Not sure when the 3DS plugin will support particles.

Vulkan won’t affect _any_ of this – your models just work with the Vulkan renderer.

The beta comes out when it’s ready, not before. It’s out now so test your add ons.

The complexities of this make it a non-starter for the foreseeable future.

Wow! I totally see your point. Again, that’s what makes you guys great at what you do; really love Laminar and their business philosophy.

Keep up the good work and hope to see some exciting new features in the plugin sometime in the near future.

Take care.

Hi Ted,

My comment about Mo Naser mentioning 11.30 would be out last week was just “tongue-in-cheek” humor. I totally appreciate the fact that you guys are doing all you can to release an RC that will not disappoint. As a programmer myself, I also totally understand that we sometimes run into unforeseen issues that set us back.

So all I can do is wish you all the best and thank you for the work so far. I will be honest and say I am disappointed about some issues in X-Plane, but in my opinion X-Plane is the best flight simulator out there anyway.

Godspeed!

So, checking multiple times, Mo Naser is not someone that most people in the company know (if at all). It is obvious he made a recording of a presentation of ours, which is greatly appreciated. I’m not sure if we asked him to. Regardless, he is not a source for release dates.

In the video Philipp (trusted and well known Laminar Research employee!) accidentally implied “next week”. This was a mistake. Laminar Research doesn’t generally discuss release dates publicly, in the blog, or in comments because it tends to get people especially excited and then a big let down when it doesn’t happen.

Laminar Research is always pushing at full throttle, we make X-Plane because we love it and love seeing other people love it! There is no incentive to slow down or delay. When will 11.30 be released? On the day that it is released. I know that may sound disappointing, but, hopefully it is less disappointing than being constantly being told “soon! Like, another X days we think.”

Best wishes,
Ted

When Ben first told me about the project, I took one look at the 2.49 UI and said “How about we just tell people to switch over”. He walked me through a thought experiment of how much time and money it would take to recreate a finished aircraft in 2.78. The only thing you would have to carry over would be basically, the meshes and the Blender Animations. Some very specific simple material and textures might carry over but it would largely be lost. All manipulators lost. XPlane Keyframes (more than half the animation work!) lost. A wide host of OBJ settings lost. Not to mention parts of a .blend file that wouldn’t normally export without the new automatic transformation of data to choose new good defaults. Those would require much debugging and clearing of error messages if simply opened up in 2.7x!

In the end it adds up to months of work and $1000s or even $10,000s of dollars in labor depending on the team size that needs to do it. Between “march forward, facing forward and only forward. Stragglers get in line or get out.” and “Save an entire workflow of the scenery community” Our philosophy is “We’re making a converter only to bring past work into the present. Blender 2.49 has been and will be unsupported and the use of old files is only supported in relation to their ability to cleanly go through the conversion process and produce an OBJ that matches 2.49 visuals and behavior.” It provides the best compromise between XPlane2Blender 2.7x development and preserving old but still potentially relevant work.

Not a problem at all (Thanks for hoping we’re good!). Thank you for the reply back.

It’s crazy to think that people still use Blender 2.49. You guys are really to even address that issue. I think you should put your foot down and just tell people that you have to move onto other aspects of the plugin and then people will make the necessary adjustments to learn the newer version of Blender if they TRULY want to create/finish older scenery projects.

I wish you guys the best always. Keep up the good work! Thanks again.

iirc he was the LR guy at flight sim con in the UK a few weeks ago now
https://youtu.be/ZzQD2dGG584?t=4900
said “Next week” on public 11.30 beta and then NOTHING from LR since

also pick better passwords for your patch notes