We have new documents available for our new 3D sidewalks in X-Plane 12.4.0. Check them out!
These include
- Available sidewalk types/assets
- Best practices for sidewalks
- How to place assets on top of sidewalks
- New planter objects
- Recommended optimisation/performance information regarding the planter objects.
Special thanks to Petr and Tom Kyler for making this available!
Are you building sidewalks? Why not use those resources to better display rain in the sim? or if you can at least open the art section so we can turn it off because it’s a huge immersion breaker
A 3D artist does not/cannot work on the graphics engine. All the graphics engineers are busy on next-gen scenery and performance… as per our roadmap.
If it’s not on the roadmap, we have no immediate plans to change this soon. 😉
https://www.x-plane.com/2025/12/x-plane-roadmap-update-december-2025/?_thumbnail_id=451804
This is pretty spiffy stuff! Does it react to LOD distances?
Some of the mentioned elements will be LOD’d. Not all.