Pastaiolo

I was under the impression that one cannot sell stuff made with the assets Asobo created, but maybe i am wrong? After all aren't payware third parties addons providing only things developed by them? 3d models, textures etc etc ?

That's very subjective. You saw mostly picture previews, this is something different. In DCS too usually the official manual is released (even if still in wip) before the product is released so people can start reading more deepely about the module way of working, its avionics etc etc. I don't consider this to be as "useless" as yet more screenshots, it's something much more useful.

Take the World Tour videos and check those locations, at least all those should be in (however for some i still notice a difference of vivid colours in the video compared to what they look like in the game)

I am afraid World Update goes where users attention is. And usable data too. So i expect at some point Germany for the big spending user base, while secretly hoping for Italy (for the variety of landscapes)

Of course it's something in between. But i think a chunk of the third parties devs got a bit too used to the static environment that FSX offered for years, followed by a bit less static P3D and now MSFS.

Most likely. Still miss helicopters so so badly 😞 With this nice scenery, it's a shame to not have them.

if you have an Nvidia car and Geforce Experience, you can activate an overlay which works in every game, program, desktop and shows exactly what you are looking for

A dude did a similar thing for Italy (at least partially, mostly Tuscany as far as i could see) but i think he is using assets provided by Microsoft and selling the full product (which i thought was something people woudn't be allowed to do?)

That's why i really dislike sim market. No quality control at all.

I am fine either way imho. If there is PG, i can see houses in the shape they really are and with the textures they really have. But of course it depends on the quality of it.

You can say what you want, doesn't make it particulary wise. It does make it 100% elitism, just like as of late we are used to on Avsim. New people are always welcome, without new people this is all gonna end pretty soon. And we all started with nothing, no particular knowledge, no particular skills in aviation, perhaps even used to how planes behaved in movies (which aren't exactly a good representation, in general). If you don't want to deal with them, nobody is forcing you.

Thanks, it was an interesting read. I liked the part regarding parked aircrafts in the airports, it gives some more insight into how painful it gets to ask airliners to represent them in game.

This is all you need to do.

Any developer at one point will announce something that might or might not surprise us, i don't see why PMDG needs a topic and our attention specifically here to speculate over nothing concrete

I was expecting the "manly man never use autopilot" comments much early on here, i am surprised!

That's great news. Finally the simmer master race has prevailed over the game peasants. On their own territory even, since we are talking about Steam!1!!

3 posts, 3 messages promoting your youtube channel. K.

Direct link to a similar wind, in the same position, at the same altitude. https://www.windy.com/?900h,42.775,10.909,7,m:eQPagp1

What are you even talking about? What does this have to do with the topic? Everybody knows by now that such claim is only truthful for locations covered with photogrammetry.

I only said that you can't pick a location, which you have improved with objects, orthos etc etc and compare it with a default scenery. This woudn't work for a famous location, let alone for a location only you probably know about. Ps: i fly helicopters often, i am aware of it and i'll eagerly wait to fly more of them in XP12 with the new lighting and clouds. Those two things will make everything better. So to keep things more in topic, that's what i expect from XP12 (and what we know in some way devs are working on): lighting and clouds. Flight dynamics wise i am pretty happy with what i have in XP.

I don't see the point of this exactly, i can send you the screen in PM if you want 🙂 It looks like nothing special because the location is exactly like that. There is a generic building and the usual orthophoto. What i meant is that there won't be what you added, 3d trees in the vicinity, helicopters and little objects etc etc

That would require the same custom scenery being put in the same spot on MSFS, since your XP shot i assume is not vanilla (judging from the trees, the objects placements and so on)

France and Benelux will come in March, they said it tonight. Also they focus on country wide World Updates so you should be country specific. Personally, and with a good amount of bias i would like to see what past simulators coudn't give me. Italy, Spain, Greece.