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looks amazing!

Has anyone tried XP12 with live weather from Southwest Florida? I'm curious as to how XP12 depicts Hurricane Ian.

Hi created this for Linux users, so the windows discussion can be left in peace.

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/268914-updating-existing-ortho-for-xp12/&do=findComment&comment=2417062

I came across these posts to hide the roads in X-Plane to allow the roads in the ortho to show. However, these don't appear to work in XP-12. https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/137541-transparent-road-and-autogen-textures-for-photoscenery/#comment-1321173 https://melb00m.github.io/Transparency4Ortho/ Has anybody used these tools in the past / with XP-12 and can advise?

The main difference in the scenery between these two pair of screenshots is the vegetation (different polygons and textures). I think this could be a good starting point for LR to improve default scenery. A lot of bang for the buck (i.e. good visual improvements with little development time necessary).

Some users have experienced various weirdinesses since beta 4 was pushed into their versions of XP12, me included... I filled a Bug Report with LR. Ground winds were really not matching Real World Weather, and then I noticed the same appeared to happen in altitude, to winds and cloud layers... The effect is visible on the Weather Settings screen: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QlB1l7mal4CVm5ykXG0GpAd566Al10bW/view?usp=sharing

Hi, so I have not long purchased the les saab340 and while still trying to learn the aircraft I have come across an issue that I cannot figure out how to fix. How do I steer the aircraft when on the ground? I have tried a few of my other x plane aircraft and they all seem to steer fine using the twist function of my x55 joystick but this does not seem to work on the saab Does anyone who has this aircraft know what I might be doing wrong in getting the steering to work thanks

X-Plane 12 Mods, Liveries & Add-Ons | X-Plane.to I think this website is a nice touch for XP12 and this type of approach for X-Plane in 2022 is maybe the way forward.

Today I visited badbadweather.com and realised in GCXO (I like that airport) is very low visibilty. So I beamed my plane on rwy 12 and made the following screenshot:

Felis has just made the XP11 Tu154 free to download. The download link is in this org post.

After beta 4 update, I noticed a performance drop on all payware aircraft I have on XP12. (Felis 747, FF A350, B757, B767, Toliss A321, A340). Regarding default aircraft, there was no change in performance. I also noticed a performance drop due to some plugins. XPRealistic, but only when the control panel is open. X-Camera and SkunkCraft Updater cause performance drop just by being activated. When I disable both in Plugin Admin, the performance returns to normal, using the default aircraft. I can't report this in the feedback, because it's a problem caused by addons and I don't know if I should bother the developers of each addon with this or just wait for them …

Since contrarily to MS / ASOBO, Active Sky and similar approaches to weather injection are not only open but even more well treated by the new weather model in X-Plane 12, I would really like to see ASXP upgraded to this new version of X-Plane. I am biased maybe, because I have been a long time member of their beta team, but I still think that the only bias comes from the excellent products HiFi has always made available for all platforms. Really looking fwd into it !

One of the most noticeable features about XP12, with or without SimHeaven Europe and America activated, and over a range of graphics options, is that it put's a lot more of stress in my Ryzen 5600x and RTX 3060 Ti. Whenever I am playing XP12, with no AI Traffic and the basic ATC, both way inferior to my experience with default ATC and AI in MFS, the fans in my CPU and GPU reach the top. I can't really complain about performance, although I have experienced some stutters near ground just about to touch down like I never experienced in MFS in DX11 and even less in DX12, but the temperatures reached by both the GPU and CPU with the very uneven load distribution amo…

Have done two longer flights in the latest iteration of the Zibo and like what I am seeing thus far. Clouds can be wonky at times and AA is pretty rough, but what has annoyed me the most is that sometimes (maybe depending on the angling of the sunlight?) I get this awful stroboscopic effect from the lighting. Anyone else suffering from this at times?

Hey all. Since the other topic has gone to 10 pages, and I couldnt find a post focusing about Post Release Impressions and Personal Review, I thought I might give my own here. And hope other users who also get it can give their own as well. The addon is one I have been looking forward for almost 2 years, since I first learned of the project. Since then, I have switched Sims multiple times, but as you will soon understand, it doesn't matter which sim you prefer, with this specific Addon. Let me first say, if you want a quick and easy addon for jump in, get some rough fuel numbers, upload a flightplan from the internet, and takeoff, this is not for you. Just make …

Waiting for LR to improve AA quality, I found the following method. It works best if you are using an FSR setting other than "Off" (i.e. if your FSR slider is NOT full right). In this case, set your FSR to "Off" (slider full right), and set AA to "FXAA". You should get better image clarity with better performance. I made a comparison in the following images. Note in particular the clarity of aircraft gauges, the yellow runway line and the trees in the cockpit image. And the tail leading edge and aircraft shadow in the external image. EDIT: Of course you should watch the images back to back in full resolution to better appreciate the difference.

Going to start this thread with the 2 planes I've installed so far. Fly J Sim 727--- Not compatible- Engines are acting weird, lots of other problems Aerobask Eclipse 550--- Not compatible- engines overheating, flight dynamics feel off. Avitab ---Compatible-- seems to be working great though and connecting fine with my navigraph account.

Kind of scrating my head here a bit. I propably just never flew an aircraft that simulated the cabin pressure. Got a cabin atitude warning at 16.000 feet. Found some buttons for Master Oxygen and Fresh Air but it did not help. I went down to a safe altitude to continue the flight. I looked in the manual https://www.x-plane.com/manuals/SF50_Pilot_Operating_Manual.pdf but I cannot quite figure out what I should have done differently. Does anybody use this aircraft and has a hint for me ?

Hopefully, this is something easy I'm missing but I didn't find anything in my searches. When I load an aircraft, I get an information window that says "Procedures file not found. Monitors file not found. Customs file not found." I looked at the Log.txt file in the X-Plane directory but I didn't see anything there. I can close the Information window and fly without issue. But it would be nice to fix what is missing. How do I fix it so that the windows doesn't popup each time? Jonathan

From the other forums someone stated :- Realize the maintainer of ortho4xp hasn't been seen for years. As of now, the only work is to see how we can run a script to update existing entries. is that true?!

Just gets more amazing! The lighting is the USP with XP-12, with the haze/visibility effects superb also. My only criticism of XP-12 so far is the lack of shadows to ground features. If shadows were added, the realism in XP-12 will be off the charts for me. A short video to show just how beautiful this simulator can be.

I don't think we need LR to reinvent the wheel with ground textures as these can be generated from ortho4xp, we just need realistically placed objects to make XP12 great. Obviously this cannot be resolved with osm data alone so LR probably need some AI tool to create this. Does anyone have any idea how this could be achieved to help them out?? 😉

This is from a few hours of testing so far, we are all smart enough so i don't have to repeat that obviously this is at the current state of vanilla XP12, which is what my money gave me access to. Certainly there will be things which will improve in the future, things that addon will improve, but also things that will improve in the same way they did in XP11 without a real step up. The focus will obviously be on the visual part of it, which is what the community asked the most for XP12 (for a reason..). What i always do, in basically any sim now, is takeoff from the airport close to my city (LIRP) to check the territory i know enough and, since i live in Tuscany, has…

I have a HDR600 monitor, so some HDR highlights are blown out. This MS windows app helps you calibrate your HDR for the maximum nits your monitor can produce. Easy to use and has improved HDR a great deal for me - no more blown out clouds!!