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Captains, The time has finally come for SkyMaxx Pro v4 to be installed on your computers! At midnight (Sunday, December 18th, 2016), SkyMaxx Pro v4 will be released. You may find out more on the product page. If you are a current SkyMaxx Pro v3 customer you are entitled to a 50% discount on SkyMaxx Pro v4! Personal discount codes will be distributed via your e-mail on file with X-Aviation within the next 24 hours. If you are a current Real Weather Connector user you will be receiving a FREE upgrade to the new Real Weather Connector plugin for use with SkyMaxx Pro v4. This will also retain backwards compatibility with SkyMaxx Pro v3, so you may install it prior to receiving v4. As per usual with our release announcements, a video clip by the very talented and amazing @redpiper is in order! Enjoy the preview, and we'll see you tomorrow night!

and the sun rises in the west, you forgot that!

On the eve of V4 I want to take the time to thank the community for your continued support of our products. Speaking for myself, I started down this path years ago with my first release "UrbanMAXX"..... Since then I partnered up with SunDog and X-Aviation and our offerings grew to give you the very best experiences in X-Plane.... I started in the world of flight sim with FS9 and then X-Plane 9 with no intent of becoming a developer.... Once I got ahold of X-Plane 10 I fully realized the potential for this platform and was put off by the lack of development.... UrbanMAXX was born out of the idea that X-Plane could be better and why the hell not ,I'm going to be a positive influence and do my best to help.... Those days are long gone and X-Plane 11 is currently driving towards the front of the pack at a rapid pace....I like to think we had a big hand in pushing them over that divide and I am still really excited about being a part of this awesome franchise..... But we wouldn't be here if it wasnt for you guys. Again I want to thank you for supporting us through the years and we hope to be there supporting your hobby for many years to come.... John Spahn MAXX XP

There is obviously something wrong on your end either with the install or the pilot. The aircraft is flown thousands of hours every day with few problems. When/if you have something more constructive to say and more specific info about your exact problems, start a new topic in the support area and we will be happy to try to help you. This is the second time you have started a topic like this, ranting without any useful information what so ever! Read the documentation on what what info we need to help you. Do one of the tutorial flights and tell us EXACTLY where your problem starts. This is your last chance... M

I think you have answered your own question through a rather pessimistic view, Jeff. Perhaps the default clouds are more for you. But on a more serious note, SkyMaxx Pro and the SilverLining SDK are built to a spec for many high profile clients to strict standards. These clouds meet the very strict training requirements of organizations like the US Air Force, US Navy, NASA, Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, etc., all of whom are our direct customers along with hundreds more. There will always, without doubt, be some customers disappointed in a product or solution, and for every one, there will be hundreds to a thousand of others happy as can be and silent...and trust me, there's a massive number of SkyMaxx Pro customers out there. In the end, I'm sure you will very quickly find YouTube videos showing whatever it is you're requesting. I'm going to be very clear here and now: This topic is not to turn into any kind of debate or slugfest. There's enough of that drama to go around elsewhere in the community, and subsequent attempts to throw an announcement post off topic will be immediately removed.

It will! I'd say it may even go out a little earlier.

@Cameron As we have disagreed many times in the past, I truly respect your answer to my question and how you have responded to it. I do agree with you, SMP is a great product and I like it for many reasons like the puffy clouds and I also know how hard it is to make everyone happy when putting out a product. I know SMP will be working hard to make it better and it "will be" the best it can be with more updates and design in the future. I also, look forward to purchasing SMP tomorrow.

It's certainly a milestone! And I certainly appreciate the support of our customers as well. It all started with me saying "sure, why not" to John over 3 years ago. I had never met him before, and it was a big leap of faith. Never dreamed SkyMaxx Pro would end up as popular as it has become! We have a lot planned for SkyMaxx Pro's v4 run, so this isn't the end of the story. I really hope you all enjoy it. -Frank

...man flyboy1981 - do me a favour, get away from your pc go to the next town or something and try to find help the way you tried here in the forum, attach the black eye picture for us please... this would make my day!

Hiya John, Just all of the team keep striving for perfection and you'll keep moving forward anyways T Minus 9.5hrs Lol Tony

Hi All, Another milestone passed in the 733 Sim! We got a real CDU fully interfaced to IXEG 733 and X-Plane 11! So cool and fun using real hardware in a sim. For those we keen eyes, yes that i snot 100% correct CDU but it is very close and was only 75.00 compared to 800++ for a real 737 one. This one was actually retrofitted in 732, 727, DC9, MD80, and others. There are 2 short videos showing a completed route input. Super fun and thanks to IXEG making the datarefs available, a dream come true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvVsyPCtno PART 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSy9C59Hzk0

Ah Tony that's just my goofy way of saying we got a lot more stuff up our sleeves....

Heya John, Err well funnily enough i'd already guessed that lol Take Care Tony ps : Be nice if Frank Cameron and all others involved posted, it is somewhat of an historic moment in your lives i'd say

We don't announce future plans very often but rest assured we are taking the Darwinian approach

Heya John, Nothing Sappy about helping create something unique and imho much needed Glad yourself and the rest of the team strove ahead adding and tweaking Only had x-plane 12mths now, wouldn't go back to other sims now, for me years ago the way forward was 64bit And i believe in my heart of hearts the product did/has helped motivate and forward xp as a whole Shouldn't wish time away ever !! but 5am can't come fast enough for me today err tomorrow lol Thanks to Yourself and All involved I've enjoyed seeing SMP v3 evolve Now i'm gonna love seeing XP-11 SMP v4 and RWC evolve As Always Have Fun Tony

Of course!

Thanks for the quick response, Cameron. I have just started using X-Plane, starting with v11, so I was not familiar with SMP versions 1, 2, or 3. I did read that link. Sorry, I missed the "3D volumetric clouds" feature. So, when I fly into a cloud using SMP4, the scenery/horizon will disappear, as viewed from the cockpit, correct?

Looking forward to this release. Definitely buying it at its first availability - it has added immensely to my X-Plane flying experiences... Congrats! BeachAV8R

Hiya's, Started at Barra, headed off and found duff tiles which i'm regenerating now Hoping to do another run with working tile/s in both smp3 and v4 flavours today/wee hours of tomorrow Always amazing scenery when i've visited or worked up Scotland This hopefully shows just a glimpse into the Ortho with stock meshes Tony

Hueyman, As a laymans guess maybe because not all have xp11 as of yet Makes sense to show it on xp10 non beta latest platform that way (i'd assume anyways) ....................................................... I'll be doing an alnighter hoping to snag v4 5am ish my time Waiting's a pain init lol Tony ps : Nero, i have the complete opposite happen, i have a decent rig specially upgraded for xp10, i now find my fps better with more eye-candy in 11 compared to 10 !! go figure pps : If using Nvidia Gpu, strip the darn driver down to just that, the driver, !!!!!!! google it's easy Tony

Thanks for the support, Jeff!

As I as many want to know and see is....when we fly through the clouds, will we see IFR as we do in the real world and as we see in XP11 stock clouds?? Why do we only see the clouds from the outside of the plane? We fly in real life and on here from the cockpit of a plane and SMP previous versions have always disappointed pilots for the "unrealness" of flying "through" clouds depicting REAL life IFR. Can you post a video from a cockpit view so we can due our own due-diligence if we feel SMP4 is worth it or not??

The new Cessna and the new lighting are simply amazing! Enjoying sunset after a circular flight from/to Plymouth Municipal Airport / USA.

Haters will say that this look like a mashed potatoes field XD

Hiya, I'll give the versions a test later Many Thanks Tony

Hi Niilo, Thankyou Have Fun Tony

Actually, I'm still running XPlane 10 and thats SMP3 with RWC. Based on the videos I've seen I don't thing I'll be wasting the $ on X Enviro. SMP4 looks like it'll do the trick!

Ok guys, big update!! X-Plane 11 is out, and boy! is the new material model gorgeous. After a bit of studying the normal maps from the 737, I did some test with PBR maps myself and I got to say that this is amazingly satisfying. Its a week worth of producing metalness maps for the normals. Some more model edits includes a basic 3D cockpit model for exterior, new liveries and texture edits. Enjoy the screenshots!!

Fixing the CTD requires a re-write of the CRJ plugin. This is impractical and un-economical unless the CRJ is refreshed as a new product(unlikely to happen) with a new round of customer purchases. The problem with the CRJ is NOT in the CRJ code. It is in support libs that the CRJ uses and is no simple fix there either. The ONLY work around you have to reach neat and tidy perfection is this:

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error box keeps opening.. can igex staff help me like where is the ixeg support at???? I paid $74

can i please have update? the plane isnt usable

HELLO? I bought ixeg 737. vnav keeps shutting off.. so does lnav.... it keeps disabling right after i enable it.. help... how do i fix this bug? I updated the plane. i dont have this issue in PMDG boing 737 also my aircraft doesnt always decesnd when its at T/D even with mcp moved to 300 feet. HELP!

Hello, The IXEG is so buggy in xplane 10 and 11 i cant even use the aircraft. the autopilot system just doesnt work. it doesnt slow my plane down it doesnt follow flight path etc.. autothrottle doesnt work etc.. was there a update? How do i update to the latest version because i have 1.0.7 and its completely buggy. The default 737 in xplane 11 has less bugs.