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X-Craft announces the next project that show a highly detailed luxury aircraft not seen since the A310 for those who are really into high quality texture. https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/320076-the-next-x-crafts-product-embraer-lineage-1000/

Its interesting that Thandra just did a post about this, saying SASL isnt the biggest FPS hit, but textures, They have had discussions with Laminar as Laminar love DDS not PNG. Thandra complained they could not fiind a decent DDS converter, seems they found one, so a lot of there planes will be converted to DDS soon enough except for some of the stuff you can change in cockpit, that may remain DDS. It also seems that Laminar have being convinced to try make PNG texture usage a little more efficient. Oh that life was so simple.

Lets look at cost, One plane 3 years of development, team of 3. Some only have one or 2 others more. Wage. $25 Hr 1 day $200 X 3 = $600 Pday 1 week 600 x 5 = $3000 not counting overtime etc 1 Year $3000 X52 = $156,000 Py 3 Years = $468,000 for 1 plane 3 years developing an airbus 330 is around $264 Mill new $18 Mil used, you just paid how much for a reverse engineered multimillion dollar plane and complain. They all have to eat, some do this as a hobby and have other jobs to help feed there families and keep roofs over there heads. This world has changed and not for the best. PS. How many planes do you think they would have to…

Toliss A330-900 NEO is out, you can pick this up at the link below https://store.x-plane.org/Airbus-A330-900-neo by ToLiss_p_1952.html

Yesterday I made an install of Xp12 from a backup I had from a few betas / rc ago, then pushed the update for 05b1 and as usual, made a shortcut in the "desktop" for Xp12... Now whenever I click that shortcut icon to open Xp12, it also opens the Xp12 install folder ( "F:\X-Plane 12" in this case ) ? The simulator opens normally at the same time, but I never had this auto folder opening before. Any of you with the same behaviour on Xp12 startup?

Hello. I have this issue only in Toliss A319, in all other planes VR hand controllers work as intended - rotate gesture for all the knobs. Instead of that, virtual slider is showing up, and you adjust the knobs only via horizontal hand movement. It's very imprecise, and it takes ages to select certain speed or heading, very frustrating. Screen of the issue is attached. I'm running XP11 via SteamVR, Quest 2.

I don't know if anyone has seen this but I just become aware of this that has been around for a while. This utility runs with all Toliss and FF320 airbus called Speedy Copilot. It is similar to what you find by default in the FF 777v2 or many the CL650, except this is addon for the aircraft. https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/54069-speedy-copilot-for-toliss/

Hello! My name is Reginaldo and I recently bought the TBM 850 from Carenado. I just can’t update the database and I have no idea how to do it. Would you help me please? I use Xplane 11 and I subscribe Navigraph. Best regards

Toliss announce their first upgrade of the A330-900 NEO to V1.01. From the list below you will visual improvement along with other feature updates. https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/319568-official-toliss-a330-900-announcements/#comment-2792783 This is V1.0.1 of the ToLiss A330-900 Build 1621 Changes from V1.0 (Build 1619) Artwork tuning: - Rebalanced engine volumes inside and outside (increase inside volume, decrease outside volume.) - Retuned the "light enhancement" to make sure it does not interfere with night lighting. - Removed artefacts from panel text bitmaps and forced texts to be high resolution always. - Cockpit textu…

... because it's time to, XP week starting 😜 and it's the only decent civillian --> FLIGHT <-- simulator ... XP12 is getting so nice graphics wise, and they ( LR ) talk about the new scenery in a rather convincing way, just as about code optimization, so I have good reasons to move... before the next in the cycle which can be either AEFS4 or MSFS or P3Dv6.... Last night took the Toliss 32N, then the VSL DC-3 and ended up with a couple flights in the Bell 212 and the VSL R-66... Wow, feels so so good, as usual... It's my preferred --> FLIGHT <-- simulator 😍 And also because we needed a thread to contrast with that other 🤣

Hi Everybody, I just got chastised on an x-plane discord channel for posting a real photo of a flight deck, here is the quote "This cockpit isn't X-Plane, I'm 100% sure it is real life. Why did you send it to this channel?" Another member had to point out that you could see the monitor bezels and that it was in fact a simulator. XP12 is looking Great at night, yep I may be a bit bias. Guess my night lighting edits are done! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U36FdOk17KHIEhITMMZsxxEL8jYJsPay/view?usp=sharing

I want to add a pair of G5s to XP12 using Air Manager on a touch screen with knobster if possible. Setting up an instrument training sim for someone who flies real G5s, so high identity to the real functionality is most desirable. Can anyone advise on the pros and cons to using the RealSimGear vs the Sim Innovations versions of G5? Any differences in coupling to a GFC500 autopilot?

WOWOWOW !!! 😍😍😍

Well, my, that was considerably more challenging than I expected. Anyone for a race?

Fresh XP12 install. Beefy PC w/ 4080 & 12900. Using Reverb G2 which works great in other sim. However, in XP I’m getting very choppy performance, low frames & seems to want SteamVR to even run correctly (selecting “use OpenXR” at the menu results in hang / cannot exit , etc). Sim runs good in 2D. Help /tips appreciated.

The new Toliss Airbus 330neo test flight by Flightdesk2sim showcase this aircraft with some interesting features not found in the other Toliss aircrafts. Still a WIP but look very promising. Enjoy.

https://x.com/XPlaneOfficial/status/1844431270681420108 We have released 12.1.2 as a final version. Thank you all for the reports and feedback! 12.1.2 brings various new art and scenery improvements, including custom airport enhancements, updated water textures, marine traffic, dual jetways, new library objects and more! Many of you have sent in some fantastic screenshots and messages, the team is extremely happy you enjoyed this minor update! Coming next... ATC Update!

Release Date: October 8, 2024 Fixes General Fixed a bug which would cause a huge performance impact when flying over the same area twice due to drawing buildings twice. https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-1-2-release-notes/

New Features General Setting to disable boats in the scenery (Settings -> Graphics -> Draw boats) Fixes and Enhancements General Fixed various replay crashes Removed forced aspect ratio for avionics pop out screens (XPD-16003) Scenery Improved performance of boats Changing the World Objects Density will now immediately have an effect on the number of boats displayed Increased visibility of smaller boats and sailing ships https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-1-2-release-notes/

Hi Everybody, Just finished setting up my monitors, everything was just great, when the right visual all of a sudden won't connect to the server. As a master it works just fine, if I go to extended it just sits at the grey screen waiting for the server computer, yet it shows connected. I had to reinstall X-Plane 12. Just wondering if there is another file(s) that can be selected/erased that controls this area of XP12. I tried to reset network all around, but no good, the right computer just sits at waiting for connection. New install has fixed the issue.

I'm opening another thread to discuss exposure, instead of hijacking other threads. I'm not sure the issue is with the shadows per se. It might be due to how dynamic range and tone mapping are implemented. In other words, the shadows and the lit areas of the cockpit might both have the correct internal values in the photometric engine, but the modeled dynamic range might be too limited (attempting to simulate the human eye), causing shadowed areas to appear too dark when viewed on a monitor. Anyway, this is another screenshot using the same dataref setting as my previous one. The exposure looks acceptable to me, for both the cockpit and the external world. It…

It was always interesting/enlightening to see how we use X-Plane. But all I see now is the v11 dashboard (which also seems to have some ssl error and is showing "insecure"...) Is there one for v12? The v11 one is still the one linked on the Blog sidebar: http://dashboard.x-plane.com/

I just saw that video from Philipp. The new weather-radar-capabilities are simply mindblowing. I had not expected that level of accuracy. Even turbulences and windshear-warnings will be included! Simply amazing in my opinion. I have been waiting for that since years in any sim. I cannot wait to see it in action in the next XP-version coming hopefully soon.

Weather appears to be correct - Flight YMHB0 NZAA (Hobart to Auckland F350) The sim NOAA and Navmap all in agreement. Cloud presentation as per metars and forecast along with applied wind. High level clouds at forecast levels still not perfect Cirrus but much better, winds aloft were all accurate as per reports and forecast. Arrival weather Auckland same, so pretty good. Light control is interesting but no dark cockpit syndrome at all. Turbulence still difficult to assess or shall we say feel or get a better idea of, you get the up and down but hard to know why or how sometimes! ATC - a non functional mess really! Thought I would see if it could manage this one - no.…

I love a study level sim aircraft, even if these days I am less of a study level studier. As a retired pilot from the airlines I thought I would try to step into something really different. Well, this aircraft is certainly challenging. I had to watch a lot of videos on YouTube just to get it set up and running. It was challenging just to get it into the air, and I was (and still am) often frustrated. Now, after a couple of months of trying to learn it, I find it is still a struggle, absent formal training. I find that I much enjoy messing with it, and takeoffs and landings are not terribly difficult. It can be really fun to take around the sky and into sma…