Full worlds man. Venus ho!
Well the climb rate in the Bonanza would be better (less gravity) but weāre gonna need something that helps with the acid rain and a better pressurized environment in cabin.
I think Iām going to fire up Flight Simulator on my phone just because I can.
Austin doesnāt believe in it. I canāt remember exactly what he said but it was along the lines of it would lead to too much algorithmically-generated terrain and wouldnāt work. Obviously MSFS has proved him wrong, but Laminar Research can hardly compete with the resources Asobo have at their disposal. Ultimately, I canāt imagine scenery like MSFS ever appearing in a base version of XPlane.
I mean, I totally understand both approaches here. On the flip side, MSFS is light on the hardcore sim aspect in a lot of places. But with time, 3rd party vendors have always filled in the gap for any sim with a lot of players.
I have no issue if thatās what they pursue, Iāll still try it once released and Iām sure there will still be a lot I like. But Iāll also totally enjoy MSFS for everything there that I like, also. Probably more so, to be honest.
I played it a bit on my 12.9-inch iPad earlier and it was pretty impressive, except the game streaming was being really laggy and hitching a lot today. (Halo Infinite had issues as well, despite me having gigabit cable and a low ping.) Still, pretty awesome to play it on my iPad.
That said, though, itās the Xbox version, and (1) MSFS sucks with an Xbox controller, and (2) it not only doesnāt let you use your downloaded scenery, it doesnāt even recognize Marketplace purchases ā none of my add-on planes that show on the real Xbox version were available in the streaming version.
Thatās far more the reason than Austin not believing in it. Heād have to license the data from somewhere, and even though Austinās personally loaded, Laminar doesnāt have that kind of funding available.
They havenāt really implemented them, other than snow. The Bijan seasons add-on does a great job adding fall/winter/spring foiliage, but you have to manually change the seasons. (Easy on PC, kind of a pain on Xbox since you have to buy individual scenes from the Marketplace.
BTW, the Beechcraft Staggerwing is only $14.95 (or free if you take advantage of Bing Rewards like I doā¦) and is well worth it. Beautiful model, fun to fly. Actually made by Caranado so MS is subsidizing it as part of their classics series.
The Bijan payware mod is really nice. The REX versionās really hacky and I wouldnāt recommend that one.
Forget bitcoin mining as a threat to the environment, how about the energy consumed updating MSFS when itās several months out of date?
That aside, has anyone tried out the OpenXR Toolkit for VR? Curious about the upscaling and fixed foveated rendering in particular.
Awesome, @IkeVandergraaf! Congratulations!
Now you can critique flight models and systems with authority.
Thatās an incredible story, @IkeVandergraaf. Delighted for you, congrats on such a major accomplishment!
Thanks everybody! It was a ton of work but felt great!
I think you mentioned before youād like to continue on from here but I guess, any idea what you want to do from here? IFR? Multi? Join a plane share group? Buzz the tower at over 400 knots?
Congrats IkeVandergraaf!
I used to own shorts like that. The first thing that happened after I got married is my wife said āyouāre never wearing these againā.
My comeback to things like that is, āfine, no more capri pants for you then.ā
Since those cancel out, she lets me wear whatever shorts I want.
Yeah I got to get some new shorts.
Iām meeting with a guy from a flying club in deer valley (KDVT) this afternoon. Probably going to join that. Iām also probably going to get my instrument rating. I think itās just safer. Probably do that with the same flight school where I finished out my PPL.
Congrats on the PPL! I took a few lessons at the end of the 90ies (in a Piper PA28 Arrow) and studied for the theoretical, but never went through with it. Iām envious.
I would also have gone on to IFR (a safe choice if you ever find yourself challenged by non VFR conditions).
I hope the meeting at the club goes well and we can get some real pictures (as opposed to screenshots) from the sky in the future.