Comments on: X-Plane 9: What Comes Next /2008/03/x-plane-9-what-comes-next/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Anonymous /2008/03/x-plane-9-what-comes-next/#comment-1122 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:08:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=375#comment-1122 Hm, so this means we can now see spinning engine-blades (in jets)? I have not seen that in x-plane, ever. Wow!

]]> By: Benjamin Supnik /2008/03/x-plane-9-what-comes-next/#comment-1123 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:59:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=375#comment-1123 Amalahama: I make no guarantees about any new rendering features. I strongly advise against going into the prefs file and changing trying to find “hidden” stuff.

Anonymous: you can make engine fan blades now using datarefs and animated objects.

]]> By: Anonymous /2008/03/x-plane-9-what-comes-next/#comment-1124 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:53:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=375#comment-1124 “Orthophoto Scenery: I don’t know if this is going to happen or not, but we get more and more requests for large-orthophoto-scenery support…”

So one more request from me 🙂

I know there are other Items on the list, but when I see discussions about this on the .org, this is really a wanted feature!

I have converted a FS9-Scenery of Switzerland. And it looks great in X-plane! The loading times are extreme (understandable) and the frame rate is not that bad but loading strategy of the tiles seems quite strange. X-plane loads tiles that are FAR away and behind from the current position and not the one right ahead of the plane…

I really enjoy VFR flying with orthophoto-scenery and beyond that it is a quite “easy” way to create a scenery for VFR navigation instead of messing around with streets, buildings etc. to get a comparable result.

Best regards
Jens

]]> By: Anonymous /2008/03/x-plane-9-what-comes-next/#comment-1125 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:20:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=375#comment-1125 Would be cool to have animated engineblades too 🙂 You know, it’s 2008 🙂 Thanks anyway

]]> By: Dan31 /2008/03/x-plane-9-what-comes-next/#comment-1126 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:46:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=375#comment-1126 Orthophoto Scenery: I don’t know if this is going to happen or not,…

YES ! YES !
I am still using X-Plane 7.63 to be able to do Orthophoto scenery, :-((((

]]> By: aMaLaHaMa /2008/03/x-plane-9-what-comes-next/#comment-1127 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:37:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=375#comment-1127 “More rendering engine/shader work: X-Plane 9 only begins some of the shader work we want to do; more engine enhancements will be coming in 910.”

This maybe means that we have full shadows?? In 9.00 there is a buggy hidden option for turning on shadows, I hope you can fix it soon. “Spherical/Cubic Environment Mapping” for metal aircraft reflection (like FS2004) would be great too. Anyway, good news here, I can’t waiting 9.10 betas!!

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