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    First Products Announced for Microsoft Flight Simulator

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

    Posted

    1 hour ago, chumley said:

    Cynical or not with this model MS is effectively locking people in once they have invested in the Sim. There are many directions it could take but the most scary one from my perspective is that good scenery relies on streaming data. MS could easily decide that once they have a locked in cohort to start increasing the download connection charges to a find a a user pays sweet spot  that doesn't drive away their base. Pessimism is my middle name.

    No doubt, this is all possible, yes. LM could request certificates for academic use or cancel P3D completely. Austin could be killed in a car accident.

     

    I am 68 years old and prefer to use what I get now.  For me, the whole package is a huge step forward and I will use and expand it by addons. I say this after testing for half a year, thus I know what I'll get.

     

    Kind regards, Michael

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    First Products Announced for Microsoft Flight Simulator

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, FireRx said:

    hey Mike, 

    Saw ya in the Testers list but didn't make time to contact.  Let's root for KMRY and the pennisula too.  MSFS  did their best, but the area of Carmel, Pebble beach, and PG need serious help. 

    Cheers Orbx. 

    I am positive Orbx will work quickly on them. KMRY is one of my all-time-favorites, too, and shouldn't take too long given Jarrad is a clever guy.

     

    Kind regards, Michael

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    First Products Announced for Microsoft Flight Simulator

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Mawson said:

    My experience with  DCS was that while they all ( DCS and Steam) started off as friends but there is now some incompatibility between DCS DLC addons purchased through steam and those purchased through the DCS marketplace and I got a little burned there so I would wait and see how it will all actually work .

     

    Thanks Mawson, ... although this doesn't sound really good.

     

    Kind regards, Michael

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    Poll: An OpenLC solution for Asia

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, Captain Lars said:

    No. Prepar3D offers no scenery like MSFS does. If this is OK for a customer, he's still going to buy LC scenery for his P3D as much as he is going to buy airports. Why shouldn't he? If this is not OK for him, he's not going to buy airports either. There's no difference between the two categories of products for someone who stays with P3D for the time being. 

     

    From the point of view of users there may be no difference between an OpenLC region and an airport but for the developer there is. I am convinced, Orbx will go on developing airports for MSFS and others simulators in parallel for quite some time.  There are a lot of assets and know-how they can re-use, notwithstanding differences of the platforms. However, LC-based regions are useless in MSFS and I doubt their production for the remaining Prepar3d users will pay off.

     

    In my mind, the cardinal error has been the never-ending delay of the OpenLC series. It was a great series of products once but became unprofitable over time. 

     

    Kind regards, Michael

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    Poll: An OpenLC solution for Asia

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have been pleading for OpenLC Asia for a long time, as you can see from my posting track, and I would have bought it immediately up until, say, half a year ago. After all, you are right that it was promised once to cover the whole world in a unique scheme.

     

    However, the world keeps turning. After having flown for several months now over Japan in MSFS alpha, I am not prepared to buy any landclass-based scenery any longer.

     

    Nothing wrong if anyone wants to keeps his present sim and fly in the scenery he bought but the future is elsewhere. And the future starts now. LC-based products will not sell anymore in numbers to be profitable.

     

    Kind regards, Michael

    Want a sharper image? (New nVidia driver from Nov 2019) - Image Sharpening function

    in Hardware and Tech Talk

    Posted · Edited by pmb

    22 minutes ago, renault said:

    and those with XPlane - your turn will come as well:)

     

    Cheers

    R

     

    and those with AeroflyFS2 - yours as well. :)

     

    I have been using this feature for a few days for Prepar3d4 now and like it very much. I'm still experimenting with the optimum but something around 0.56 seems to be a good start indeed.

     

    Kind regards, Michael

     

    (Sorry for "reporting" Johns (BradB) post above - this was just a wrong mouse click.)

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    To All Having CTDs - PLEASE READ !!

    in ObjectFlow 2 Open Beta

    Posted

    8 hours ago, ZK-OKQ said:

    Michael, got to p3d\simobjects/airplanes and just delete all "FTX" ai folders.

    The go to scenery/world/scenery and remove all FTX bgl file(s)

     

    I am in the process of replacing the models with fsx/p3d ones, and looking good at the moment. Only about 50% there, but a lot have been updated.

    We just need to wait for our friendly Orbx AI developer to update them.

    Thanks for the quick reply,

     

    I did the simobjects thing, however would be a bit more careful about scenery/world/scenery. First, there are FTX elevation adjustment files which I am supposedly not to delete. Next, there are files like

     

    Traffic_FTX GA Traffic.bgl

     

    which supposedly are to deleted. However what about

     

    Traffic_FTX_LIDA_P3D.bgl

     

    and a few others? A list of all files to delete from scenery/world/scenery might be of help. 

     

    Kind regards, Michael

    To All Having CTDs - PLEASE READ !!

    in ObjectFlow 2 Open Beta

    Posted

     

    3 hours ago, Nick Cooper said:

    If you have Orbx AI traffic installed into P3D v4, it is not P3Dv4 ready and

    the FTX aircraft should be removed from the airplanes folder.

     

    I tried to deinstall both AI traffic packages via FTXC3, however, both product entries are gone, whyever. Thus I cannot deinstall them.

     

    I also tried the User Guide which has a deinstallation procedure, however, the first (albeit optional)  step is running the FTX AI Control panel and acivating default traffic. This does not work either, as I can't access the control panel because the FTXC3 product entries are gone.

     

    And hints?

     

    Thanks and kind regards, Michael

    Prepar3D v4 Images and Install structure

    in Prepar3D

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Nick Cooper said:

    To date, I have installed only one scenery item using this method.

    I can see one disadvantage straight away, which is that they then all appear at the top of the in-game scenery library and

    cannot be moved.

    I see no way either of ordering them, though that may be my ignorance, rather than there not being a way. 

     

    Whether addon scenery is installed to P3D with an .xml file of not is entirely up to the scenery developer.

    If you have scenery that is no longer supported or does not have an installer, there is a small freeware utility that will "install" it

    for you. You can find it on this page

    I have the Lorby-SI tool. It shows indeed the xml files on top, i.e. with the highest priority . However, it has up/down buttons allowing to move xml-installed addons up/down the list, I just tried it and it seems to work.

     

    I have quite a number of addons using the new method (FSDreamtem, FligthBeam, Drzewiecki). While I understand this *may* help with reinstallations, it's quite a mess having Prepar3d4 files (add the numerous config files) scattered all over the computer now.

     

    Kind regards, Michael

     

    Prepar3D v4 Images and Install structure

    in Prepar3D

    Posted · Edited by pmb

    Jack, I think this is just an additional resort in case you don't get the thing to start or behave properly at all. It's indeed quite often the case something ugly crep up into exe.xml or other config files but you don't know what it is.

     

    If you don't like this feature just forget about it - as you did with Prepar3d3 where it was not available at all.

     

    Kind regards, Michael

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