Comments on: X-Plane 10.50 Beta 6 – Moar Bug Fixes

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:02:39 +0000

In reply to Andy Vichot. You can do what our artists do: repaint each cloud texture with a series of letters or numbers and colors identifying the texture's shape.

By: Andy Vichot

Andy Vichot — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:19:54 +0000

Hello Ben, the latest beta is great. Auto-gen is amazing. I had a question about clouds. I don’t know if this the right place to ask but here it goes. For those of us who like tweaking the clouds textures, is there any way to get an idea how x-plane renders the different cloud texture sets? 4 rows, 4 columns in each set of cloud puffs. If we knew more about this then the x-plane community might be able to contribute textures like they contribute lego airports using wed. Thanks in advance for your reply.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:32:29 +0000

In reply to Anthony.

I’m not sure, but I do know this.

_If_ the problem is fixed by turning off contoured runways, then it _will_ fix it; if turning off contoured runways leaves it borked, then it’ll be borked with the per-airport flatten too.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:46:56 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. One question related to airport flattening. I found a runway crossing a Dsf boundary and noticed an induced bump along the line of the boundary. Will the airport flatten option in wed 1.5 flatten airports that span across 2 or more dsfs?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 02:32:28 +0000

In reply to Marc Westhofen. yes.

By: Marc Westhofen

Marc Westhofen — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:55:00 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

Thanks for your reply.

Will the “always flatten” mark be stored withing the apt.dat?

Regards,
Marc

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:09:45 +0000

In reply to Steve.Wilson. Who said that?!?!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:09:31 +0000

In reply to Steve.Wilson. Ha ha ... a missed opportunity for sure. :-)

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:09:12 +0000

In reply to Marc Westhofen.

Yes – in WED 1.5 you can tag a scenery pack as “always flatten” by airport. You get exactly what you’d get if the user had disabled “runway follows contours”.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:08:20 +0000

In reply to Markku Uttula.

If it helps your internet cred, you can point out that while we are adding async ATC cab load to b6 and not b1, it is (1) the wrong way to do it and (2) because the code was already done and ready and tested, not because I just woke up and went … beta 6, let’s go take the really complicated ATC code and thread it!

(Mind you, sometimes we -do- make those kinds of decisions…I’m trying to stop doing that though.)