I use an FPS cap at all times. Happens to help with this issue.
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PT6A posted:I think this is pretty positive news, but watching it is going to reveal a lot about Asobo and what we can expect in the future. If this integration goes well and is productive, I think we can be very enthusiastic about future potential with other groups as well. If not, I don't think it represents a huge loss over what we have now, but definitely a huge loss over what might have been. I'm actually part of this team (not the core developers) but I'll give a quick rundown of what's actually happening. - Working Title is made up of about 15 members, all volunteers (until recently). Some are real-world pilots (like myself), some are software engineers, and others are just enthusiasts. - The 5 core members, the founders, the software engineers, developers, coders, whatever you want to refer to them as, basically formed an LLC. - Microsoft (not Asobo) has contracted them to develop content for the base sim based on the work they have done with the CJ4, Garmins and their own SDK. They will be working closely with Asobo and other partners but not for them. What Microsoft and Asobo are most interested in are much of the core systems of these mods such as the flight plan manager, VNAV, chart integration and so on. The goal is for Working Title to develop out these systems, along with a few others, and the SDK, to slowly bring into the base game of MSFS. Microsoft wants to provide base users with a better experience while also providing a more robust and complete platform for third-party developers to more easily integrate complex avionics systems into their products. Carenado is often used because while their visuals are fantastic, and flight models ok, their avionics are quite often poor, at least the more complex systems. They don't have a specialized person on their team versed in the technical aspects of core avionics development like Working Title has so, the end goal is to provide companies like them with easier access to a develop a more complete product. - The CJ4 and all the other mods will continue to be developed and open source for now. That said, down the road, some of the development may have to go into a closed group because now we're dealing with base simulation, beta versions and all that stuff that requires NDAs. This however, will not prevent anyone from doing exactly like they have, forking a branch from the github or starting their own CJ4 enhancement development. As far as I understand it, they will never become "premium products" or be encrypted. - The integration into the sim will probably be a slow process at first that will take some time while they get all set up and integrated into the development team. Not all of the features found in the current version of some of the mods will be able to be brought into the core simulation for a number of reasons. Anything that is brought into the base game will obviously at the mercy of Microsoft but they seemed pretty open to what they're doing so far. - The rest of the team, everyone but the 5 actual employees, will stay on and keep doing what we do, contributing in small ways and testing. They are really serious about keeping things the way they are but also have expressed a desire to subcontract anyone who is interested in future work on projects and paying them for their contributions, which is cool. In the end, this only serves to benefit the greater community and developers alike as their work has proven to be top notch. They're a really dedicated and highly talented group of individuals and they're very excited to be able to access the core of the simulation and get paid for doing what they really love. i am kiss u now fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Mar 11, 2021 |
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Goons are everywhere.
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# ? Mar 11, 2021 20:58 |
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i am kiss u now posted:I'm actually part of this team (not the core developers) but I'll give a quick rundown of what's actually happening. No, i am kiss u now.
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# ? Mar 11, 2021 22:51 |
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I am excited to have avionics APIs that Just Work for the modders who do not understand avionics like Carenado, and Asobo.
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# ? Mar 11, 2021 23:15 |
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I got a line on a new video card! Next step...getting a throttle quadrant.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 21:11 |
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I presume the Logitech X56 needs their driver installed to be fully functional?
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 21:50 |
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So I got this email from Honeycomb:quote:Hello everyone, So while it seems like the flight sim hardware craze is dying out, Honeycomb's stuff is going to be in low numbers so probably hard to get.
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 04:05 |
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I got that email too and its disappointing but not at all surprising. There was a bloomberg article recently about how covid really hosed up supply chains, production, microchip shortages etc. Basically everything its being effected by the hard shutdown that many countries had to go through including and specifically China. Things like video game console shortages are expected to exist through this coming holiday season. It really sucks. I've been basically unable to play Flight Sim since launch outside of at 15fps because I haven't been able to get even get a chance to buy a video card since September. Multiple times I've had them in my cart but then I timeout or they sellout. Hoping I get lucky with a throttle quadrant when they resupply.
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 07:22 |
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Honeycomb Alpha Yoke in Stock at XPlane.org Store FWIW, I got mine from the ORG store last year when it randomly came in stock. Shipping was pretty quick too.
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 18:23 |
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I got mine from Gulf Coast Avionics on eBay. Totally worth it, IMHO. And the logitech throttle quadrants are fine for the time being.
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 18:33 |
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Just a quick FYI too, though, that the honeycomb stuff has switches that are “always on” which currently creates a bug in MSFS where you can only adjust autopilot knobs by 10 for heading and 1000 for altitude. There are workarounds but ultimately Asobo has said they need a fix (which they have ready, allegedly) but keep delaying it. It’s tough because while it’s not a game breaking bug, it’s annoying to take my flights from “several times a week” to “eh maybe I’ll fly today.” My perfect zen garden of a sim must not have any imperfections. That said that’s about the only consolation I can give anyone hunting for honeycomb stuff as a downside - I’m super thrilled with both the alpha and bravo even though moving from a Rhino HOTAS I’ve had to more or less relearn how to fly smoothly.
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 20:13 |
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Do you guys think a warthog hotas will ever sell for msrp again? Has it become a mythical lost price from the before times
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Anime Store Adventure posted:Just a quick FYI too, though, that the honeycomb stuff has switches that are “always on” which currently creates a bug in MSFS where you can only adjust autopilot knobs by 10 for heading and 1000 for altitude. Is that a bug with the Honeycomb though? I know with the TBM, it's just like "gently caress you, heading in increments of 10" and with the Baron, it seems to be perfectly fine to adjust one degree at a time using the mousewheel. It's a mixed blessing because gently caress me does it take forever to rotate the heading bug through 180 degrees, and you'll zoom absurdly far out 17 times in the process. And speaking of "workarounds for flawed peripherals and/or simulators", to use the logitech throttle quadrants and have reverse thrust, what you must do is map the "click backward" (it functions as a button) to "decrease throttle". It's not perfect but it's probably the best you'll get.
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No Mods No Masters posted:Do you guys think a warthog hotas will ever sell for msrp again? Has it become a mythical lost price from the before times Yeah it will. Just recently someone I know gt the hotas in Italy for 400 euros, so the shortages vary from countries. I’m sure this time next year it’s more or less same.
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PT6A posted:Is that a bug with the Honeycomb though? I know with the TBM, it's just like "gently caress you, heading in increments of 10" and with the Baron, it seems to be perfectly fine to adjust one degree at a time using the mousewheel. It's a mixed blessing because gently caress me does it take forever to rotate the heading bug through 180 degrees, and you'll zoom absurdly far out 17 times in the process. I think it’s not specific to the honeycomb but any peripherals that use that same sort of control where it’s always “held” or whatever. I saw some posts reporting it with I think the new Thrustmaster stuff? I forget.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I think it’s not specific to the honeycomb but any peripherals that use that same sort of control where it’s always “held” or whatever. I saw some posts reporting it with I think the new Thrustmaster stuff? I forget. In regards to the autopilot setting, which is what I assume you're talking about, my question is: does it depend on the aircraft? Because different aircraft, even among the default set, behave differently regardless of whether you're using a peripheral or not.
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PT6A posted:In regards to the autopilot setting, which is what I assume you're talking about, my question is: does it depend on the aircraft? Because different aircraft, even among the default set, behave differently regardless of whether you're using a peripheral or not. Maybe? I do know it’s not just different autopilot behavior, and is a bug, but I’m not sure if it hits every plane the same way. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/heading-increment-bug-10-degree-instead-of-1-explained/290173/311
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# ? Mar 14, 2021 07:09 |
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The Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Edition has button 17 on the very bottom of the throttle axis that stays "pushed" when the throttle is at zero. It was intended to be a reverse thrust activation button, but there's not really a great way to set it up like that currently. So that can cause this increment bug as well. On mine, there's no detent, so it's really hard to tell when you're in that reverse section of the throttle. So when I land, I pull the throttle on the stick to idle, and then just hold F2 on my keyboard to activate reverse thrust.
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# ? Mar 14, 2021 16:04 |
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Not sure if it's been posted before but if you want to learn the A320 and especially the FBW mod this guy does some great tutorials: https://youtube.com/user/filanjix I went from knowing nothing about the Airbus to flying like an expert in just a few videos.
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# ? Mar 14, 2021 22:27 |
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I'm sure glad that the latest update turns the game into a diashow for absolutely no reason, at random times for an extended period.
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# ? Mar 16, 2021 18:42 |
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Everyone: hey it'd be swell if the GPSs worked properly for IFR flight. Asobo: Here's some scenery for England!
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# ? Mar 16, 2021 23:01 |
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Given IFR flight and learning all the wacky rules for proper flying was like 99% of the draw for me it kind of sucks to keep checking this thread and seeing that stuff be continuously more broken.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 01:37 |
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Meanwhile, I've been flying the FlyByWire A320 Neo and it's been fine?
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Zero One posted:Not sure if it's been posted before but if you want to learn the A320 and especially the FBW mod this guy does some great tutorials: https://youtube.com/user/filanjix
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Wolfy posted:I can basically fly a real airbus now, right? Yes. Just don't say you learned it from that guy. Merv Burger posted:Meanwhile, I've been flying the FlyByWire A320 Neo and it's been fine? Yeah the FBW has been a lot of fun for me recently. Even with the sometimes (most times) bad ATC in the game you can still use the mod to fix most other issues. I just wish they could do one for the 787. I love that big bird but the in game version is so simple compared to the FBW. Looks like the mod for that plane died because it's an encrypted file in the game. Very sad. They are working on a A380. I hope they can add the A321 and A350 eventually too. Zero One fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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They should just decrypt the extra planes. It's not like local copy protection ever stopped anyone. You already have to sign in to a Microsoft account so just tie access to your account.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 05:35 |
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Yeah, some FBW 787 would be nice. Then again, the sole reason I keep flying it over the A320 is because I think the Airbus cockpits look pretty terrible. At least the A320 one, the A380 is somewhere in between. The teal certainly doesn't help. As far as IFR and FBW goes, they've been implementing their own version of various game supplied functionality. It probably works better because of that. And regarding the A380, I sure hope that teaser on Twitter wasn't just blowing their load too early, because on their Discord, you don't get any info or even loose timeframe, other than "when it's ready".
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 06:49 |
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Say what you want about the cockpit, the plane works.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 07:00 |
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Wolfy posted:Say what you want about the cockpit, the plane works. better to die beautifully than live boringly ugly.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 09:33 |
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Zero One posted:Yeah the FBW has been a lot of fun for me recently. Even with the sometimes (most times) bad ATC in the game you can still use the mod to fix most other issues. I know that Project Mega Pack (the people that make a ton of free liveries,) has a freeware A321 available. I don't know how well it interacts with the FBW 320 Neo, though. They also have a freeware A330 available and there's a mod that makes the FBW A320 Neo work with it.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Yeah, some FBW 787 would be nice. Then again, the sole reason I keep flying it over the A320 is because I think the Airbus cockpits look pretty terrible. At least the A320 one, the A380 is somewhere in between. The teal certainly doesn't help. I'd love an FBW 787! That plane is the reason I got the deluxe version and I'm so dissapointed in it. The cockpit looks absolutely fantastic though, it's a really nice place to be.Some people have made custom cockpit textures for the A320 though, there's a nice black/beige one that I've been enjoying. It really does make the Airbus cockpit a much more pleasant environment to be in. It's of course not realistic but I don't really care. FBW also redid the cockpit textures, at least in the dev version, but I'm not a big fan of what they did. They added things like baked in shadows (I guess to simulate ambient occlusion?) and it just looks awful, way too exagerated. Also they bumped up the normal mapping on a bunch of textures and it's starting to remind me of older X-Plane cockpits now where you had to cheat things like that to get around the engine limitations. PBR textures should not have drawn in light shading/shadows nowadays anyway, the engine takes care of that and it looks "off" if the light isn't just right.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 15:43 |
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I kinda dig the utilitarian a320 look. Would like a version where the das is greener, like those old teal soviet planes
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 15:50 |
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Merv Burger posted:I know that Project Mega Pack (the people that make a ton of free liveries,) has a freeware A321 available. I don't know how well it interacts with the FBW 320 Neo, though. The 321 is just the FSX model with the 320 Neo cockpit. It is incompatible with the FBW*. The 330 release on Discord says the same. I appreciate them adding planes to the game but it's not at the same level. Also they seem to have stopped updating the mega pack? The last release was months ago and many liveries don't work anymore. *The FBW folks are working on splitting their version into a separate aircraft in the game so hopefully in the future you can have both. Steadiman posted:I'd love an FBW 787! That plane is the reason I got the deluxe version and I'm so dissapointed in it. The cockpit looks absolutely fantastic though, it's a really nice place to be.Some people have made custom cockpit textures for the A320 though, there's a nice black/beige one that I've been enjoying. It really does make the Airbus cockpit a much more pleasant environment to be in. It's of course not realistic but I don't really care. I saw on the FBW Discord they are still tweaking the textures. Zero One fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Aerosoft CRJ is out for FS2020 if anyone wants to simulate that they’re on excruciatingly uncomfortable regional flights! https://www.aerosoft.com/en/microsoft-flight-simulator/msfs-aircraft/3303/aerosoft-aircraft-crj-550/700
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Zero One posted:I saw on the FBW Discord they are still tweaking the textures. Yeah I figured they would be, it's an amazing project with some insanely talented people working on it. Can't wait for the A380!
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 16:09 |
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I've warmed up to Airbus cockpits a lot because the series seems to have a coherent and consistent human interaction philosophy. For a beast as complex as a commercial airliner its flight deck is remarkably simple and intuitive. Boeings seem to have controls clustered around like haphazard tumors by comparison and their whole flow seems quite strange to me in general. Then again I'm not a pilot so what do I know. I suppose Boeing people probably turn their nose up at all the Rotate Law, Flare Law, Normal law, reversionary modes etc that sit between the side stick and the control surfaces constantly changing around on you.
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# ? Mar 17, 2021 18:02 |
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They were clearly more interested in making a visually impressive game than one that actually simulates planes. Like, there's heat blur from turbine exhaust, and you can see the sunset reflecting off the wing just so as you look out to the side, but the GPS is like "missed approach??? how about gently caress YOU!" There's so much incredible attention to detail in so many aspects that it makes the shortcomings seem especially weird, not unlike uncanny valley.
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# ? Mar 18, 2021 00:14 |
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I don't think it's a case of them not wanting to make a great simulator, more that the people there likely know how to do the heat blur and the reflections, but they weren't experts on the intricacies of how the glass cockpit of a 747 works. So they made a game that looks great and they are still working on the simulation of everything in the plane part.
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I’ll never forget the “oh no” moment I had when I loaded up my first flight in a 172 and immediately realized mixture was not simulated correctly. It took me a few weeks to get over the short comings and enjoy it for what it is.
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