Helgoland now also for X-Plane 12, the recreation of Germany’s only island in the open sea at a high level of detail and with many thrilling new options.
New in the XP12 version:
Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
Revised lighting
Ground now includes PBR reflections
Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version
Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no additional add-ons or plugins
Adaptation of the animated wind turbines to XP12 (animation also without SAM plugin if not installed)
New, fully XP12 compliant mesh including soundscape, seasons and 3D waves
Based on the latest image sources, highly detailed objects were created at and along the airport. In addition, the villages La Mole and Le Moulin Roux were upgraded with individual autogen. The photo texture covers an area of approx. 26km² and thus covers the entire traffic pattern.
New in the XP12 version:
Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
Revised lighting
Ground textures now with PBR reflections and normal maps
Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
Revised 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 additional add-ons or plugins
The Airport Zurich (previously Zurich-Kloten) is the largest airport of Switzerland, now in a brand new version for X-Plane. This completely new scenery is full of details, including every building and the entire airport environment, De-Icing and all features you would expect from a modern X-Plane scenery.
New in XP12 version:
Revised custom mesh (including Ortho4xp patch)
Revised orthophoto including summer, autumn, and winter versions and normal map
XP12 3D vegetation for trees and bushes
Volumetric grass and flowers
Ground reworker including aerial photo-based dirt map
Weather effects for wetness, ice, and snow on the ground (XP12 native)
Full support for seasons (XP12 native, no additional add-ons required)
Revised lighting
Additional static cars in the parking lots
Corrected roads and autogen buildings around the airport
NEW | Society Islands XP - Tahiti & Windward Islands
Welcome to Tahiti and the Windward Islands, the eastern part of the Society Islands in the South Pacific. Arrive with an airliner (up to Boeing 747 and Airbus A380) at Faa'a International Airport and go island hopping with a smaller aircraft, or test your skills as a medical air pilot. Explore stunning atolls, sandy beaches and mountainous islands covered by tropical forests, or service the hospitals on Moorea and Tahiti.
Features:
Detailed terrain mesh with photo-realistic textures for the landscape and the sea
Custom overlay with dense tropical vegetation and country-typical autogen-buildings
Hundreds of custom buildings and objects including PBR textures and night textures
Implementation of the Scenery Animation Manager (SAM), e.g. animated Marshallers
Coverage: Tahiti and all the Windward Islands in the Society Islands archipelago
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12.0.9-rc-5
12.0.9 comes with bug fixes and a global scenery update! We’ve re-rendered the scenery with slight improvements. Including slightly higher and more accurate mesh fidelity, new autogen/forestry updates and flattening issues with some airports. Users will be notified in the sim main menu if a scenery update is available to download.
12.0.9 release notes:
XPD-14995 - Missing scenery popup when flying over Red Sea east of Samara (+15+41)
XPD-14979 - Crash on ex-vis if main menu is enabled and scenery is not up to date
XPD-14980 - X-Plane immediately crashes on startup when launched through the installer on Windows
XPD-14967 - Linux: Launching Installer via a sim action freezes the main sim window
XPD-14928 - F14 AoA indexer does not indicate "on speed" AoA unless the hook is down
XPD-14897 - Missing some objects from the default library (ground markings, fire extinguishers, fuel-related OBJs)
XPD-14899 - Prevent crashes for ATC background tasks running before the airport has loaded.
XPD-14529 - Bug report "Save flight / Load flight situation in XP12." New changes should help reduce replay-related CTD issues.
Fix Crash when dismissing scenery update notification outside of the main menu
New command added to “dump scenery test fixture” to log (Under Developer menu)
12.0.9-rc-5 adds Support for the soon to be released Control Pad app (IOS).
12.0.8-rc-3 goes final!
Another Beta run comes to an end! 12.0.8-rc-3 ships with months' worth of Beta testing, bug fixes, and new features! Thanks for all the feedback along the way!
XPD-14353: Add dataref to allow plugins to disable autotune. Requires XPLM branch feat_XPD-14353_Disable_autotune
XPD-13882: Fix flows changing too rapidly
XPD-14343: Disable dev_assert which can happen if the pilot's being arsey
XPD-14143 + XPD-14169: ATC dialog and autotune were resetting COM1 active when COM2 tx had been selected.
XPD-14316: Various problems with controller handoff being ignored.
XPD-14246: Fix discrepancy between flight model and ATC ISA altitude
XPD-14239: Radio calls used correct indicated altitude even if altimeter setting was wrong
XPD-14193: Request diversion mentions the previous destination
XPD-14192: Ensure the AI closes
all* aircraft doors, not just the ones it would have opened itself, when service completed.
XPD-14190: Don't continually regenerate fake flows except at load time - if the flows are unusable, this never stops.
XPD-14189: LSO left/right commands were reversed
XPD-14539 - Crash when routing AI under rare conditions
X-Plane 12.0.8-rc-3
XPD-14827 - GPU Volts not set to zero when ground services terminated
Fix setting of target RakNet port when selecting hosts in the network settings UI: - When using a non-default receiving port, the host could not be selected from drop-down menus on other PCs in the network - they would just copy the address of the host as if it was manually entered and use wrong (default) RakNet port.The problem was in set_beacon_to_use(), it needs to set raknet port to that of received beacon, otherwise get_beacon_to_use() will not match usage for any beacons.
Replay backwards compat fixes: - During the V12.0.8 beta and RC run, some unplanned changes to the replay file format slipped through. This makes previous 12.0.8 versions incapable of correctly loading replay or situation files saved by previous versions of the simulator, and vice versa. This is now fixed. - Loading situation or replay files saved at a custom airport would fail to load on a simulator setup without that scenery, this is now fixed.
X-Plane 12.0.8-rc-2
<*>XPD-14808 - Crash when destroying the aircraft_grid_widget and the full size render icon has been purged. <*>XPD-14806 - Crash when checking for available readback command when not tuned to a valid controller. <*>XPD-14800 - External visuals go into infinite loading loop. <*>XPD-14809 - The list of XP instances in the network for existing IP entries is wrong if new host shows up. <*>XPD-14833 - Icing effect doesn’t properly work without thermal textures. <*>XPD-14810 - Memory leak in telemetry system. <*>XPD-14791 - “Reset UDP ports” button leaves inet init error displayed with updated port. <*>XPD-14643 - Mouse wheel scrolling fails at right side of screen with FSR.
X-Plane 12.0.8-rc-1
XPD-14787 - Assertion failed when landing or loading Skyhawk float plane on solid ground.
XPD-14786 - Crash when popping up ATC window at EGPR.
XPD-14779 - Tons of PNG iCCP warnings with zibo & 12.0.8-beta2.
XPD-14775 - Re: Bug report “Complement to my last submission “impossible to push back.........“”.
XPD-14554 - Tips during load don’t rotate anymore.
