VFXSimmer

They really are two different animals.. I have experience in both and business software is kind of a cake wall compared to games development. Business software generally has much narrower and more defined problems to solve - it’s a lot easier to make predictable deployment schedules as a result. You may have paid for it, but they were pretty clear about what you were buying tbh. Maybe cut them just a little slack for trying something so complicated in this niche hobby of ours?

FWIW, BATC's most recent price model. You get unlimited basic voice for free. You arent required to pay $30/month to use the software https://fselite.net/content/beyondatc-revises-pricing-model/

Yes you do. I saw doubled buildings in the main passenger terminals until I did so.

If you can find your way to getting an xbox controller (even with a PC), drone mode becomes much easier to manage and virtually fly around. You can also set it to control your "inside" camera to move yourself around the cockpit/interior of the plane.

Got it. By all means you're free to pony up your money, or not, for anything you see fit. I guess it just surprises me that it seems like people expect a company to spend a huge amount of time and effort to create a product that greatly improves our very niche hobby, .. and deliver it as charity? Or even imply that the company just "wants your money" - the implication being that it is undeservedly doing so.

What a silly thread. If one were truly a Hard Core Simmer (tm), you would forego a lunch one day a month, if that's what it took, to pay the $15. You would do it in a heartbeat If it meant you could get the type of immersion this product seems it will provide (assuming it delivers as promised). If you can't make that kind of sacrifice then you're in the wrong hobby.

I can confirm that this works like a charm. Got it all done last night during the worst of it in about 1/2 hour

... subscription.. not subscription.... Webster's definition of the word... Does it really matter? If this thing is as good as it sounds, is there really anyone that frequents these forums that isn't going sign up and pay for it anyway?

Actually those issues are well known and documented. And most are not listed in the changelog for SU13, so not much of a bombshell to bring them up.

Flight simmers are a weird bunch, aren't we...

The update had a lot of fixes to various aircraft systems (I hit "V" before updating which showed the list of changes). I'm at work and cant do it now, but I'm sure someone here could point to the changelog. Sorry I cant elaborate further because I was in a rush and didnt stop to read it in detail.

I have a full AIG install along with FSTL and FS Traffic. I DO get Hawaiian 717s .. not sure which is providing that but reading the above responses leads me to believe its AIG.

I'm going to buy it! FYI, if any of you happen to have some spare time in Atlanta, GA .. specifically at KATL .. there is a Delta Airlines museum on the property, and in that museum is a retired, but fully functional full motion Level D simulator of a 737-200. It was an actual simulator used for pilot training back in the day, now its part of the museum. A as member of the public, you can rent it for an hour, get a little training, and see how well your MSFS sim time prepares you for something closer to reality. I did it.. and well.. the passengers wouldn't have been happy ... but I did manage to land us in one piece. After that experience I'd happily buy Blackbird's offering to relive the experience and practice a bit more with the older instrumentation to possibly do better if I find myself with another opportunity at the full motion sim. BTW, the museum itself is really great - you get to wander around up close and personal with a DC-8, 767, 747, and several other older planes.

The amount of polygons needed for a typical airport terminal interior pales in comparison to the amount needed for the exteriors, clutter on the apron, AI aircraft, etc, and is an even smaller fraction of the amount needed for photogrammetry. If your machine can handle a typical PG city, terminal interiors are not the problem.

In answer to the OP… me

Omg - been away from Avsim for a week and this drops! I am gobsmacked. The activities look amazing enough but I would plunk down more money just for the the rotorwash amimation of grass and trees - something very important to a helicopter pilot and something I’d asked for on Zendesk in the past. I will have to break the bad news to the family and friends that I’m going to be unavailable starting in 2024 😉

It’s taxing but still works on a 13900k/4090 even in VR for me (with motion smoothing). One thing to double check is to make sure you’ve disabled Asobo’s LAX because otherwise it still gets processed even though it’s covered up by iniBuild’s replacement.

I think it should be assumed that if you upload something to the gateway you relinquish the rights for it to be taken down. It’s more like a donation so it’s not really “yours” anymore. A little different than submitting a freeware mod on a website imho

Lol sorry, missed your post. Guess “great minds think alike”? 🤷‍♂️😀

I kept thinking that too, but when I do it, if you zoom into the airport you will see a green dot on BOTH the runway and the gate. If you then hit fly you will be at the gate, cold and dark. It’s another bug for Asobo to fix.

Thanks for the comparisons. Humbly I'd suggest that RDPresets offer a version without the rock to let the user decide which they like best. BTW, may have missed it above.. can you combine the RDPresets with Samscene or do they clash?

Can’t disagree, and I also love FSLTL with AIGround and AIFlow. At least the planes from FSTraffic are nice and work well with FSLTL’s injector. Maybe that should be their focus - filling out their hangar with the planes (maybe some GA and military?)

It’s not a sim issue really. Unless you are pushed until the g3000 fills your monitor, the number of pixels that the instrument fills in your monitors screen space is less than the resolution of the actual device. Wouldn’t matter what MSFS does, it’s the best the monitor can do. WT could even generate an image for the Garmin display to use that is a 1 to 1 with the real thing. The problem will be that it has to then be re-sampled with only the number of pixels that the window fills in screen space in your current view of the cockpit. It would be the same thing if you stepped onto the deck of the real thing and took a photo the zoomed into the Garmin display. The zoomed image of the photo will never look as sharp as what you would see with your eyes if you were viewing it in person. Not only that, but in the real world you would probably lean in a little closer to read things anyway .. something you can do easily in VR 😉

VR, I just lean my head forward and read it 🙂

Actually this is only partly true. OSM is just one source for Blackshark. It uses that where it exists and combines that with buildings extrapolated directly from the satellite imagery. It does a really good job of this but as you can expect there are occasional misfires (some large boulders are turned into buildings) - these are pretty rare though and their learning algorithms keep getting better. One thing that really helps in MSFS’s case is that the satellite textures of the roofs are mapped to the roofs of the AI buildings so you get authentic colors and details. As was mentioned in another thread, Blacksharks data is planned to become available (with a license if i recall?) in the future. I say this because the only reason I’m posting here is to suggest that this type of technology could be used to help improve XP12s already nice scenery much like W2XP did for XP11 in the past. I did a lot of scenery dev in XP11 (for my own benefit alas because I was using licensed material from purchased scenery) and I do really love the XP SDK. I totally agree with mSparks that it’s a great sim to tinker with. Add that to some really clever people who make tools we can use for free (looking at you Tony W) and it can make scenery making a “hobby within a hobby”. If we can put aside the sim vs sim nonsense and don’t always feel so “threatened” by each other - there is cool inspiration on both sides of the fence to take advantage of and make simming better all around.