Xplane 10

[Simmo W]

Looking good!

http://www.x-plane.com/v10-pix/2.jpg

http://www.x-plane.com/v10-pix/3.jpg

http://www.x-plane.com/v10-pix/1.png

[Kesomir]

need daytime pic...

nice catch -again- sully.

Those night shots look real - are these for real?

[Simmo W]

yeah, that approach shot, it looked real at first. That Shuttle looks nicely worn, well done (can I say?....)

[Kesomir]

individual car headlights eh, smooth looking new road textures. osm road data - sweet.

Want to see one of those spaghetti junctions though.

[dan]

The lighting, and night lighting in particular look absolutely stunning and must have undergone a total rewrite. Looks like scenery designers will finally get to use real lights that cast light on moving objects like planes and cars. Can't wait to see some day time shots! ;D

[Simmo W]

yep, would love a day shot - but in the CRJ, over that night lighting, why bother with daytime?!

[uwespeed]

I just booked my summer holiday (thus ... happy mood) and right afterwards seeing those shots ... even better mood, because I imagined I just have landed on my "holiday airport" and am driving towards the holiday resort ;D.

[Kesomir]

yep, would love a day shot - but in the CRJ, over that night lighting, why bother with daytime?!

Becuase this sort of thing would be great in x-plane

[Oliver]

:o :o :o That looks so real!! Freeze me and unfreeze me up when X-Plane 10 is out 

[Baber20]

Those shots look awesome. Where did you get them from sully ? Kesomir, is that day shot from XP-10 ?

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[MdMax]

Becuase this sort of thing would be great in x-plane

Orbx ? Do they plan to release their sceneries for X-Plane 10 ?

[emin0413]

http://www.fullterrain.com/product_ystw.html

3rd row, 1st picture.

As much as we would like to see that in x-plane 10, we just don't know. ORBX has made no signs of even considering going into the x-plane market. For now, we can only hope that x-plane will have ORBX quality scenery.

[tkyler]

x-plane HAS orbx quality ability...but as you can see, the workload to bring that to fruition is seriously intense.  I hope x-scenery will return to scenery one day soon! :-P

[MdMax]

the workload to bring that to fruition is seriously intense.

Yes,  intense... and the result is here for Orbx: great videos out there:

[Kesomir]

Becuase this sort of thing would be great in x-plane

Orbx ? Do they plan to release their sceneries for X-Plane 10 ?

Not to my knowledge, my post was justa  reply to sully as to what I would love to see in a day shot of xp10.

Doubt it will look anything like that but am hoping for some 'at least fsx quality' default airports in at least the major cities

[RealScenery]

Those shots look awesome. Where did you get them from sully ? Kesomir, is that day shot from XP-10 ?

Austin sent out an email to the X-Plane News Yahoo Group last night.

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/xplane-news/

[garrettm30]

I wonder what kind of hardware that is going to take. I'm hoping some of it is merely different because of a rewrite than computationally more expensive. I guess we won't know until closer to release, if then. I may have to start saving up.

[Kesomir]

I hope it will start utilising my top end gear more, specifically, all the empty cores

[Paraffin]

The shuttle textures look nice, but what's with the aliasing/jaggies around the edges of the model? That looks awful. I hope it's just a wrong setting on the render options, or maybe it's a bad enlargement of a smaller screen shot? Austin needs to be careful about releasing stuff like this, because some people (like...er, me) will look for the flaws as well as the obvious eye candy.

On the Orbx stuff... Someone will eventually do that level of scenery for X-Plane, but I wouldn't expect it in the stock program. I'd rather see the effort go into flight model, the overall render engine, weather etc. At the risk of offending the scenery builders here, I think scenery at that level of detail is mostly just a lot of grunt work on the production end. I love seeing scenery like that, and would buy it if it was available for X-Plane. I just can't help but feel that we're in a temporary era of hand-made scenery anyway. Eventually Google will figure out how to solve the privacy issues involved in mapping your neighborhood in high-res 3D.

[Simmo W]

yep Eric, I got the email from the xplane newsgroup, I'm not that closely linked!

[alexgeo]

Looks like I'm gonna need a new computer... 

[-TheoGregory]

Its called anti aliasing... Austin quite often puts up unaliased shots. Which seems a bit in a products preview... but I wouldn't go as far as to say it looks awful. Even FSX'ers know that X-Plane's AA can be set. It is a vast improvement... But the lighting engine doesn't look very different to X-Plane 9's engine.

The lighting still looks like its done with images and the lights do go into the ground but the glow is not physical. Its something that is done in the eyes. Therefore I think the draw order should be higher than the ground so it shouldn't go in the ground.

Also the Weather system looks the same, however, its a WIP. So i'm sure austin hasn't got round to impliementing it all.

I'm being nit picky, and the shots still look great. Good job Austin and Ben!

[Baber20]

The lighting still looks like its done with images and the lights do go into the ground but the glow is not physical. Its something that is done in the eyes. Therefore I think the draw order should be higher than the ground so it shouldn't go in the ground.

Also the Weather system looks the same, however, its a WIP. So i'm sure austin hasn't got round to impliementing it all.

Yes, lighting system does look like V9's with a little bit of improvement. Agreed on that one.

About the weather, I know it's a WIP but still my eyes couldn't see any significant improvement in it.You can see how the clouds look in that Shuttle screenshot. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks.

[Goran_M]

I think it's still far too early to point out any criticisms in XP 10.  If it was ready, it would be on the market.  V9 went from 9.2 to 9.6 and is still being improved. 

What you are seeing is most likely not the final version. 

AFAIC, I think it looks spectacular and can't wait to get my hands on it.