Austin just commented over on the .org forums;

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Yah the cloud pulsing is a bug in the real weather... it is literally impossible to notice at regular speed.. you just see it at 100x replay speed, which is what we have here. I have it on the list to fix during beta.. though this fix will be impossible to ever notice at anything BUT time-lapse movies.. BUT time-lapse movies are fun, and I want to be sure the weather is accurate at each moment in TIME, so I'll still get this addressed during the beta.

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oh huh-huh... consider the pulsing cloud reports here to be the first-ever bug report of the public beta.

odd that the report can only be made if you look at the sim at 100x speed, and that the report is made before the release of the sim... but still yah this is the first beta report. (though of course there have been a gajiliion ALPHA reports internally)

 

Edited September 1, 20223 yr by Sethos

25 minutes ago, tull said:

Why isn’t there a proper video of a full flight from the cockpit shown yet from one of the beta testers…not a good video that at all 

It wasn't a full flight, but Austin streamed some XP 12 about a month ago during his interview with OrbX (the speed was x1 speed, so there is no pulsing of the clouds that people are complaining about in the XP 12 video released today):

 

Edited September 1, 20223 yr by abrams_tank

And than you wonder why they dont post anything. Just look for things to complain about.

This is a little disappointing. Why release a video that misrepresents the final product? I bet it doesn't look like that when played at normal speed. Overall, it makes me tone down my expectations. Who made the call to release that video? It makes no sense.

1 hour ago, mjrhealth said:

And than you wonder why they dont post anything. Just look for things to complain about.

They should hold the release of XP12 indefinitely so nobody can complain. Is this what you're suggesting?

Just about everyone -- both here and over at .org -- seems to be ignoring the fact that the point of the timelapsed video was to show that X-Plane 12 was able to "fly" for 10 hours straight without a CTD. It was a memory leak test (and a successful one I'd say).

And Austin even popped in and said cloud popping only occurs at those speeds, you wont notice it an normal speed.

32 minutes ago, peroni said:

They should hold the release of XP12 indefinitely so nobody can complain. Is this what you're suggesting?

Than you would just complain more, can they ever win, i doubt it. Probably be better off they never released it, than you can  complain about your complaining that caused them to give up, so they wouldnt have to deal with the complaints. Than we would have a melt down.

17 minutes ago, mjrhealth said:

Than you would just complain more, can they ever win, i doubt it. Probably be better off they never released it, than you can  complain about your complaining that caused them to give up, so they wouldnt have to deal with the complaints. Than we would have a melt down.

I agree, the video does show a lot of interesting things about XP12, especially the stability of the sim! Thanks for contributing!

I know its still early, but man, when on the ground, the graphics are looking rough. Like...2015 rough. 

I do not understand why they refuse to put watermarks on their videos and images with the words "ALPHA" or "Pre-release" or....something!

These clouds are not ready for prime time. A lot more work needs to be done. Including modeling all the types of clouds and mix of clouds etc.  

1 hour ago, Greazer said:

These clouds are not ready for prime time. A lot more work needs to be done. Including modeling all the types of clouds and mix of clouds etc.  

all versions of xplane since9 never had great clouds/sky textures.  like everyone says, xplane is for realistic flight dynamics and microsoft is for pretty visuals/vfr flying👍

1 hour ago, Beerz said:

like everyone says, xplane is for realistic flight dynamics and microsoft is for pretty visuals/vfr flying👍

The existence of planes like the Fenix, PMDG line, 310 etc. in MSFS puts a lid on that nonsense. Better to keep the discussion to X-Plane 12 anyway.

I'm not sure what relevance this video is other than show one can speed up a video to a point where one can't really see anything of value.  But that's just me.