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I been using TG since beta. The addon is amazing however I stopped using it due to frequent sim crash "art control draw error". When I turn off TG, my sim is rock stable.

In X-Plane unofficial subreddit the author MarStrMind responded to many questions regarding this Proof Of Concept. He describes this as "It is a ground texture generator using photorealistic resources for flight simulator". He has contacted Laminar, Orbx and other vendors. The idea is fascinating and looks like the current X-Plane 12 scenery is one of the limitation. The size of each tile is not going to work for me, with current hard drive price. The tech is promising and when X-Plane release the new scenery architecture, the author should be able to adopt. I fly using default scenery. I personally can't stand Ortho due to the inconsistency so this type of tech would be perfect for me. Here is the intro video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpNNGXuzknk

I am a bit lost why this streamer are testing without installing the NA package.

I am sure most of you saw the announcement about live traffic for other sims provided by Navigraph. This is now available for X-Plane as well. Here is the article that explains it in detail https://navigraph.com/blog/traffic-xplane Great news and further value prop for having an active Navigraph sub.

This is a very exciting development. Using Google Map API key (paid product) this program download and inject photogrammetry in X-Plane 12. See the demo video below. This could be a stop gap measure until Laminar Research release next gen scenery. GitHubGitHub - fishstickle/neighborhoods: Neighborhoods scenery...Neighborhoods scenery generator for XPlane. Contribute to fishstickle/neighborhoods development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here is one of the preview using the free test demo . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcrmGbs8ipA

@SayAgain signature "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan"

Exactly! I am also a XP gateway contributor and having this new addon that enhances my existing work is a big welcome. It is a big win for the XP end user.

Per the reporter in threshold, the developer has managed to create a program that reads and understands the global airports, procedurally generating overlays that greatly enhance the experience with tire skids on taxi routes, runways, and service roads, additional clutter at gates and near buildings, grunge, oil leaks, rust, and random ramp clutter, yielding a more lifelike experience around every airport in the simulator" This is going to be day 1 buy, actually free upgrade for me. I loved this addon back in XP 11 days that gave a big lift to the ugly default assets.

Same one from XP11, I am also using.

Jokes aside, I use a replacement texture that makes the prop transparent.

0:07:50.227 I/SIM: Exiting the sim without confirmation 0:07:50.227 D/STM: Transitioning from state state_Normal to state_ShuttingDown 0:08:01.678 G64: core: Run: [OnBeforeXPSavePrefs] 0:08:01.698 G64: core: Run: [OnBeforeXPSavePrefs] AutoDGS: airport.cpp:482: Airport 'KSEA' destructed 0:07:50.227 FSCharter V2 DEBUG XP_Main.cpp:254/XPluginDisable: Disabling... 0:07:50.227 FSCharter V2 DEBUG FSC_API.cpp:1690/APIDisable: Waiting for threads to finish... 0:07:50.227 FSCharter V2 DEBUG FSC_API.cpp:1697/APIDisable: Threads finished. 0:07:50.227 FSCharter V2 WARN FSC_API.cpp:925/DebugLogRawClose: DEBUG Stopped logging raw network data 0:07:50.227 FSCharter V2: FSCharter disabled FlyWithLua Info: Load exit file. FlyWithLua Info: ** Aircraft closed. Exiting Saitek script for L.R. C172. Logitech 'XPlane Plugin.1.2.6.0' not found via Signature. Logitech Saitek plugin is not installed so nothing to reenable. FlyWithLua Info: Exit file loaded. FlyWithLua Info: deinitFmodSupport() FmodSounds.size = 0 FlyWithLua Info: deinitFmodSupport() Should be 0 now FmodSounds.size = 0 FlyWithLua Info: FlyWithLua plugin disabled. 0:08:01.882 G64: core: Plugin Disabled. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. [SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector]: Dataref is illegal and cannot be unregistered. 92552000 SPAD::INFO XPLMInterface: XPluginDisable 92552000 SPAD::INFO ServiceWorker: Stop Flightloop 92552000 SPAD::INFO Internal.BackgroundWorker: Stopsignal to all workerthreads 92552000 SPAD::INFO Internal.BackgroundWorker: Stopping all workerthreads 15:37:15.635660 StableApproach [DEBUG] XPluginDisable_begin 15:37:15.635660 StableApproach [DEBUG] Deconstruct StableApproach.class START 15:37:15.635660 StableApproach [ERROR] Exception in EarthNav.class: AptLoader: invalid argument: invalid argument 15:37:15.635660 StableApproach [ERROR] Exception in EarthNav.class: NavLoader: invalid argument: invalid argument 15:37:15.666394 StableApproach [DEBUG] Deconstructed StableApproach.class END 15:37:15.667920 StableApproach [DEBUG] XPluginDisable_end WebFMC: Plugin disabled Threading violation calling XPLMRegisterFlightLoopCallback (C:\Users\Administrator\builds\eiafPmXpN\0\x-plane\design\SDK\COMMON\xplanesdk\Src\XPLM\XPLMProcessing.cpp:44) Violation by SPAD.neXt X-Plane Connector (SPAD.neXt.XPLane10.Connecter - C:\X-Plane 12\Resources\plugins\SPAD.neXt\64\win.xpl) Still showing some error

Yup and I exit the simulator and plugin didn't crash with B3.

Any idea when is Beta 3 dropping? The plugin error is an irritant

To be fair, I thought there was a dedicated forum for "advocacy" and "comparison". This can just be moved there. I don't remember which one, maybe "general flight sim".