JohnMAXX

I think we may have inspired someone:

I see more grit!

Sure do you have a choice of 3 which can be customised. ...

Yeah id have to agree.......

Well done! Well Im not a default cloud fan, but you do well with them

I did get some feedback from people who thought the effect was overdone, with that said here is a SS with the crepuscular rays dialed down a bit.....

That sums it up....some minor changes....going to add a volumetric layer to overcast conditions for one.....then some testing..... I dont like to put a time on anything but hopefully this month....

Im sorry, gotz to keep busy during this lull.....

Im going to leave these here:

My turn with the Saab

MORE GRIT!

Ah OK I see, well this gives me a renewed sense of purpose, thanks for the clarification.....

Quite honestly, there may be no need to reinvent the wheel......This looks fantastic...... To be more clear, no need to update UrbanMAXX....... I remember not that long ago LR wasn't interested in using orthos and was going a different direction with the urban environment. Not even a nod to Maxx-XP and UrbanMAXX for the inspiration....Thanks

There you go......who gave you my clouds....lol

Oh yeah I had nothing to do with textures guys.......Im just excited to see the new approach to urban stuff.....

Im really excited to see what has been done with the urban textures....

I hate to do this to a kid but the plot thickens, back when we were talking he had told me he was 20 something and in college studying politics. Just a bit ago in a PM here he said he was 17 back then..... The basic idea of the PM was he was trying to do better, but he failed to remember what lies he spurted out in our previous conversations...... Additionally he told me he didn't contact Sun-Dog in regards to X-Plane but for FSX a few years ago, I know this to be untrue since me and Sun-Dog had talked about it...... I have no idea if Im talking to a kid, college student or a mother with 6 kids. This is very disturbing, almost pathological..........

Aaron, I am going to be diplomatic concerning this situation but I do feel it is an obligation to air out a few things regarding how you have done business in the past and a few notes on my involvement with you. Recently you started pushing this sky product by providing very few and vague screen shots of your work. Only when I asked you to show more detail did you post more shots. Terrain Europe XP was marketed the same way. You asked for pre-orders and when anyone ever asked you for more screen shots you didn't provide much of anything. You also promised updates and landmarks as part of the product. Recently you did a 180 and decided not to support the product any longer which angered a lot of individuals in the community. In conversation with a friend of mine, from the community, you touted the sucess of your Terrain Europe XP, but here in a public forum you are telling people it wasnt a sucessful product. I think you may have lied to that individual in order to get something out of him..... Additionally you recently reached out to another friend of mine asking for his services to create a product better than UrbanMAXX, this is OK but you were making all kinds of promises as to a "new technique" to place textures and line them up with the roads.....This is all OK, but you were looking for this individual to figure it out, which isnt possible BTW.....Not without code anyway. If you did have this at your disposal why would you need to enlist someone from the community to do the work for you? That seemed very fishy..... And lastly you reached out to Sun-Dog, looking for them to develop another cloud add-on as work with me and Sun-Dog were already underway. And you found out pretty quickly that we were under an agreement. I don't mind that you did this, but again it shows you are trying to exploit the talent around you..... How could two versions of the same product compete? I think you were trying to cut me out, not good..... Another point is you do not even participate in the community, side converations, development threads, not an ounce. You show up out of the blue and try selling stuff with little information and thin content. Becoming a good developer in this community requires you to become a part of the community. Developers need to have a true relationship with the user base. You found out how strong mine is recently and I continue to work hard to maintain this.... Don't underestimate the intelligence of this community, they can see past shifty answers. Always be honest and open with them, especially in the area of how a product works...... Im not telling you what to do, or telling you to ignor the business side, but you should never let business take over, you need to keep a leash on it until you develop a reputation.... Plus a few of these points noted above are why you are having a hard time winning over the community. Frankly it is very painful to watch...... My Involvment With AWG Ok there is some hear say above so let me hash out my involvment with AWG. Aaron contacted me wanting to use UrbanMAXX with his Terrain Europe XP. So we started talking and I said that may work out. During our converations on skype I asked about reporting of sales and Aaron replied that he did not have a way of reporting sales statisitics RED FLAG.. I let that red flag slide and kept in the back of my head that we will just work that out later. During this time I offered him up some custom glacier textures which he put into his terrain europe product. One thing we discussed was a formal announcement of the product and our partnership. A blog post came out showing the glaciers and touting them as a feature in his product, with NO mention of Maxx-XP....RED FLAG I was a bit irrate at this point and after a conversation he added a little something down at the bottom of the blog post.... Around this time a member of a popular X-Plane review site contacted me with some concerns surrounding Aaron, Ill be honest I dont remember the details but it was surrounding his use of OSM and another irrate X-Plane developer. RED RED RED RED FLAG This review site was going to run a piece on AWG but decided to back out because of his reputation......And that was the straw that broke the camels back....I contacted Aaron and said he can have those glaciers and Im out....... Many other details were left out, but these are the facts I remember and this is why you have a hard time around here Aaron....... Dont get angry, really read this and try to take something away from it......But Im afraid you may have already have tarnished your reputaion to the point of no return.....

Hahaha....I know I didn't forget.... That is still on table....

But to clear Tom I don't think we have any major problems here. Just renforcing that sm is a fluid product...

Hey how did you get my clouds in your signature picture?...lol

I agree and I hope to help spark a revolution in development for X-Plane, especially in the scenery department......(Hey developers, see! We told you).....lol

I know that Saab is something else!

We do have a complete product on our hands, an something like this has never been done for X-Plane. With that said LR has been good to me, I asked for normal mapping of ground textures, as an example, and now we have them in UrbanMAXX...... Once this sweeps across the market, hopefully, LR will realize the value and give us more attention. Im sure of it

We are working on it, as you know this stuff takes time..... These issues dont detract from the product overall and they will enhance it in the future in the form of updates.....