Comments on: Free Form Friday: Lights, Water, Frost

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 12:13:21 +0000

In reply to Ulrich. No download links in the comments please.

By: Ulrich

Ulrich — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:40:05 +0000

Accidentally I had shot a few photos during a night flight as a passenger: One is at high altitude over a large city (probably Spain or France), and the other is during approach to EDDM. They are not perfect, but maybe an inspiration.
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By: Hakan

Hakan — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:34:45 +0000

Xplane 12 hypes me a lot. Got RTX3050 laptop with 11th gen i5 processor but its sad that I can’t max my xplane11 settings for it to not drop below 20FPS (since I have heavu scenery addon for clouds) and slow down the sim. I wonder about FPS optimization and much much better default scenery compared to xplane11. And my hopes are so high for you guys. Boost Xplane and watch people enjoying the results of your hard works! Wish you the best.

By: Helisimpilot

Helisimpilot — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:50:55 +0000

As a IRL helipilot and with ambitions to use my flightsimulator as a “working tool” to keep my skills at a high level I´ve been using X-plane with both a full scale control-/panel-setup and VR-googles since quite some time now. Mostly because of the flight model for helicopters that, in cope with my hardware, really feels like handling my IRL heli but also the fact that I have the ability to recognize where I am, no matter where, airports, landmarks etc. To be able to go through “upcoming flights in advance” to feel a little more prepared when it´s actually happends and so on is a greate help. All thanks to all you dedicated people at Laminar and 3:rd partie addon creators that want X-plane to be something beyond a game, to be something that´s actually useful for IRL pilots.
Only isiues so far has been weather changes, the fact that we only fly during summer and that Xplane now seem a little “cartoon” compered to other sims (that really fails on there flight models and/or the fact that they use a fictionworld to fly in). With these updates you showed us here all this is history!! Can´t thank you enough for your will to really keep Xplane at the edge, the fact that you actually envolve ordinary users for development, ideas and feedback. If an update or something similar doesn´t turns out the way it´s supposed to you are defenitly not the author that just notice this and lean back, you start at ones to solve the isiue and sometimes even draw updates back that doesn´t work, all with great feedback why things act like they do. So….
Keep up the excelent work you all do!!! Will be greate to see all this in Xplane 12.
/Regards

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 04:23:08 +0000

In reply to VRef.

Apron lights and airfield lights are already on separate schedules – we’ve had that for a long time. Airport buildings and parking lots go by time of day but the airfield lights up when it’s bad weather too.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 04:21:45 +0000

In reply to John Stockton.

Not at all. We’re referring to AMD GPU code (E.g. from GPUOpen) – I like that it’s fully open source and easy to integrate and just useful. But it runs on AMD and NV hardware – seems to work well on both.

By: VRef

VRef — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:48:18 +0000

In reply to Volker Kusserow. Both words describe the same condition... I believe

By: VRef

VRef — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 05:41:44 +0000

Very much appreciate all the hard work the team is putting into the new version of the sim, it really looks absolutely stunning. I’m just curious as to weather both taxi and runway lights(TDZL , RCLS) will be lit at all times during the day , regardless of the ambulant lighting conditions, and have controls separate to those of the main apron /ramp lights?

By: VRef

VRef — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:54:32 +0000

In reply to Volker Kusserow. Both terms can be used

By: Dave Pastula

Dave Pastula — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:46:57 +0000

All I can say is.. WoW!!! Thank you sharing, XP12, very impressive!!! And thanks to the entire XP12 Team… greatly appreciated what you are doing and achieving!!! Two comments…the lighting is of high interest, will this be applied to all lighting so there is a balance across the entire field of view?.. or only the airfield lighting? I see inconsistency among flightsim products making some lighting stand out more than others, difficulty seeing the lighting when it should be clearly distinguishable, and how the lighting changes with distance. If I understand correctly, Photometric Lighting will handle a good portion of this? The water reflections are stunning! The impact on performance and hardware requirements come to mind due to the resources required to generate the reflected image.