Comments on: More Facade and Shadow Pics

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:12:56 +0000

In reply to Jack Skieczius. If you run with global shadowing, the airplane self shadows, like all 3-d "stuff". If you run without global shadows, you get the 2-d "ground shadow" from v9.

By: Jack Skieczius

Jack Skieczius — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:31:21 +0000

Was wondering, since you are showing us these really need shadows, will we have self shadows on aircraft now and if so can you give us an image of it?

And then of course with self shadows, goes my yearn to see reflections on the aircraft. hehe.

Thanks

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:18:52 +0000

Hi Ben, just wondering about 2 things:
1- Are the clouds affected in all this Global Illumination Environment?
2- Will be the visibility still like “tunnel vision”? (I use 120 degrees FOV, and always at 0 degrees azymuth (right at front) is the actual visibility distance)

Well, thanks and hopefully we could get that “Light Pollution glow” above cities.
Regards

Jerry C.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:59:34 +0000

I suppose we will get smooth shadows when the weather is overcast ?

By: Marc Kulhavy

Marc Kulhavy — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:39:28 +0000

First of all I have to say you people at LR are doing a great job. The pictures I have seen so far promise X-Plane 10 to become the new standard in flying simulations.
But there is one thing I haven’t seen until now. We have seen scenery, runways, weather, new aircraft models, but no screenshot shows it all together.
Is there any chance to get a glimpse on how the sim will look like from the standard view of most users, sitting in the cockpit in front of an instrument panel, looking outside through the clouds down to earth?
Maybe it’s a bit to early to ask for pictures of that kind, but I think many users are looking forward to get an eye on the “complete thing”.
All the best and keep on rollin’
Marc

By: Nils

Nils — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:14:43 +0000

Looks fantastic as always. Thanks for teasing us!

Silly idea probably but would it not make sense to scale the area of ground covered by a shadow map with altitude? The lower you are, the less you care about far away shadows and the higher you are the less you care about resolution, is what I’m thinking… 🙂

By: adrian

adrian — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:05:49 +0000

i can see the depth the shadows add. fantastic! are those people looking out of the windows? its a cute idea, but they look out of scale, and stretched in some screen shots… just a thought. ( :

ive been flying m$ f$ since I was in the 3rd grade… looking forward to the switch ( :

By: Chris Hallam

Chris Hallam — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:35:25 +0000

anti aliasing correct?

By: Chris Hallam

Chris Hallam — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:30:05 +0000

in the final version , will the lines of the terminals, jet way etc.. be ridged like in the above shots? or will this be fixed so the sim is smooth

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:31:51 +0000

This is going to be stunning! I love the wireframe shot. Cant wait to get my hands on the XP10. May switching to XP from MSFS then.. Such High renderable Shadow with a nice performance? Gime GIVEME !! Thanks for the news.. Keep it up *thumps up*