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Some "certain peopleTM" even go into forums of a product they don't even own to stir up trouble (not only an avsim symptom). How childish is that? Didn't YOU say?

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/76419-xmidictrl-a-midi-controller-plugin-for-x-plane/

??? In EVERY thread? Some people seem triggered when you point out BS 😉.

No. Never ... Was there EVER ANYONE writing such things? ... Oohh ... yes ... now I remember, there were "certain people"TM doing so. They possibly even made an "Austin puppet" and tried some weird voodoo stuff with it 🤣. But how can that be? The harder they tried, the more X-Plane refused to die and even grew bigger. Maybe they should try the other way round and wish X-Plane all the best 😁.

Congratulations for the invention/introduction of a new kind 👍 .

Oohhh ... I don't believe them (LR). That CAN'T be true !!! Only trust the statistics that you have manipulated yourself ... 🤣

As I understand it, snow is placed on ground, independent if it is default textures or orthos. That's the advantage of the "X-Plane way" producing snow, namely not by replacing default or ortho textures by snow textures, but simply placing snow (whatever technique) on top of "everything" - e.g. buildings, cars, ... (but not on their roofs, windscreens, ... depending on the angle of the surface). With this plugin, snow is created based on snow coverage data by NOAA, not from METAR. With or without the plugin, snow is generated and builds up slowly if the weather is set to precipitation and below 0°C (either manually or real weather). Above 0°C snow and ice will melt.

It can be done, and already was done - however not in MSFS 2020 😉.

The reason MIGHT 😉 be that the orthos (which of course aren't default XP) were made in summer 🤷‍♂️.

As I understand it, it works everywhere where you have orthophotos - independent if it is in cities or outside. Again 😉 as I understand it - no. Only if the orthos were completely uniform in a large area and/or in the distance (what the they aren't) it might happen.

One reason MIGHT 😄 be that there currently isn't snow in Innsbruck (apart from the top of the hills): https://www.innsbruck.info/webcam/?frontentry=https%3A%2F%2Finnsbruck.panomax.com. Another reason might be that the NOAA data for that region is "sparse".

Usually I don't fly with real weather, but today I did. It was raining and after some time I noticed something like soiling. It's not at the windows, but at the wings. Has anyone else noticed that already?

When facts don't help anymore ... don't you know the principle of repeating stuff often enough and people will believe it eventually (some perpetual doubters aside) 😜? Apart from that and to summarize the (meanwhile) last 4.5 pages ... not aimed specifically at you but in general. I'm really LMAO ... these last 4.5 pages were generated only because I made an iconic ... ironic post about how Asobo is planning to generate pebbles with AI. As if pebbles are important enough for a flightsim to generate them by AI. For simulation of e.g. rheological behaviour in a river - ok. But hey ... some guys are taking this all too serious. Do they really believe there aren't more important things for a flight simulator than ... PEBBLES? C'mon ... I give you an example which is indeed even less important than generating pebbles by AI in a flightsim: creating the postage stamps in the offices of the (default) airports by AI 😆.

Aaahhhh !!! ... That's the fly in the ointment !! It's so unfair ... "XP is shown with addons to look as good as MSFS by default". Because THAT'S what's important in a flight simulator - that it looks good. Finally I understood ... So, should XP users also be forced to show why it flies so much better? BTW, do you know Bill Gates's following quote? See here: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/bill_gates_382270 The water transparency will be fixed in XP 12.1.0 (i.e. in few weeks). When will the off by a wide margin water transparency in MSFS (see my video further above) be fixed? Apart from the planes flying through water ... However, your response is a perfect example for: "your" molehill is thousand times bigger than "my" mountain 😆. A well known tactics (also from cunning politicians) to distract from the real big problems.

So, with this extreme exceptional situation you want to prove what? I understand what you want to say, but instead do a video flying and landing with a wing hanging into the water and post again.

Of course that's default. Why do one need to use AI for pebbles (=waste of resources, which could be used for far more important things for a flight sim) instead of simply using good textures? What does that picture prove? If the wing touches the water (not within the first centimeters of course), the plane gets tossed around, like it should (not completely perfect, i.e. 100.00%) but with a very good approximation. At least my version of the C172. 🙈🙉🙊 The video is already 4 months old, but still valid.

Don't worry, he will NEVER say that. Why? Because XP 12 HAS already pebbles. And in addition to that, correct water physics, unlike ... but don't let's even start that. However LR simply doesn't make such a marketing gibberish about it, they implement it. So, is it safe to say XP 12 is ahead of the competition? 😛 Unless MSFS 2024 gets 3D pebbles. Then I wouldn't even fly any more, but only go for a walk along rivers to admire these 3D pebbles 😁.

I would like to know how exactly they detected the gazillions of pebbles coming in MSFS 2024 😄 (but maybe that should be discussed in a separate thread, as this one is about MSFS 2020 ...).

YMCA ... sorry ... mistyped. YMTP (=you missed the point).

So, did you understand where the problem lies, or are you only denying it - like clockwork? 😁

Riiiight 😁 - so, I interpret your statement as following: "... the results showed that a realistic aerodynamic model was the #1 answer with 60% rating it as very important, and 35% rating it as important. .... And that's why approx 70% use MSFS as their primary simulator." Riiiight - (don't pin me down on the exact figures) so, you may know that if people get asked what is very (or the most) important for them when buying food, the responses are usually - say 42% of them are saying : "high quality and produced locally to save the environment, even if it is more expensive". However ,the real figures are: only 10% are buying high quality and produced locally, the rest is buying the lesser quality.

Interestingly enough there is a post in this very subforum (see below), probably because there was a need for it - already around 6 months before release of MSFS 2020 ... In none of the other subforums at avsim there is such a post - probably because there was no need for it ... isn't it? 🤪

The wind graph shows wrong values.

I just have seen a very interesting post "over there" in the X-Plane forum. It is about the age of the simmers, namely that earlier the average age of the community was around 50 years or even older. Currently, we have ... see below. So, I rather would call these young people "kiddies" or at best "gamers". Undoubtedly, older simmers have and invest more money into their hobby and I would also claim that they are taking their hobby more seriously (i.e. flight/ground physics, failure simulation, ... etc. over scenery). But that's only my interpretation 😉.

No, he didn't! Or the other way round? Namely he did. Either way ... they (LR) don't say, they have the PERFECT simulator, but "the most realistic". By that they mean "the most realistic currently available, but further improvements are possible and definitively will come (like during the last around 30 years)".