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Atmosphere 2!

Being away from my simming PC i'm collecting some hardware upgrades for it. Today my new MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G arrived, so i hopped into B1900 to test how the card handles X-Plane. Counting days until my Dell U3415W 34" 3440x1440 curved 21:9 display arrives. It is going to replace it's smaller brother Dell U2913WM 29" 2560x1080, also 21:9 aspect ratio. Eager to do some serious IFR 3D cockpit flying when my new monitor arrives. Coupled with TrackIR, the huge ultra-panoramic display (5000000+ pixels) should improve my immersion factor. At least i do hope so! ... but in the meantime on my desktop PC (slower) + Dell 3007WFPHC 30" 2560x1600 (16:10) :

About to head out from Istanbul

It seems as if the clouds are obscuring the billboard lights when HDR is turned on. I have tried different settings and only noticed this while building an airport. Below are some pics with HDR on and SkyMaxx enabled and disabled. Not sure if this can be fixed or not, but I thought you may want to know. X-Plane 10.32 SkyMaxxPro 2.1.1

Aerial patrol over Paris with the AS350 and the Dassault Rafale.

This is already happening as we speak ... the X-plane default mesh (or the HD Mesh) do all use an irregular mesh .... which does exactly this: making less triangles where landscape is less interesting, and adding more, where more happens. But also remember, that triangles are not only needed for elevation but also to represent (reflect9 the landclass (as texturing is decided on per-triangle basis). In this old(er) interview, you can see quite a few screenshots, showing the irregular mesh (and other details about the scenery generation): http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?13946-Interview-With-Andras-Fabian

We still plan on finishing the Hawker 4000. I certainly hope so! Fixing up the panel a little. As soon as those fixes are in place, we can finally add more screenshots. Maybe a small video to show how some of the systems work.