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Three years ago XHT Labs published a video along with the following words on its website: “For some time now we are working on tools for smart scenery creation based on Open Street Maps data processed through advance algorithms to get as real as possible towns and villages. We’re trying to use most of the latest X-plane 10’s features to bring you new flight experience.” On the 8th of February this year it published the above video with these words: “Scenery system possibilities test Central Europe region X-Plane 10.32 64-bit. Custom definitions of terrain, vegetation and autogen features (FOR, TER, AGS, AGB)” Below is a link to their original video. As you can see, …

Does the OpenScenery installer put a reference in the scenery_packs.ini file? I had installed awhile back and thought for sure I saw entry there but none now. If there is supposed to be an entry what would it look like? I know my location would be different but I could adjust. I double checked and tried to install again but apparently it sees it is there or there was an error, because it says "Done" but nothing happened. Thanks Bob

Alabeo\Carenado released the 207 today. I picked it up this afternoon and did a quick flight in it. Great plane, inside and out. Uses the default 530 GPS and comes in 2 versions Bush and Regular. Shown here is the regular version. Rob

Hi I've been creating photosceneries with g2xpl program. Everything works ok, except that almost every airport I choose (doesnt matter if its on USA or Europe)... have textures with different colours and looks really awfull I'm using Bing as map provider. I just go to bing maps web page, and I can see already there the colour issue. Is there somethign I'm doing wrong ? Can't understand why most of the locations I've tried have this problems. As an example, KSEA.

For years, I have used the "flat" runway option. This was brought about by turning it on early in my X-Plane experience and having bounced around all over the place when I first tried to use it. I turned it off and hadn't, until recently, turned it back on. As was brought to my attention by Andras/Alpilotx when I was having problems with some elevations around an airport while using his fabulous hd_mesh_v3, sometimes the airport just doesn't mesh with the surrounding terrain unless the "runways follow contours" is selected. This is because his mesh is more accurate than the airport scenery. This corrected my problem and works very well. It does, however, …

Simply connect, select pc input on the TV and it works. Seems the resolution is defined by the PC as in the pic? You get two displays and can move around with the mouse for ex. X-plane/FSX etc. on my huge TV and some instruments on the PC. Great, will try later Doom3BFG on Ubuntu as it supports 3D TV. :wub:

Here's a picture around Phoenix, Arizona. I have Andras's UHD in play, and SkyMaxx Pro decked right out...and giving me fabulous metrics. I have picked up 2 FPS in this area, only by having gone to the latest beta. I normally get between 27-29, pre beta, but now am getting in the same area, 29-31. Has anybody else noticed a slight bump in performance? Did they tweak some slight file structure? I read the release notes, but who knows...when they play around with the platform....but whatever...great performance as you can see in the top left, for the cloud sets...the great UHD mountains in the background...and some of the best flying, yet! XPX ROCKS! http://fs…

Anyone try both of these plugins for the Saitek Panels. Bob

Hi, I recently started simming again after an 18 month hiatus caused by building work. I have a new PC now and have decided to try X plane & prepar3D as well as FSX. I am a keen fan of photoscenery as opposed to the generic landclass type ( I have lots of Orbx, but don't really like it). I have found only limited areas and makers of photoscenery for X plane on my initial searching, are there photoscenery users within the Xplane community here who can advise me of the best etc. Is it needed in X plane, or is teh scenery generall better than in FSX? And what about the mesh in FSX, great photoscenery is nothing without the vertical detail. How does that work in Xpl…

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Hi Simmers I'm putting out an idea here to see if it's something people would be interested in doing and participating in. Basically, it's a way we can build up better scenery as a community of flight simmers (and other simulators which will use the data). The idea would work like this: 1) Each week (or time period) we all vote on an area around an airport (or it could be just an interesting area) which isn't well-mapped on OSM. Generally this means quite a large part of the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and also many parts of the UK, Spain, etc.. I'm not sure how we could nominate which airports, but we can think up this. 2) Each participant takes a small area to…

Well I finally bought X-Plane after years and years of being an "FS Only" type of person. Just wanted to get everyone's opinion on the best add-on's out there! Preferably free, but I'd be willing to cough up a few bucks for some decent payware!

Hi All. I am quite new to X Plane but I am seeing a constant movement in the views I have set,as if the pilot was moving his head around all the time,just enough to make it difficult to manipulate the switches. Am I missing something in the settings that would cause this? I have X Camera installed,but even with that uninstalled I still get this movement. Any ideas? Thanks Dennis O K I found out what was causing this,I must have clicked on "Toggle Cinema Verite" when I first got X Plane installed. I was probably pushing all sorts of buttons and features to see what they did. May be I should have read the manual first !!?? Thanks Dennis

Has anyone else seen their Lateral Field of View adjustments (under Rendering Options) become locked? I cannot alter the 80.00 I changed it to many months ago. And - while on the subject, what setting seems to be the most realistic? Thanks, John

Last night I installed my real HSI into the sim and did a test flight. All is working except the DME display which i'm trying to evaluate the best direction to go there. I made a very short clip of the AP making a climbing turn onto the GPS path. This was a major hurdle that many have struggled to make work and through the efforts of a few behind the scene guys we accomplished the goal. http://youtu.be/O3wUYOD1UeQ

Hello, I am having an issue with the Anisotropic filtering setting in XP10 and am wondering if anyone has a solution. I have the anisotropic filtering setting set to 16x, but textures look extremely blurry when viewed from the side. As an example, the side of the default C172 looks crisp and sharp when viewed straight on, but as I rotate the view towards the nose or tail, the textures become increasingly blurry. Another example: When I am in the 3D cockpit on a runway, the runway textures look very blurry and not sharp at all. If I look straight down in the external view, the runway textures are very crisp. The anisotropic filtering setting is not doing anything at …

Hi, I had posted another subject about issues with capturing glideslope but have experimented some and this is what I found It seems that if I use the Flight Director to position myself 10-15 degrees under the GS, and then engage AP, it captures, if not it is somewhat erratic. Also it seems that anything greater than a 40 degree offset from the Localizer when engaging the AP is also an issue, even at a slow approach speed of 100 kts. Anyway, I am not sure if this is true to the S-Tec itself or a limitation of the implementation by Carenado. There is a few articles out there but it is difficult to determine what is and is not implemented by Carendao vs the real S-…

After the successful release of "HD Mesh Scenery v3" last December, the new "UHD Mesh Scenery v1" tries to push the limits of the X-Plane 10 scenery engine even further. The general characteristics of "UHD Mesh Scenery v1" are identical to those described in HD Mesh Scenery v3. The main differences (and improvements) are: 30m resolution DEM elevation data instead of 90m DEM data. (once more) massively increased mesh density ... by roughly factor 2.5 to 3! This is not only beneficiary to the better representation of the higher res DEM data, but also - once more - improves landclass and forest detail. Because of this, the "UHD Mesh Scenery v1" Scenery is very heavy on …

I guess glNext will destroy OpenGL 4.* in the same way that DX12 does with DX11: We need to wait for GDC next month to get details and then cross fingers to get it for X-Plane 11: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Next-Gen-OpenGL-GDC15 DirectX 12 versus DirectX 11 - DX12 Techdemo (Futuremark) The DirectX 12 Performance Preview: AMD, NVIDIA, & Star Swarm

Finally , as a developer eagerly waiting for WED1.4 with the new orto-photos import and automatic pols with load-center.

Hi, I just bought the Carenado Malibu and it is an incredible piece of work. Never flew one so can't say anything about the FD except keep the power on all the way down or she will drop like a rock. I have 2 questions/issues 1. The AP system is the S-Tec 55x which through me for a loop with the proper operation. I did not know the FD/AP was a 2 position switch. Anyway things went much better after that.The GS though is not very accurate as it will not follow until a couple miles before the OM. I was just curious if this is an inherent issue with XP, and not the implementation of the AP for this plane. 2. After disconnecting the AP 100 feet or so above the thre…

A friend of mine recently got into XP10 He runs three monitors with two gtx 980's SLI He says even with changing FOV it makes the cockpits very zoomed up. If the FOV is a high number it's better but the sky and moon looks very pixelated. I only run a monitor so I told him is post here. Are there any special settings for multi mon support?

I looked through that huge thread with the nice sky colors the other day. A friend of mind just got into XP10 and I shared the link to the entire thread here. But he got lost pretty quickly. At one time I knew what to so but now I'm not so sure. Is there an abbreviated thread or a few posts that describe how to do it?

Hi: when I get CTD's I get files with the extension ".dmp" are generated instead of .log files. What are they and how do I read them? Thanks, Dave

Testing ATC, XP10.32 I get to the runway ... ... another aircraft ahead of me .... they never get a takeoff clearance. Waited 20 min .. no takeoff clearance. Note: while holding no other aircraft taking off or landing on my takeoff runway. Aborted the flight. Tried the flight a second time .. got to hold short (end of taxi arrows) no takeoff clearance for 20 min or so. Note: while holding no other aircraft taking off or landing on my takeoff runway. Aborted the flight. BTW, all taxi instructions and freq changes were ok. Anyone else seeing this?