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  4. Posted

     

    Thank you I will take a look.  Thank you.

     

     

    First, we are very sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you.
     
    Here are solutions we recommend if you purchased from the REX Store:
     
    1.) If you are using the REX File Transfer Manager tool to download, start it again and under the "Download Type" option select the 2nd option "Use direct download links to download files".  This will provide individual links to download.  You can use your download manager built within your browser to control it at this time.
     
    2.) If option #1 doesn't work on the bottom of the REX File Transfer/Support Manager is a link to "Submit Support Ticket".  Click that link, fill out the form, and submit it.  This will automatically generate a support ticket within our system and we directly contact you with another solution."

     

    Very sorry to hear about the issue:  I will post the suggestions I am giving others if your purchased from our store:

     

    1.) If you are using the REX File Transfer Manager tool to download, start it again and under the "Download Type" option select the 2nd option "Use direct download links to download files".  This will provide individual links to download.  You can use your download manager built within your browser to control it at this time.
     
    2.) If option #1 doesn't work on the bottom of the REX File Transfer/Support Manager is a link to "Submit Support Ticket".  Click that link, fill out the form, and submit it.  This will automatically generate a support ticket within our system and we directly contact you with another solution."

     

    I am very sorry.  Here are two options to speed up the process:

     

     

    1.) If you are using the REX File Transfer Manager tool to download, start it again and under the "Download Type" option select the 2nd option "Use direct download links to download files".  This will provide individual links to download.  You can use your download manager built within your browser to control it at this time.
     
    2.) If option #1 doesn't work on the bottom of the REX File Transfer/Support Manager is a link to "Submit Support Ticket".  Click that link, fill out the form, and submit it.  This will automatically generate a support ticket within our system and we directly contact you with another solution."

    Again first, we are very sorry for the inconvenience this is causing.  There can many reasons for corrupt cab files and it is very hard to pinpoint on LARGE downloads.  "This is a curse for me".
     
    Here are solutions we recommend if you purchased from the REX Store:
     
    1.) If you are using the REX File Transfer Manager tool to download, start it again and under the "Download Type" option select the 2nd option "Use direct download links to download files".  This will provide individual links to download.  You can use your download manager built within your browser to control it at this time.
     
    2.) If option #1 doesn't work on the bottom of the REX File Transfer/Support Manager is a link to "Submit Support Ticket".  Click that link, fill out the form, and submit it.  This will automatically generate a support ticket within our system and we directly contact you with another solution."
     
    If you purchased from another store please do the following:
     
    1.) Please go to our support forum:  http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/forums and submit your request within our forum.  If you are a first time user of our forum.  PLEASE place your order #, product, and store your purchased REX from within your signature.  This will speed up the validation process for us.

     

     

    Problem is now I and a number of others seem to have blown all our activations trying to download. When put my activation number into the download manager it says unable to activate. I have filed a ticket but there was no confirmation that this had been received, either on the download manager screen or by email notification

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    Oh, and I posted this before my morning coffee. Reading it now it seems a bit intense. Apologies for that. 

     

    No, I share your concerns. I bought this morning and have spent the best part of the daylight hours trying to download without success. Now I have blown - it would seem - all my activations without actually downloading a single kb. Problems I can understand, silence about problems I have less tolerance for. 

  8. Posted

    hi, managed to downloads the files ok from flightsim store, however i cannot get through the rex registration process as it does not recognise my name. tried to contact support but site cannot be reached. good start eh.

     

    regards, graeme crawford

     

    Getting a similar problem with serial activation on the REX File Transfer Manager. Guess they are having server issues. Their forums are down too.

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    I hope not, why would Austin re-invent the wheel? Are you absolutely sure about that? Given the size of LR's development team (2), I don't see how they would have the time and resources to re-engineer something like what Sundog already offer?

     

    Ed, Triton (aka Sundog) is used by many AA titles, it's a VERY good engine with 32bit and 64bit support for DX and OGL. It can be made/used (very flexible API/engine) less repetitive but at the cost of performance and memory usage. The demo videos are great, but attempting to replicate that at a global scale (LOD) would induce significant FPS hit.

     

    I'm hoping LR's development major version cycles will shrink ... the industry typically aims at 12-18 months for major version releases. So I'm hoping XP12 will have weather and 4 seasons, but XP11 is a step in the right direction ... for Training purposes it's VERY important to have a good weather depiction at acceptable FPS.

     

    Cheers, Rob.

     

    If you scroll down the comments on the original video posting at the developers blog, you will see a conversation between Frank Kane (who is Sundog) and Ben where Frank is offering advice and assistance to Laminar. Its clear this is a Laminar development. Maybe it keeps cost lower, whilst P3D might be created by Lockheed and has a much larger user base, Laminar is much much smaller and may feel the licensing fee for Triton cannot be justified.

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    What exactly did you post or what was said to you to give you that impression of the org? For the most part it is a good and knowledgable community, but of course like anywhere there are a few bad eggs. 

     

    Some of them tend to be a bit hostile towards newcomers. Questions that might be blindingly obvious to us experienced users are commonly shot down, sometimes by one or two of the admins. This is not good for two reasons, first, X-Plane.org by its very name suggests that it is affiliated with X-Plane.com even though it's not.  Secondly, we need to be encouraging and helping newcomers, not putting them off for life. 

    As you say Tony, the majority are very helpful and knowledgable, however there are a few bad apples, and they seem to make themselves known more than the many good people there. 

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    A question about this new PBR system: Will this allow actual reflective surfaces like polished bare metal that reflect the environment? 

     

    Iconic aircraft often seen in bare metal like the DC-3 and F-104 have never looked right in X-Plane, showing just a dull gray surface. This is something FSX has been able to model reasonably well (if not perfectly) for years. I know there is a plugin out there somewhere to do this now, but it really should be part of the basic sim engine.

     

    I believe so yes. The surfaces, from my understanding of the presentation, will have real time reflections of the surrounding environment. They have also found a way to reduce the GPU load by estimating how reflections will look on lower end systems 

  20. Posted

    This 'freeware spirit' is, to some extent, supported by how X-Plane handles its add-ons (plugins, aircraft, scenery). It'll be very hard to maintain if we go the 'hold-your-hand' installer route (hello, PMDG and X-Aviation...).

     

    I hope XP11 brings some advanced graphical rendering technology, and a better AA solution like SMAA. The current AA options are waaay too hard on some PCs.

     

    Not to mention better weather...

     

    I think that t the "hold your hand" installer route will continue to be more common. The simple reason is that X-Plane as a victim of it's own success will attract more and more pirating. The major devs have right to protect their work and their livelihoods. That said, though the beauty of the plugin system is that it is open for both freeware devs to add non DRM plugins and payware devs to add DRM plugins. The biggest issue I see is as more and more of these plugins get more complex, there will be a problem of one plugin causing crashes for another

  21. Posted

    I think many people expect  "good" aircraft addons to be study-level sims with almost all of the systems modeled and with a flight model as close to reality as possible. I am not  saying that this is bad, because I also like to fly study-level sims and rarely purchase intentionally simplified planes.

     

    But let's be honest: 90% of the time (judging from recordings, live streams and forum posts) people only use 10% of the systems and couldn't even tell if all the indications they see on the displays and gauges are realistic values, or if the flight model is within an envelope which could be expected in the real world. I am not blaming them, I probably don't do it any different.

     

    To put it shortly: People (I, we) want addons as close to the real thing as possible, but in the end they (I, we) don't even remotely make use of all of this. Even if we follow those fancy real-world cold&dark procedures and feel great when caution light XY gets lit when it's upposed to be. :BigGrin:

     

    I think you absolutely hit the nail on the head.

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