?Its been noted that Beta 6 will gain back some FPS, so patience will win out with this one. The ortho imagery has been sourced from the Government and has been coloured to integrate with Ortho4XP.
The VStates ortho project has been designed to make adding the content to your simulator as easy as possible, with realistic results. ?Using these tweaks you can gain back some performance that the beta for XP11 is lacking. Scenery developer Vertical Simulations has released VStates Iowa for X-Plane 11 as freeware. ?That said, I’ve had to become accustomed to using DataRef changes (DataRef Editor) and also using FlyWithLUA so i can drop what are called. ?I’ve also had some time with Aerofly FS2 and its quite good in terms of eye candy, right out of the box with no tweaking, however it will be some time before this one is refined. ?P3D will hopefully catch up in 2017 as its expected they will release a 64bit version. ?As an aside, X-Plane out of the box (version 11 beta) is leaps and bounds ahead of (Prepar3D) P3D in terms of visuals and of course also due to being 64-bit. Sale Aerosoft Airbus A318/A319 for FSX & P3D 42.99 30.09 Approximately:CAD 38.30 Sale Aerosoft Airbus A320/A321 for FSX and P3D 42.99 30.09 Approximately:CAD 38. ?More recently, I’ve had the pleasure of using X-Plane for the first time. I’ve spent the better part of several months now tweaking my simulators for use with Oculus Rift + Flyinside (and also having tested the Vive). Tagged clouds, enviroment engine, Skymaxx, Skymaxx pro, weather, x-plane, X-plane 11, xenviro, xp11, xplane | Leave a comment Posted in Addons, Flight Simulators, X-Plane | ?So lets get started… UPDATED now to include a video comparison Continue reading → ?I may also throw in an ASN P3D shot for comparison just for fun. ?I also show a few tweaks that can be done to make even the default look better. ?As it turns out I will probably alternate between SMP and XE for different situations, nothing really wrong with that and more on this later. Why go for X-Plane The scenery that comes with X-Plane is better by miles than the stock P3D scenery and you can get many great freeware airports, meshes and photosce.
?In this article I’ll try to take an objective look at SkyMaxx Pro (SMP) as well as 圎nviro and the default cloud set for XP11 beta 9. Answer (1 of 2): This is a good question to ask and a question asked by many considering buying a realistic flight simulator. ?I still run both P3D and X-Plane 11 (XP11), so in doing this comparison I still have Active Sky Next (ASN) + Active Sky Cloud Art (ASCA) in mind when I try to tweak settings to look as good as possible.
They're both great simulator platforms, but I do really believe Xplane is better.One of the biggest sought after features for X-Plane is that of trying to get a good depiction of weather and clouds, something that P3D ( ActiveSky) users often take for granted. Where I see the most difference is with stall and turbulence physics, with "standard" day to day flying they are pretty similar, especially when comparing with P3D. The basis in which I back up that claim is my own experience with the software, and comparing to real aircraft I've flown. It genuinely does feel a lot more realistic and immersive.
When I finally got around to trying Xplane after all these years, it sold me. I'm not trying to be an xplane fanboy by any means - in fact, when I used to use FSX and P3D a lot I got annoyed by people saying that kind of thing as well. When did I say that FSX or P3D are unrealistic?ĭon't take me wrong. X-plane uses live simulated aerodynamics, P3D uses tables based on the aircraft data.Īustin Myers is a human being, if he was offered a good amount of money he would have sold X-plane to Lockheed Martin in a heartbeat, but Lockheed went and got Microsoft's "unrealistic" simulator. X-plane fans usually say something like that, but have no actual basis to back up the claims of "superior flight physics".
I can't comment on the airliners, but Xplane 11's C172 is pretty much as close as you're gonna get to the real thing, minus an actual full motion sim. The difference in "feel" seems to come from the fact that Xplane uses blade element theory ( ), while fsx and p3d do not.
With a good computer and some free additional software, you can get it looking pretty life like. The flight models and physics are superior, especially if you spring for some of the paid ad on aircraft. Free AirMap is a moving map for Microsoft Flightsimulator (FSX, FS2004), Lockheed Martin Prepar3d (v1.3, v2, v3 ,v4, v5), Laminar Research X-Plane (9, 10, 11. I'm going to say X-Plane 11 without a doubt.