Comments on: X-Plane 10.30 Beta 3 Is Out

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:39:36 +0000

In reply to Daniel. You're probably writting to read only datarefs..

By: Patrick bureau

Patrick bureau — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:28:40 +0000

good morning

thanks for the updates. It has been months since I flew X-plane. I even got kicked out of the VA I was in for no activity. Yesterday I finally updated X-plane and gave it a try.

So far I think the performance is effectively better. Haven’t tried the GPS yet. As for clouds, they do look better but I suspect I may have the combination of AMD drivers that you mention in the blog ;).
I’ve also noticed (maybe I’m crazy) that the cloud thickness has been reduced to only 2000 feet ? I seem to think that before the update, the cumulus layers could be at least 4000-5000 thick ?

Am I dreaming or did I play too much FSX lately ?

Are there any plans for thicker clouds and towering cumulus ?

Also noticed there seems to be some kind of correlation now between houses and streets. I haven’t seem too many houses with no roads when flying.

By: Ilias Tselios

Ilias Tselios — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:10:43 +0000

In reply to myb.

I do not think that is possible to add something and get better performance!

But if you add many times the same objects, which might obey the OBJ8 specifications for instancing, then you might add lot’s of them without any significant penalty on performance.

I think though that Ben can better explain this one.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:55:43 +0000

In reply to Buck. Better to be right than rushed. It's a big, gnarly improvement that's going to go under a lot of scrutiny, and it's also going to be run on a wild assortment of hardware.

By: JEFFREY GIPSON

JEFFREY GIPSON — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:55:15 +0000

I can’t well express how much I appreciate the GNS430 implementation. I’ve been waiting for this since the early days of X-Plane 9.

By: myb

myb — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:40:56 +0000

In 10.30b3 I got the impression that adding objects in my scenery which contains a lot of small polygons only adds performance. Is this possible, or this is a “bug”?

Cheers

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:52:23 +0000

In reply to Buck.

I don’t know what was said on Avsim or by Austin, but:

It is very likely that my view-and-fog related code, which _is not even completely coded_ right now, will be delayed until 10.35 or something.

It doesn’t make sense to delay 10.30 (and hold off everyone getting the GPS) for code that isn’t done yet. Making the GPS ship later won’t make my code get done any faster.

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:13:03 +0000

I’m noticing people commenting on Avsim that they someone got an email back from Austin indicating that the “view things in the distance” feature is no longer coming to the 10.3 release?

True? 🙁

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:18:08 +0000

In reply to John. After I buy a new power supply. :-(

By: Philipp Münzel

Philipp Münzel — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:07:21 +0000

In reply to Michael.

Well, the button has two functions:
Press it quick should trigger the “clear/delete” function.
Press it long should trigger the “default nav” function.
The mechanism to detect whether it was clicked quickly or clicked and held down is broken in beta 3, sorry.