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asheft

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  1. WOW! I knew that this had been requested before but I wasn't expecting a solution anywhere near this soon. Seriously, weather-wise, this looks like a game-changer for X-Plane. I know you guys don't like to provide release dates, but generally speaking, are we looking at weeks or months (or longer) for this? Will be buying for sure when it comes out, actually being able to see the weather a couple minutes in front of you is going to be seriously great! I am continually impressed by all the efforts of Maxx-XP (and of course X-Aviation) to create a more immersive sim environment.
  2. Yeah I know (well, maybe not but that wasn't the meaning I was trying to convey)... I was trying to joke that it looked a ton like a real airliner photo. Looking back on it, I worded it wrong...
  3. That airliner photo is a cool shot... how close does Skymaxx v3 come to looking like that in the simulator ?
  4. Nope. I think it's up to 52 degrees before the heel touches the floor and you need to raise the footplates higher.
  5. I don't remember off the top of my head whether it's USB 2.0 or 3.0. It's a USB-B plug on the pedals though, if that gives you any idea. I believe that the calibration is not necessary unless you change the pedal angle (which you should! It comes with 20 degrees and you really need more than that), however it doesn't take very long and is a good idea to do. Once you do that the settings are stored in the pedals onboard memory and it will be recognized by X-Plane.
  6. Hi everyone, I just wanted to spread the word about an amazing set of high quality, custom made rudder pedals that have (IMO) gotten very little exposure on X-Plane forums. They have a long waiting time (I filled out a preorder form in January and got them in early July), but the production efficiency is increasing. They are made by a man in Croatia out of a very high quality composite material (high pressure laminate), which he has access to (as well as a CNC machine) due to him also co-owning a furniture production buisiness. The two most notable features on these pedals that really set them apart are the large number of adjustability options (spring strength, linear vs. exponential feedback, pedal angle, braking spring strength, pedal swivel, ability to switch footplates to for example the F-16 style footplates that will be available later on), and the CAM profile that is used for centering. This allows you to customize the centering feedback between center detent and no center detent, as well as the progressive increase in spring strength. A full features list is available at his website, http://mfg.simundza.com/. Personally, I had a couple of issues with my pedals when I first got them (most of them my fault, one kind of weird issue that got past QC), and the support from him has been absolutely oustanding, second to none IMO. They aren't cheap, but they will last you a very long time due to the excellent build quality. This thread on SimHQ covers many stages of the development, and probably gives some info and details that I forgot to mention here. http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3782056/1. Anyway, I would highly recommend checking them out. They fill a gap in rudder pedal quality between ones like CH and Saitek, and very expensive PFC pedals, for what is really a very reasonable price, and while having much better support than any of those companies. Edit: I forgot to mention the sensors used, unlike basically everything else on the market (even PFC pedals, as far as I can tell, except for the crazy expensive 3 thousand dollar ones), they use contactless, high resolution magnetic sensors. Hall effect sensors are used for the brakes, and a magnetoresistor for the main rudder axis, all of which are 12-bit (meaning 4096 possible positions).
  7. I can never get why people are able to read enough of the thread to understand that it is/will be a good product that they want to get and then not read just the last page to find out that the release date is still unknown... Seriously just scroll up 7 or 8 posts...
  8. I'd think that Skymaxx would be more taxing on pixel fill rate than VRAM... maybe I'm wrong about that though.
  9. I've heard the opposite, that for X-Plane single core CPU performance is very important (equally important as the GPU) for all of the CPU intensive rendering options . And also, to the OP, there is no way that based on the two components you've specified (2gb GPU doesn't really say that much) that that system should cost 2100 dollars... Edit: the system in my signature (better than what you've said so far most likely) cost about 1100 dollars (I built it myself)...
  10. Wow! Looks (sounds?) awesome so far. Just one question, what types of sounds will this be adding/replacing? Will it just be environmental sounds or also aircraft sounds?
  11. And Michael has not been online even in over a month...
  12. Wasn't it an illegal conversion from FSX? And Carenado aircraft, and the Cessna Corvalis... Also the x737 and Cessna 172 Wide Panel
  13. Awesome news! Will they be enabled no matter the shadow setting, or will a certain shadow setting be required to display these?
  14. Sorry about the size, these are the same screenshots as I posted on the .org where they have a size limit so I had to make them a lot smaller...
  15. I think deleting your preferences will do the same thing (but what Flying_Pig said will work too).
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