT: I'm thinking about adding a Command-Line Switch to the Installer, which would be only documented on GitHub. If an User really know what he's/she's doing there and is aware of the Consequences, the Installer should not force to fail-back on the old and "uncomfortable" Way to install the Plugin.
    I won't make it anything easier though! It is just that Experience shows that some Users tend to fail at the easiest Step, so if there would be a separate Installer or a nice Button in the GUI you can be 99.999% sure that there will be at least one User installing for "X-Plane-only" although it will be used with MSFS 😅

    Maybe "choose the sims you would like to install for?" but agree this is probably a marginal use case, I'm just grateful your utility exists 😀.

  21. Posted

    Thanks Fragtality!

    With the 0.7.9 installer, it made an assumption that because I had MSFS installed that I wanted to install Pilots Deck there but I wanted to install for X-Plane only.

    It would not let me proceed without proceeding without installing Mobiflight. Therefore I just did the manual install. Not a big deal but just pointing it out.

     

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