9/10/2023 0 Comments X plane 10 aircraft list![]() Top right: Hospital de Santa Maria (autogen) in X-Plane 12. Top left: Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal. Laminar Research wanted to build on top of what they had, not follow anyone else’s footsteps. In fact, it has improved to a point in which it tries to replicate the shape of some buildings, even if it doesn’t do it in full photogrammetry glory. Yes, it does look better as well, and no it doesn’t look the way some folks out there wish it did.īut it does look better. The sim you (probably) already have in your computer is, indeed, now better with new and improved features. X-Plane 12 is an evolution of X-Plane 11. ![]() You will not be getting a sim so different that your head will spin. Like I said, if you were waiting for a revolution, you are not going to find it. ![]() But if you read my articles, by now you already know that I am not the kind of guy that just throws a yes or no answer.Īnd I do that because I believe that the person that knows better about what you want is you. I know this was a long introduction (ish) and you are probably bored to death when all you wanted was for me to tell you if you should get it or not. But we have listened to that for almost 15 years, every single time a new version of other sims was out or even new sims that meanwhile have disappeared from the market altogether. You could argue that he is “losing the battle” and that Laminar Research will “have customers go away” and “X-Plane will die”. He will be doing what he has been doing for the past 25 years and has brought X-Plane to what it is right now. That means that he is not going to be following Company A or Company B. Despite some changes of plans here and there to cater to what we, as a community and his customers ask for, he usually works so that he sees that vision come to life. Austin has a very clear and defined vision for X-Plane. If you were one of these persons, you should know something about Austin Meyer (the CEO of Laminar Research). We are still going through the open beta period so there’s a lot of work to be done.īut that doesn’t mean we will have a miracle and all of a sudden the sim will have its visuals changed. Laminar Research even built on top of it and added snow, rain, and ice accumulation, which is pretty cool. That is quite an impressive list and a lot of those features, like seasonal effects, have been requested by the community for some time. They were not afraid to break everything and rebuild it. And if you visit the official website, you will find this list:Ī lot of these improvements or new features required Laminar Research to completely redo the code on some components, which is quite impressive. This leads me to think that people didn’t actually bother to understand the work Laminar Research had with the new version of the sim.īut for someone that has been following the progress, that is pretty clear. Yet, a lot of those folks that are saying this is not a truly new version, loved X-Plane 11 and were perfectly happy with the “evolution”. That’s right: X-Plane 12 is much more of an evolution for the sim than X-Plane 11 was. Other than that, X-Plane 11 was much closer to X-Plane 10 than X-Plane 12 is to X-Plane 11. X-Plane 11.00 brought us a brand new (and much-needed) user interface (UI) and X-Plane 11.20 brought us VR. If you have been paying attention to social media, you probably already know it’s not really bringing anything, worth paying attention to, right? After all, a lot of folks are calling it X-Plane 11.60, because it’s, well, just a minor update from X-Plane 11. Having that said, what’s X-Plane 12 all about and what does it bring to the table? So, I am sorry to bring you the bad news: X-Plane 12 is not that type of revolution you may have thought it would be. I see a lot of folks out there feeling very frustrated because, in their minds, for some reason, they imagined X-Plane 12 was going to come out as a completely new, overhauled, “next-gen” (as some call it) simulator that would blow everything else out of the water. It’s not a revolutionary new version of a sim. X-Plane 12 is not a revolutionary new sim. Let’s clear the air right now and get some stuff out of the way. I provide my thoughts and any insights I have – and a lot of unsolicited opinions, but I don’t really do any kind of review with rates, or scores and I don’t intend to start now. And, honestly, I haven’t reviewed a single sim before. In case you’re wondering why I’m just providing my initial thoughts and not a full-blown review, the product has not reached a final version yet. I’ve spent a few days using X-Plane 12 and here are my initial thoughts on it. That’s one of the questions we see popping up a lot on several Facebook groups, forums, and social media.
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