Coneman

I'm using PTA (P3D Tweak Assistant) in 4.4 and am getting colors very similar. I really like the ability to adjust the rayleigh effect colors. I think there's a version for 4.5.

Although it's getting complicated, I keep a set of traffic files to swap out so Flybe can still fly if I want to see them.

If you have just Seattle City, the DD airport buildings will be missing and you will see the black shadow base. Highly recommend DD's airports as well. The only thing I think could use some improvement is the dynamic lighting. I have both in v5 and frames are excellent. VRAM usage is certainly usable if you don't go crazy with settings. Lowering cloud rez is good in Enhanced Atmospherics.

That's the most problematic website ever. Gave up trying to re-login, just goes in circles. Done with it. The sim looks smashing but their site certainly doesn't inspire confidence, and am not going to load yet another browser just for that.

Some screens shots of AIG AI at Heathrow.

Some of those viewing angles are crazy. Going to be fun for screen shots.

Thanks Mark, will do.

I've noticed the Orbx NA CRM landclass in my area seems screwed up in v5 as well. Not quite compatible?

I'm getting it too, but have learned to keep my eye glued on the GPU memory counter and adjust things to keep it under my limit. Not saying that's a fix but it does seem to help. I did have the invisible wall crash on approach to Heathrow. Running HF1. Seems like they need to optimize things a bit, but I know this is a work in progress. I will say I'm blown away that my fps won't drop below my cap over Orbx TE London. Lot's of potential.

I have a 6Gb GTX 1060 and in P3D5 it's showing as 5Gb. Dxdiag shows 6. Any ideas why? If it were 6 in v5 I would have a bit more headroom.

Thanks so much for this fantastic program and now GA traffic! One question, can we still use AIM if we are continuing to use P3D4.x?

Thank you on behalf of an AI junkie! The AI Manager is a work of art. One question: will PBR create any fps hit? If so maybe I should backup the models I have.

I think you mean depth of field, much like a camera? Nice to see we have that option.

After looking at screen shots I took from the video a few thoughts: - Even the Hungarian grass strip looks awesome. If that's what we can expect worldwide that's incredible. - The rocks on SABA are jaw-dropping - Would be great to be able to add a random animal or objects at strips such as Chiquitos for us bush flyers. - Love the shadow shaders on all objects on airport tarmac. Makes it so much more believable. - The yellow taxiway striping could be darker and more orange/yellow - AI traffic certainly looks to follow past practice of being generic. Always used my own but may be fine for some. Lots of free NEO advertising 😉 - The animated rampies look awesome. Can't believe we can make our own rampie traffic! - There may be room for addon airports, but MS/Asobo is doing a smashing job. - Still a bit worried I can run this thing (I know, I know, adjustable and all that)

No, I got a refund a long time ago. Too many other issues. Payware should be at least as good as freeware, no?

I've been using freeware traffic for ages, but just out of curiosity I tried Traffic Global early access. While it showed promise, and some of the models did look good, there were issues. I tried repainting a 737 and the texture mapping was awful. I've seen some screenshots of Southwest 730's and the tail graphic doesn't even line up with the fuselage. Also the quality of repaints varied greatly. For instance the American liveries didn't even match from model to model. How hard can it be to get everyone a standard set of colors and logos? I'm using AIG's AI Manager and couldn't be happier, and am in the process of updating my hoard.

I'm not sure how many actually use default traffic. Can't imagine it's a lot. That A330 is the first thing I've seen that I haven't been too impressed with. But it's early. Alpha India Group has an amazing app that installs airlines for you, just choose what you want. And P3D4 native. I'm praying that will carry over to FS. But generic AI traffic in the new sim is one thing I'm willing to bet on.

It looks like the AI traffic will be generic, which makes sense since using real airlines would be an ungodly amount of work.

My goodness, the way this is looking people are going to file a missing person report when this thing breaks....

Not only are they doing hard winter, but it looks like it accumulates. That is amazing. Now I'm wondering if regions will reflect the melting and accumulation of snowfall in real life, based on real weather? I would guess it would if this is shader driven? Stunning, never-the-less. Alaska, here I come!!

Then everything green in that replace color or color range will change. And there's a lot of green. I've seen other scenery that had a horrible green color cast on the concrete, and it has to be due to the image used. It would be a matter of hand masking the roads and concrete in areas affected and applying a color balance filter. Certainly not impossible, but tedious. But it looks awful. Netherlands didn't seem to have that issue, as I said before.

"Hand corrected". I was suspicious when I saw that based on things I had seen in TE South. Sure enough, green roads and parking lots. Sorry, but that just doesn't cut it. TE NE looks so much better. Why??

Yes, a bush fliers dream....

For freeware AI traffic (ironically still the best option) there are liveries available for every imaginable airline - small commuters up to the big stuff. Now with AIG's automated installer it's a breeze to put them in the sim. The only problem with licensing I remember was with the original F1 Ultimate Traffic. You had to download American's liveries separately I believe. But if MS is going to have worldwide AI traffic, I would bet it will be generic, as in past sims. I would add a request here for Microsoft/Asobo to release paint kits of the aircraft when the sim is available. But please put panel lines, shading, data, etc., on separate layers. 😉

Hopefully gone forever. They were the first and last I bought a product from based on future promises.