Comments on: Updated Plugin SDK, Docs and Sample Code for Vulkan/Metal

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:20:09 +0000

In reply to quantumac. The particle system will not; but we will be adding sound to XPLM instances at some point.

By: Jan Vogel

Jan Vogel — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:56:01 +0000

In reply to Christoph Feldhaus. No, they stopped working on that. Turned out that only people that like to ask off-topic questions in the Laminar dev blog comments are affected by that!

By: quantumac

quantumac — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:35:03 +0000

Unrelated to Vulkan specifically, but will particle systems ever have a sound emitter added? I ask because while “guns” have a sound associated with them (i.e. “gun.wav”), none of the other weapons have “wav” sound counterparts (or at least, no documented “wav” sound counterparts). In my recently released TP-5J, which is a COVID-19 parody of the BD-5J, I added a couple of 20 mm cannons and I used particle systems to emit flame from the cannons. Couldn’t figure an easy way to add a sound for them without depending on code from my plugin. I could add sound via the plugin, of course, but since I don’t do Windows, only Linux and Mac would be supported. I’d like to have a “code-less” solution for adding cannon sounds.

By: Christoph Feldhaus

Christoph Feldhaus — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:50:34 +0000

Hi Ben, hope you’re doing good in these difficult times. I’d like to ask if there’s a new beta-build on its way as mentioned (concerning the black screen e.g.)?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:07:24 +0000

In reply to Dan Gill. I believe that all of the pilot client developers are aware that they need to migrate from XPLMDrawObject to XPLMInstancing to be Vulkan compatible.

By: Dan Gill

Dan Gill — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:56:38 +0000

Ben,

I’m not a developer but fly X-Plane on Vatsim. Have you heard anything about developer using CSL’s with Vulkan?

Dan