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Some upcoming x-plane 10 screens
EHM-0654 Murray:
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Thankee
--- Quote ---Murray, grab the updater and do yourself a favour - keep 2 copies of x-plane. One you update to latest, one you keep to a known working configuration. Exclude the world scenery from the backup, no need to hold a duplicate of that.
http://www.x-plane.com/pg_downloads.html
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Wilco, started one off with almost nothing extra installed (just the checklister plugin).
EHM-0654 Murray:
--- Quote from: EHM-1997 Alexander on September 16, 2010, 04:21:20 pm ---More news on x-plane 10, just tamper Austin's excitability with some real-world skepticism, and you're all good.
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If what Austin says is believed, I wonder how long it'll be before his team (or a third-party) figure out "render farm" support for it... but notice that big "If" ;D
EHM-1997 Alexander:
With your setup, may be of interest: with version 9, multi monitor is achieved by slaving multiple pcs to a master, and changing views. slave machines render from position data passed by the primary.
You'll want the XPUIPC plug in, especially for your project magenta.
http://www.tosi-online.de/XPUIPC.html
You may also want my CycleViews plugin (pc and mac builds available). This cycles a pre-selected set of views forward and back using F9 and F8 like MSFS views can be cycled forward and back.
http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=536.0
EHM-0654 Murray:
Got things mostly working; yolk, pedals and throttle all working - well enough that I took off and landed in the Cirrus Vision and Cessna 172 at LOWI (even buzzed one of the balloons in the C172), and I plowed a 777 into a mountainside to see what happens ;D
Still a little confused by the GoFlight plugin - doesn't seem to have a way to save the changes made. But I'm installing the 9.60 update and if it's not too late when it finishes, I'll see if that makes any difference.
EHM-2097 Andrei:
--- Quote from: EHM-1997 Alexander on September 15, 2010, 03:22:06 pm ---I bought mine from amazon.co.uk and had it within a day. You're both nuts. ;D
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Nut #2 reporting: eventually got it yesterday and installed it on the spot.
I gave it a short try so for now I only have a very very first impression (will try harder during the week-end :) ). Thus the following lines are BY NO MEANS to be taken as my review of the product.
For IFR flights using "your regular airliner" I still prefer FS2004 (and I prefer it over FSX too).
For VFR X-Plane looks better, at least in three essential aspects:
- rivers are better rendered and STAY AT VALLEY BOTTOM instead of randomly climbing across hills
- familiar (to me, I mean :) ) mountain range looks closer to reality
- the ingame map is way more useful (and useable as well)
On the down side, it's a bit disappointing to see the mountains from the distance (when they look superbly realistic) and then, the closer one gets, the more "square" they look, and the more blurry the textures become. However this was with default rendering configuration, I'll experiment with it to see what it gives.
Also, on my first attempt, I had a very hard time telling roads from railroads (and I am not sure at all I succeeded in the end).
I still have some problems with the views, as in VFR flights I used extensively the joystick hat switch to rotate the spot view. More generally, having used MSFS for 7 years, I developed some reflex gestures and it's troubling when these have a completely different result than expected (I let you imagine the worst).
However, I hadn't yet red the whole manual (obviously, true experts never do ;D ) so still expect to find there solutions to my worries.
Andrei
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