Comments on: X-Plane 10.10 Beta 1 Is Here

By: Iivari

Iivari — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:21:05 +0000

Hi!

Sorry, I’m not very good in explaining things in english but I’m talking about the view “Free-camera” and how it’s controlled using mouse. In new version free camera view when you hold mouse button and move the mouse view moves exactly like you move the mouse but in V9 free camera view when the mouse was moved the view continuously turned that direction.

With the old controls you could get the camera moving very smoothly and make it turn as much as needed but using the new controls you can only turn the view something like 30 degrees at the time.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:27:04 +0000

In reply to Murmur. I suppose one would prefer to save space on (expensive) limited capacity SSD by just installing the sim on it, and keeping 10s of GB of scenery on an external disk.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:33:00 +0000

In reply to XJUANNOX.

Someday, yes, but it’s not on the short list. When we designed the v10 terrain upgrades, we made sure the terrain could respond to height changes on the GPU so that tessellation + some procedural terrain enhancement (tasteful enhancement, of course 🙂 could cause texture changes.

But I do not think tessellation offers any performance improvement in the “busy scene” case; on systems performing at their peak vertex count is not a factor.

By: XJUANNOX

XJUANNOX — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:29:00 +0000

Hi, At this time you are thinking of implementing a Tessellation solution? , for example on airports, AI airplanes, static airplanes, facades, gates, etc?

This would help the renderer process, for example when we are on final approach at an airport with lots of complex objects

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:22:11 +0000

In reply to Iivari. I don't know exactly what you're describing here with free cam but...please file a bug.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:20:33 +0000

In reply to Dom. Ground textures were edited by Albert, and the car headlights did receive animation. Any coastline improve is happy juice I think.

By: Sapam

Sapam — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:43:11 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Got the Point. Thanks a lot. All seems good for me. :)

By: Iivari

Iivari — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:26:58 +0000

Haven’t yet tried this but I looked the release notes and you did some changes to view angels. How about the free cam? Would it be possible to get the V9 freecam mouse control back? You just can’t make proper movies using new freecam because you can’t move it much using mouse and you can’t get the view move naturally.

By: Simunut

Simunut — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:13:00 +0000

In reply to Aussi. I was thinking the same thing. Something along the lines of a plugin. You could send bug reports while flying and capture internals of the sim. What about an acars/fdams like system, something that can talk to the mothership.

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:00:28 +0000

Hi Ben,

Great update, it’s coming along well. A few things I’ve noticed (positives mate, don’t sweat), the cars don’t seem to have so much of an impact on frame-rates, and ground textures and coastline (especially north of Seattle) seem to have improved. Did you make adjustments or is me just pouring happy juice into my coffee?

PS. HDR on my 2011 imac has improved greatly. Well done!