X-Plane 12
Release of X-Plane 12.2.0
Please find the full release notes here.
NEW | Skyline Simulations DLCs - out now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2970670/XPlane_12_Addon_Skyline_Simulations__Billy_Bishop_Toronto_City_Airport/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2970650/XPlane_12_Addon_Skyline_Simulations__Long_Beach_Airport/
Release of X-Plane 12.1.4
Full release notes can be found here.
NEW | Aerosoft - Airport Greater Moncton International
Airport Greater Moncton International is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement (revised static aircrafts)
NEW | Aerosoft - Airport Melilla
Airport Melilla is now also available on Steam for X-Plane 12.
Feature:
- Detailed recreation of the real Melilla Airport (IATA: MLN, ICAO: GEML)
- Military heliport (GEHM) and Islas Chafarinas Isabel (XGEI2)
- 4K PBR textures for objects and ground
- High-resolution custom colored orthophoto
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- 3D trees & grass
- New custom Mesh for the airport area
- Optimized for great performance and visual results
XP12-Updates of Society Islands XP
First of all, we’d like to announce that we started to gradually implement all the new cool features that X-Plane 12 has brought with it. Specifically with these updates, we’ve implemented so-called “weather maps” for (almost) all of the materials we’ve developed for the scenery. In less technical terms: Be careful, from now on it will get really wet as soon as it starts to rain (or has rained):
X-Plane 12 also allowed us to implement some ideas that were previously impossible (or only difficult) to implement, such as animated waterfalls and a custom soundscape. On the other hand, newest versions of XP12 also required us to update a few things, such as improving atoll and reef textures, and optimizing the lighting for the overlay scenery i.e. autogen – and, we’re finally able to get rid of an annoying bug related to vegetation, known to some of you as the “glowing effect”:
Speaking of vegetation, yes, it’s still 2d for the large rainforests, and only 3d around POIs like airports and helipads. There are a few reasons for this decision, but to cut a long story short, we didn’t want our ongoing work on full-3d-vegetation to delay these updates. Especially we wanted it to not delay stuff much more important for a pilot, such as e.g. a new and exciting helipad at the Conrad Bora Bora Nui resort (fictional ICAO code XHNTTC, part of Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP).
As you can see, there is so much to report. And there would be even more to talk about, but today’s blog entry is getting longer and longer. I’d say let’s keep it short now: Here is the full changelog for both scenery packs to give you a quick overview, as well as a selection of a few more snapshots:
changelog for Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP v1.2
as well as for Tahiti & Windward Islands XP v1.1:
- updated ground textures, added “wet effects”
- updated nav aid/approach lighting of airports
- revised night lighting of the autogen scenery
- added waterfalls feat. custom particle effects
- added custom soundscape (requires LST plugin)
- implemented XP12 default ambient soundscape
- fixed the “glowing effect” of 2d vegetation
- various, minor fixes and updates to Overlays
- adjusted soil textures roughness/specularity
- adjusted reef and border textures for XP12.1+
- minor fixes on terrain and bathymetry model
in addition for Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP v1.2:
- new “floating” helipad at Conrad Bora Bora Nui
- updated ports and marinas with new art assets
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437034/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Society_Islands_XP__Tahiti__Windward_Islands/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259163/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Society_Islands_XP__Bora_Bora__Leeward_Islands/
Version 1.2 of Svalbard XP is out now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437033/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Svalbard_XP/
NEW | Aerosoft - Airport Zagreb
Airport Zagreb is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps (new decals for more detailed asphalt and concrete)
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement (revised static aircrafts)
NEW | FSDG DLCs - out now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969910/XPlane_12_Addon_FSDG__Hurghada/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969900/XPlane_12_Addon_FSDG__Teruel/
NEW | Aerosoft - Airport Kassel
Airport Kassel is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- New, additional orthophoto for the immediate vicinity of the airport (60cm/pixel)
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement
- Revised static aircrafts
- New XP12 Custom Mesh from Maps2Xplane (incl. Ortho4XP patch)