Comments on: Conditionals, Shadows, Big Textures, Etc.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:34:09 +0000

In reply to Oscar.

Hi Oscar,
Yep, gray-scale only no-alpha PNG should load as specularity. But find another program like GraphicsConverter to get control of the alpha channel – photoshop doesn’t treat it well.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:28:55 +0000

Hi Ben,

Love the new features; just made my first succesful conditional, great stuff 🙂

Now working on normal maps… first results are promising, but I’m having some trouble with specularity; I seem to remember that it should be possible to combine specularity within normal maps, I want to add specularity for the windows only.
I did some attempts with the alpha channel, but that channel is lost whenever I save as PNG…

And then there is the option to make a specularity-only gray-scale PNG, that could be useful as well; but what should I call that file, does it take the place of a normal map, or is it in addition to it?

Bear with me, I’ll learn eventually 😉

regards,
Oscar

By: Adarsh

Adarsh — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:11:14 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

Thanks A lot Ben, since 10.05r1 came out, my installer could update to that, but before, it could not install the 10.04….
Anyway, now that i have the latest version, still playing around with the demo, and eagerly awaiting the ring on my doorbell with a courier person who will give me X-Plane 10, WAITING!!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:46:18 +0000

Sorry for the posts again, I noticed a typo. Disk should be discs.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:43:11 +0000

In reply to Alex.

Hi Alex,
I appreciate that you are frustrated (I do not blame you!) but I also think that everything that can be said has already been said.
– This is one of our top priorities.
– We can’t reveal what we discuss with the GPU vendors – we’re under NDA.
– Therefore _if_ there is ever an ETA on a fix, I won’t be in a position to announce it.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:42:35 +0000

Also, in regards to my post above, would running XPlane on Linux fix the problem, and will my current disk even work on Linux?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:40:38 +0000

Is the bug with poor performance on high-end ATI video cards going to be addressed soon? I have a 6970 and I didn’t know about this bug when I paid the $80, so I am hoping the bug gets fixed sometime soon (pretty please :)).

I have tried the clouds and cars, but this doesn’t fix the problem, just about a 15fps increase.

Thank you

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:21:16 +0000

In reply to Adarsh.

Please contact tech support:
http://www.x-plane.com/support/landing/
I’m sorry, but we cannot provide tech support on the blog.

By: Murmur

Murmur — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:19:14 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. The general impression seems to be that the X-Plane team, despite the recent additions, is significantly lacking manpower in the "art assets makers" area. Are there any plans to improve this?

By: Adarsh

Adarsh — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:23:54 +0000

Ben, i have a problem in getting the 10.04 release.
I have the demo of v10 (ordered the global edition last week, and hope it comes next week since i live in India), the demo is 10.04r3, when i go to the NEW Installer/updater and try to update, it says that your X-plane version is up to date??
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! (Can’t LIVE WITHOUT X-PLANE IN MY HOLIDAYS!!!)
Thanks
–Adarsh