Prepar3D v2.0 Developer Blog – DirectX11 - Discussion Thread

WBard · Post by **WBard** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:18 pm

Hello LM team,

One simple question: Did you fix the SimConnect_WeatherRequestCloudState function?

Regards,

JL

Xflyboy · Post by **Xflyboy** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:29 pm

WOW, this is incredible!

Are All screens with default scenery?

I WANT IT NOW!

WBard · Post by **WBard** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:35 pm

While we are partnering with many add on developers, we'll let them share their screenshots when they are allowed and fully support Prepar3D v2.0.

All of the shots in the developer blog were stock out of the box, default scenery and our current default vehicle library, yes sir.

Xflyboy · Post by **Xflyboy** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:43 pm

Hat's off guys!

I'm still in shock from just this little preview, I can finally shelf FSX with the rest of them

Will the bloom effect be adjustable?

simmerhead · Post by **simmerhead** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:13 pm

WOW! Finally Prepar3D has taken a leap away from ESP 1.0. This looks amazing guys. Thank you for all your hard work. We're one lucky bunch of aviators to have this tool at our disposal!

gandy · Post by **gandy** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:16 pm

A big thanks to all the Prepar3d team for the work they have done, also a big thanks for the update on v2, its looking sweet and i love that fog.

I can see my self doing a lot of low vis landing with that

Paul

Mitritch · Post by **Mitritch** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:18 pm

Fantastic news!

My wallet is ready...

Saul · Post by **Saul** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:18 pm

Great work. It looks amazing. Well done P3D Team.

Darkstarf16 · Post by **Darkstarf16** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:23 pm

Brilliant work team... And thank you for the update

wow

richard99 · Post by **richard99** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:29 pm

Awesome news indeed, i cannot believe it, my eyes cannot believe it.

How much desidered would be running this new era of flight simulation with the best aircraft addons never developed (I referred to PMDG ones)... Unortunately simple a dream...

Anyway a big thank you for your huge effort to give us a new flight simulation.

Bye.

Hightower · Post by **Hightower** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:45 pm

Wow! Just awesome. First, thank you for the update. Great to have official news rather than the speculation thats around.

The volumetric fog looks phenomenal. Is this partly due to a revamped weather engine? You mean no more wind and pressure shifts?

What kind of performance are you getting from say above average hardware? (not top of the line stuff, but decent)

Was anything done to the ATC, with more realistic vectoring and recognition of STARs and SIDs?

Sorry for all the questions, but the excitement just spilled over. I requested to be a beta tester, but never got a reply, so this will have to suffice.

Evans · Post by **Evans** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:52 pm

Very nicely done development team!

Ready to purchase.

simmerhead · Post by **simmerhead** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:00 pm

I'd be really interested in hearing about the weather engine as well. Anything you could share?

Realistic weather is to me one of the most important features in a simulator since it is the place to try out some challenging scenarious that you'll hopefully never encounter in real life. (e.g. severe icing, dense fog, extreme turbulence, downdrafts, microbursts...).

malibu43 · Post by **malibu43** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:05 pm

I'd love to get some insight into performance. For example: If one dials in the graphics for the same level of "eye candy" he currently has in FSX, would he expect to get better performance than FSX? Or, the other way around, would someone expect to get the same level of performance (fps) for a given FSX setup, but with a higher level of "eye candy"?

Mazo43 · Post by **Mazo43** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:53 pm

To echo many others already - WOW!! This has exceeded what I could have hoped for - just breathtaking!

Congratulations to the LM Prepar3d Team for all of their hard work! And also a huge Thank You for listening to the FS community and implementing so many great changes.

I will be purchasing and downloading P3D V2.0 as soon as it is released!

Lyn