Comments on: Two Features for Scenery Conversions

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:54:04 +0000

very interesting, but i want to ask something which has nothing to do with this subject Would it be possible to add some motion blur in xp 10? only a little just to give that extra speed effect at landing and take of or at a low altitutude flying , like in real life maybe it would be interesting to look next time you go on a plane if there’s some of it.
And will they be some snow textures ?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:05:18 +0000

In reply to Simon.

We didn’t make that shot up. 🙂 That’s global shadowing, but it can hit fps…the real question isn’t “can it look that good” but “how much do you get for X computer.”

Re: seasons, the straw man proposal we’ve always had is a dataref-driven texture selector. A texture selection (in any text-based art asset file) would specify multiple image files and a range of dataref values for when to use them. This would then allow terrain to be date responsive, temperature responsive, weather responsive, etc.

(For the global scenery it’s more complex because seasons occur in different places in different climates.)

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:02:29 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

My God I’d love to know how you’d implement seasons. Isn’t real weather enough? It would have to involve some sort of colours overlay, to say, give an autumn look? Snow? Or as a scenery developer, I’d have to make 4 .pngs!…Agree, seasons can come later, just get that Global lighting perfect.

I keep going back to those neighbourhood screenshots- I notice all the different shadow positions, even for shrubs, at different times of day. Is it really that good?!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:06:57 +0000

In reply to Jens. I have no idea what happened to him. :-( I hope he is alright. If anyone knows his where-abouts please let me know.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:06:14 +0000

In reply to Morgan. X-Plane 10.0 will not have any new seasonal enhancements; seasons are deferred in favor of other changes to the global scenery. We have to pick our battles. Seasonal support in the engine is in that big list of "after 10.0 ships" features, to be evaluated after we ship.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:18:57 +0000

The ATC thing sounds cool and all, but I’m not finding any info on an issue that I think most will find a bit more important as it is one of the most annoying things about X-Plane, and that is seasons. So, will there be seasons in XPX?

By: Jens

Jens — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:44:25 +0000

Now, if only Marginal would turn up again on the X-Plane Scenery front and adapt his wonderful set of scenery tools to the new possibilities

By: Daveduck

Daveduck — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:50 +0000

OBJ elevation control. Yay!

(Handy batch utility to add the ATTR to several OBJ files at once? Big yay in waiting…)

By: Ben, you make my life worth living

Ben, you make my life worth living — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:26:40 +0000

I often find myself dreaming of ATC controlled, alpine white little sheep. And Ben riding one of them. They perfectly follow earth’s contours.

Also, could you pretty pretty please post some more screens showing us XP10- features?