John Venema Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Hi everyone, We have posted quite some review shots from EGHR Goodwood, KSFF Felts Field, NZMF Milford Sound and also CYBD Bella Coola recently and many of you are eager anticipating these airports. Let me give you updates on each of these ok? EGHR Chichester - SIM720 our Hampshire studio have hit a snag with airport management over permissions for certain copyright logos and signage at the airport which unfortunately should have been agreed on before development began, but we can't do much about it until that is all sorted. We don't want to release anything which breaches copyright and branding. Bear with us until that is resolved, which we hope is soon. The airport is not yet beta tested but last time I saw it was feature complete. KSFF Felts Field - Jarrad's next airport is all but done, but testing has uncovered some potential show-stoppers which Jarrad and I have deemed to not be acceptable to release to customers. Jarrad however, is on a plane to Vietnam at present and won't be able to address those issues for a week, so we'll have to delay release until then. NZMF Milford Sound - Heiko and Andreas are making great progress on this charming airport and are just working around some P3D compatibility issues and final vegetation tweaking and also trying to bed down a new surprise animation feature which would be cool if we can make it work. The online version will make xmas, the DVD version will not. CYBD Bella Coola - We have hit a performance wall with Russ's amazing new 3D grass (which runs quite well on high end PCs). In order to allow customers with modest hardware to enjoy this 2cm airport, I've asked Russ to add a new "lite" grass option so that FPS is acceptable to low-mid range PCs. This means we'll likely release this on Wednesday now. UPDATE: Bella Coola is now released - http://www.flightsim...roducts_id=2229 UPDATE #2: EGHR Chichester Airport is now in testing. We will no longer refer to this airport using the name Goodwood due to brands and licensing issues. Yours in updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocBird Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 That's life! Thanks for your hard work and thanks that Obrx does not follow other developers and make us customers the beta-testers but only releases the software when it is ready... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2189 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 great to hear thanks alot John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamJSS Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Bella Coola I can't wait! Thanks for the update. Lots of good stuff coming down the pipe soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyxx Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Always good to hear updates even if they are not good news, but at least we know whats happening and that's good. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf2grey Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Thanks John........Bella Coola is my top one on that list so i am excited about its soon release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymar99 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Thanks for the details. Christmas will be here before we know it. Regards, Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Hamilton Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Guess the only one we won't see this year is Goodwood, hopefully those issues can be resolved. Lot of work to have to possibly scrap it just because of some signage permissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Thanks for the update. I'm sure I wont't be able to resist. Oh, sweet temptation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Always good to hear updates even if they are not good news, but at least we know whats happening and that's good. Thanks. Agreed; unhappy news is better than no news at all. And considering the vast unexplored areas of Orbx scenery I already own, I have plenty to keep me occupied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Meson Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I'm sure we all apreciate the update John, as to the snags, It is unfortunately the price of doing busines, particulaly when your busines demands such high standards. Cheers, Davo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucevan Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I was wondering what had happened to Goodwood. I was hoping for it for Christmas, but happy to wait. I hope you get it sorted out Ok. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Thank you for the update. I can now stop checking FSS for the release of Felts every hour Bella Coola is now on the release scope. Though I realize it's not ready until it's ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Thanks for the update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Hannant Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Thanks for the update John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaseman007 Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Yep. Great news. Picked up nzni and si today so Milford sound is going to rock. Gonna be picking up bella coola Wednesday if all goes well. Jas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taph Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Thanks for the Update, appreciated good luck with getting them all sorted. will revise my xmas list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_pilot Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 The airport when released? In 2013? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marith Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Thanks John for the update. I'm happy to wait until any issues are resolved and they're ready to be released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom Mason Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Very much appreciated, John. Duly noted. I really hope you will be able to solve this brand and copyright issue. Welcome in this good old Europe where everything has becomen a restriction. This is a nightmare to imagine that a virtual sign or virtual brand can actually become a real issue... Best Dom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 The airport when released? In 2013? According to his post, that airport, Bella Coola, will be released tonight/tomorrow if everything goes smoothly. No guarantees, but definitely soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaseman007 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Indeed last post advised today (Wednesday). Looking forward to it. Jas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grover149 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Wonderful news about Bella Coola. Looks like I'll be buying myself an early Christmas present. A hearty thank you and a happy holiday season to all. grover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjjallen Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Happy news! KSFF and CYBD are on my list. Cheers jja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 5, 2012 Author Share Posted December 5, 2012 Yes Bella Coola today (Wednesday GMT) if Adrian and Jay get the servers populated before their bedtime in Australia Otherwise it will be later this evening I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Hannant Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Bella Coola out now - and it's lurvely... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Düsselwings Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Thanks John and your crew for this jewel and all the other places, we've got! My ORBX folder increases now to a new record size, after Bella Coola ;-) I wish, I could say that also about my credit card account ;-) But it's worth every cent! And finally, I built a FSX with just ORBX on it and this works great! ORBX, what else? All the best and go on with that fantastic job, Stephan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom Mason Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Hi Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but keep thinking more and more about Terrace CYXT since it would be a perfect stop between Bella Coola and PAKT / Stewart. I know that projects strongly depend on photo materials but is it a possible project in the future ? Best Recommending this link for some great tours ! http://www.bellacoolaair.com/tours.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 8, 2012 Author Share Posted December 8, 2012 Hi Dom, Consider CYBD the final airport in Russ White's "Super HD Trilogy" for Pacific Fjords. His focus now and through 2013/14 is to make standard definition VFR airports in the UK and then onwards into the rest of Europe. We won't likely be making any more 2cm/pixel airports for a long while since they take an extraordinary amount of work to make. We are shifting our focus to nice atmospheric VFR airports in more densely populated areas where simmers will want to spend a day hopping from one location to another, sort of like what we did for PNW but set in Europe instead. I'd like to have about 50 or more EU small to mid sized VFR airports on sale by the end of 2014. We are are looking at doing some historical WWII England airfields. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom Mason Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 50 ? Great news ! Thanks for your answer. Dom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toriu Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 "We are are looking at doing some historical WWII England airfields." Great news John, I hope you will include RAF Little Rissington. I was born there 1940 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolRayz Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 On the subject of historical airfields, are there plans for adding RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. I flew to these two airfields, which are in very close proximity to each other, and they are completely missing from FTX England. Rendlesham forest is there, but no airfields, odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 UPDATE #2: EGHR Chichester Airport is now in testing. We will no longer refer to this airport using the name Goodwood due to brands and licensing issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocBird Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 UPDATE #2: EGHR Chichester Airport is now in testing. We will no longer refer to this airport using the name Goodwood due to brands and licensing issues. Oh that bloody legal stuff!!! If you have more of this when you go over to Germany let me know. Maybe we can help Orbx out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocBird Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I'd like to have about 50 or more EU small to mid sized VFR airports on sale by the end of 2014. We are are looking at doing some historical WWII England airfields. John, you mentioned in another thread that Orbx is in close contact with the developers of P3D. Does your above post mean that the Orbx-add-ons will also work with P3D 2.0 when it arrives in 2013? (Yes I know that P3D will likely not be released before the end of 2013) Best regards, DocBird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 We are not assuming that P3D 2.0 is backward compatible with 1.x at all. In fact we'd prefer it is isn't. The price of progress would mean that certain old ways of doing things in FSX/P3D1.x are likely to be re-vamped. This may include autogen, animation, SimConnect, core engine functionality etc. We don't have visibility on any of that yet and if we did we are under NDA. For us though, we'd prefer to have to re-engineer our older code if it meant we got a much better sim in the end, ie DirectX 11 support, processes offloaded to the GPU, new real-time shadows, cloud shadows (add your wishlist items here). The best possible solution is to have P3D 2.0 have a "legacy mode" whereby older 1.x sceneries and addons will work in some form of emulation of the older systems. But the LM guys know what we want, we've asked them a long time ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonman Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 This is all great and fantastic news!!!!!!! ... 50 EU-airports ... i guess i will spend a lot, lot, lot of time with flightsimming next year! We are not assuming that P3D 2.0 is backward compatible with 1.x at all. In fact we'd prefer it is isn't. The price of progress would mean that certain old ways of doing things in FSX/P3D1.x are likely to be re-vamped. This may include autogen, animation, SimConnect, core engine functionality etc. We don't have visibility on any of that yet and if we did we are under NDA. For us though, we'd prefer to have to re-engineer our older code if it meant we got a much better sim in the end, ie DirectX 11 support, processes offloaded to the GPU, new real-time shadows, cloud shadows (add your wishlist items here). The best possible solution is to have P3D 2.0 have a "legacy mode" whereby older 1.x sceneries and addons will work in some form of emulation of the older systems. But the LM guys know what we want, we've asked them a long time ago Super!!!!! It is truly great to read, that our enthusiasm and interest in aviation and flightsimming in specific here has a bright future ahead and all these days of dll.crashes, stutters and all that stuff will more and more belong to the past! FANTASTIC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilstorm Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 We are are looking at doing some historical WWII England airfields. I lease about 99% of your products and have a new system being shipped to me with a bigger SSD to support your growing addons. I had no interest in buying your England region as I can only fly in so many places at once although the idea of some of the other regions in that area to come do tempt me. However, if you guys do some WWII England airfields as mentioned, well thats a different story and I will certainly be getting the region packages as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 Indeed we are doing WWII airports and have already begun development on the first one, (set in 1942) and we are even using historial aerial photos from archives for maximum authenticity. We want to be able to provide an England which allows the recreation of the Battle of Britain days in all its glory. It's such an important part of aviation history that we would be remiss to not facilitate it. If you can imagine pulling up to a WWII airport in your Spitfire, seeing those khaki coloured uniforms and trucks, smoking pilots and officers chatting around the mess and hearing the Andrews Sisters over the tannoy .... that is what we want to capture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilstorm Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 That truly is great news as you have already read many times a demand by customers wanting this so I applaude you guys for this. Not only are you guys doing regions but now you guys are doing era's as well! Great stuff. Now just to get some mud painted on to that Spitfire of mine to feel at home at the kind of airfield and I will be all set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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