Well, when it’s known that a great gaming machine makes a great flight sim machine, Tyler, I guess that makes a lot of sense! But does this make you a _spy_?? Do you get a secret agent super decoder ring to go along with that? 😉

In terms of UI, I wonder if it’s possible to map to the panel.png in the user’s current aircraft from an aircraft-positioned plugin. With 4K of space to play with now, this might be a good source for easy access to custom graphics.

the xenviro team are not hitting a brick-wall – whereby the RT is coming to rescue — see this latest beta video posted a couple of days and judge for your self, they have openly talked about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtGsltlAdVI

i want my Ray traced Global illumination!

RT seems to have been all the hype at GDC this year hoping some of that rubs off on you guys now

There are plenty of story mode add-ons for X-Plane, so that’s fine, please “waste” your time on other stuff 🙂

Which, honestly, I don’t know what it would be at this point… With SFD working on global autogen, and Active Sky for XP taking care of weather… I have no idea what I would care for next… sadly, I would say that seasons is also becoming now a priority for me, after belittling it for so long… maybe volumetric, dynamic clouds would come next. Have you guys seen what xEnviro is working on?

Cheers.

Don’t forget that we are also cheating you guys out of a story mode. I guess these days that would make X-Plane an open world sandbox.

A Simulator – Is game with fine-tuned physics – The game at its best!

Despite being a Serious Flight Simulator™, we wind up “stealing” soooo many ideas from the games world—rendering techniques, user interface design, networking systems, etc. Definitely a lot of value for us in hearing from people on the cutting edge of gaming tech. 😀

Have a good time, Tyler. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to ‘Frisco. It’s awesome this time of year.