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The problem isn't actually the lights, it's the distance which roads are being loaded too. Street lights are auto-generated nearby streets (contorled by roads.net) , if the street isn't loaded -> lights are also not. That's why hand-placed lights (in a custom scenery) are loaded to the far distance and those auto-generated lights stop somewhere after 10 miles or so.

They never talk about what's coming to next major versions until a few monthe before release. But I guess if they already have working demos , and a major version should have some new big features , it makes sense that those stuff are going into V11 , but it's a pure speculation by me :-) BTW , in one of the betas in 10.40 IIRC , they included by mistake a folder called interface11 and in the next update they removed it , this can be a hint LOL Well I guess they'll also optimize stuff in the rendering engine to make performance better (use more cores on the cpu for rendering calulations etc..)

Sorry for this late comment.. Just wanted to say that your skycolors looks awesome and I hope you'll release those :-)

Nice video! Where did you found cameron's quote about this 737? Maybe IXEG started working on an NG alongside updating the 737CL ??

To try to achieve a photorealistic look FSX/P3D developers uses stuff like baking and cube maps (which consumes alot of resources and time) While it can look awesome sometimes , most of the time it'll just look off. FYI Xplane has a plugin that can add this kind of reflections , FF767 and dden's Challenger 300 have this. PBR basiclly memics real physics and has an effect on everything , in the presentation Ben was focusing on the reflections on the aircraft , however you can see it makes the trees/water/buildings/asphalt/concrete look more natural. So it'll look natural no matter what time or weather ,the final result is much more accurate comparing to what you expect to see in real life. And developers don't need to do all of those baking stuff... This is a better quality and audio video for the new features part:

As I understood from the video... it's not a "half way to real Environemtn Reflections" , it's the hall package. It gets wayyy beyond what FSX/P3D has to offer in this term. Although they look great at some situations , FSX/P3D lightning and reflections looks too cartoony at many other situations. Although the screen shots aren't shown at their best quality through the video camera , I can't emphasize how stunned Im by PBR and it behaves EXCATLY how it should in real life , in different time and weather conditions. 2 Of the 737 pictures were on a sunny day , colors are no longer washed-out , it looks like a true sunny day. Then comes those amazing sunset pictures , not too dark anymore , with colors and reflections are perfect. The cessna pictures are on a gray cloudy day , and again , it looks awesome , not too dark and washed-out colors. Evrything looks just..as my eyes expect it to be in real life Graphics-wise , XP with PBR will easily outrun FSX/P3D/DTGFS or any other simulator... Finally a simulator that looks like modern games! I hope the pictures they showcased will be released to public in full quality.

XP with PBR and ambient occlusion will just kill any other simulator graphics wise.. In terms of lightning and how objects will appear , it's what games like GTA V are using , XP looking like this is a dream comes true! Everyone should be excited , even those who are on FSX/P3D , finally a simulator that is a true "Next gen". Although they didn't talk about times , if they can show pictures it means it's in a very advanced development , so I think this will most likely be V11.

There is a list of things that'll not be in v1.0 but will be in next versions. http://forums.x-pilot.com/forums/topic/8526-things-that-are-not-going-to-be-in-v10/?page=1 also not in v1.03 because all updates for now were hotfixes for bugs.

It's important that we support this kinds of developers. Those guys are one of the best in FSX/P3D , and as you can see they can make even more awesome sceneries in Xplane.

released! http://www.aerosoft.com/cgi-local/us/iboshop.cgi?showd,,D13806

When I said "29palms coming to Xplane" I was actually talking about the group who develops the airport , which happens to be called 29Palms also LOL. http://www.29palms.de/ They have top quality sceneries for FSX , and according to the comment in aerosoft forums the plan is to bring them to Xplane. Another top-notch scenery developer is coming for Xplane and we all should be really excited about it.

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/110467-29palms-scenery-design-ktnp-x-plane/#comment-746131

None of the today simulators depects a sunny day as it should be , even in the outerra shots. I really tried to achieve that with Xplane , but when you raise the GAMMA settings colors tends to be washed-out. This is how it should look like: Although it's GTA V and not a simulator , but it's an example of how lightning should be. The good news are , at least n Xplane's part , I recall the developers at flightsimcon and also at their dev blog talking about taking the lighning model to another level just like modern games (GTA V was mentioned as an example).

Will not come close in which term?

That's just amazing ... thanks! It seems like you have searched for some VFR routes in norway , can you recomend a tour (including airports with a custom scenery) in the fjors starting from the airport you mentioned? This should be nice with the AirfoilLabs C172 :-)