Comments on: X-Plane 10.02 Beta 2 Is Here

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:10:26 +0000

FPS has improved significantly. Can turn up settings much higher. This game is amazing! Take that FSX 😛

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:50:58 +0000

In reply to Richard. I am fixing this for the 3.01r1 installers...

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:07:39 +0000

Glad others brought up the street lights. I am under the impression that the lights we see in the demo are simple defaults. Designers will be able to construct their own light fixures, select color temp and diffusion levels, right? If so, how complex could these lights systems get? Would a lighted football/baseball stadium be possible?

simunut

By: Andrew Clements

Andrew Clements — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:57:58 +0000

I don’t know about everyone else, but I need a feature that forces me to go to bed before dawn. I seem to be a little addicted….

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:57 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Thanks for your reply. Maybe there will be fewer problems once people start updating from within X-Plane. If you do change the demo code, there is also a small bug with the updater. If you select quit you get the choice to quit or continue updating, but if you choose continue, it quits anyway!

By: Baber20

Baber20 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:43:26 +0000

I agree. There should be white and sodium lights both. Will look so much more realistic.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:30:33 +0000

In reply to Jesper Giørtz.

#1 I agree 100%, rain in the crj-200 by javier is awesome, that is how it should be all the time, i thought v10 was moving away from tunnel vision like lined rain.

#2- seasonal changes will come, austin said this in his presentation

3-of course, agree

4- agree.

By: Wim van Dijk

Wim van Dijk — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:11:41 +0000

For bug reports you can use the following link. Is saw it in the manual on page 119.

http://dev.x-plane.com/support/bugreport.html

By: peter

peter — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:49:37 +0000

Really enjoying X-plane 10 so far.. cant’ stop starting it over and over.. lol.. flying at night is something else, and even taking your plane for a drive down a highway is a fun experience 🙂

My criticism is that the powerlines are a bit silly at times. They have a tendency of grouping, favourably on or near highways.. i hope there’s something that can be done about that.

Also.. is there a way to make the couds move? They seem to just hang there like static patches of cotton wool, unaffected by wind, storm, even a hurricane won’t butch them. I’m assuming that that aspect of the weather system is yet to be implemented.. it’d make it such a lot better. Also the aurora borealis looks a bit rediculius.. lol.. hopefully that can be changed in something a bit better looking.

Some more little niggles:

– We need more colours for the traffic (cars): everything is either grey or umm.. dark-grey.
– Props need to be more transparent
– The heat-blur effect needs to be proportional (it’s just on or off right now), and extend as more thrust is applied. I really do like this effect, but it’d be so nice if it behaved realistically
– The silly little puffs of smoke generated by AI planes everytime they apply brakes need to go.
– Sound for AI-planes
– White and sodium streetlights. Right now it looks like it’s all sodium (orange) light. In reality, you’ll only find sodium lights near highways, while other lights are usually white)

Mind you, i like the sim the way it is, but this is just a little wish-list with things that would make it a little closer to perfection IMO. Keep up the good work!

Ok back to a bit more of nightflying.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:33:43 +0000

In reply to Richard.

We are _not_ going to combine the programs. Here is why:
In the old days they were the same program. And we had a huge number of tech support problems where users would go to update X-Plane and instead accidentally download a new copy, then contact tech support (after a huge download) because their settings/add-ons/etc. were gone. Or better yet, they’d file a bug report that the add-on no longer worked.

Since we separated the apps, this has completely gone away.

The problem of partial downloads is a new one, brought on by slow DL speeds from the intense demand for X-Plane 10 demos. So we do need to do something less stupid in the demo installer – some kind of revert and resume, but I we can’t go back to one program.