Krycztij Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 … just doing a little uphill race with my F-22 and my Shilka. Ordinary routine, you know … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I'm at the Signature Flight Services ramp at KMOB (Mobile Regional Airport, Alabama) preparing to take this beautiful, very recently overhauled, Piper PA-31-310 back to Fort Lauderdale Executive (KFXE). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted October 23, 2015 Author Share Posted October 23, 2015 Just got TAW's moving map working … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 GPS moving map, what an awesome navigational aid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 Yes, it's incredibly helpful in so many situations (mostly "Fuel leak; dammit, where's the closest airfield?!" ) Using civilian planes for air refuel training: I guess I won't ever be able to do that without an autopilot, let alone with keyboard controls … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Very helpful for a fuel leak, or for poor fuel planning and management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 The next TFXplorer release will support flying the F-22 not only in ADF & TAW levels, but also in EF2000 v2’s Norway: Cockpit graphics are much worse than TAW’s due to EF2000’s lack of an F-22 cockpit model, but I hope I can one day use TAW’s model directly in EF2000’s levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Rush Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 My latest skin for the F-35 VF-178 "The Pride" off USS Ten Bears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted June 24, 2016 Author Share Posted June 24, 2016 Looking great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 I just broke my landing gear during aerodynamic breaking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted October 5, 2017 Author Share Posted October 5, 2017 I finally managed to take a video of TFXplorer: Now that I’ve learned it, more will follow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Wonderful!...and in hi-rez too. Is that the same version I have, or have you implemented an auto-throttle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted October 6, 2017 Author Share Posted October 6, 2017 Yes, recording was PITA – requires the correct program, display resolution, recording format. Now, finally, 1080p, 60 Hz. It’s your version. There shouldn’t be a difference to the official build either I was just really careful on the throttle. Reading my text eight posts above, it only took me two years to figure it out Edit: Very annoying how YouTube mis-identifies the game as EF2000. It tells me I could change that in the options, and I already did this twice after upload, but it displays EF2000 nontheless (probably because TFXplorer is no registered game title). The culling video was identified as Minecraft, now it’s EF2000 as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrKevDog Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Yep, nice video and a pretty good display of your flying skills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted October 9, 2017 Author Share Posted October 9, 2017 Footage of the new contrail rendering. Contrails challenging because lots of data (particles!) is generated in many places all the time contrails are visible before the actual planes enter range of sight, and that’s a conceptual problem in the LOD system Bonus: with D3D 9 and Windows XP, there is no geometry shader to exploit GPU particle magic I plan to use the system for dust trails, smoke trails, and explosions as well. It’ll be available through the plane API. It’s such a pretty sight! But there are other priorities right now, so it’ll take a while for the contrails to find their way into an official build … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 All sorts of awesomeness with that video. Luckily, atmospheric conditions were conducive to contrail formation at a wide range of altitudes during filming Are you flying the contrail making plane, or is it AI and Smartview? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted October 10, 2017 Author Share Posted October 10, 2017 It’s me, sadly. As a bystander, my camera work would have been *much* better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted October 19, 2017 Author Share Posted October 19, 2017 On 9/12/2017 at 5:25 PM, Krycztij said: I just broke my landing gear during aerodynamic breaking: Finally found a tool to make a video of it: … but I feel like the video quality dropped off noticeably. Also, the belly landing physics need a rewrite and sound effects are missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Nice video. I might have to start paying attention to the instruments until we get autoland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 Sorry for the long pause … real life had caught up. Small update: Note the temperature/humidity in the bottom left corner (the display can be changed to degrees Fahrenheit, but I forgot to do it for the video; sorry!) – I had to add this to make contrail simulation to some degree realistic. So here’s dynamic contrails in action for the first time. They’re not pretty, but managing them is the greater challenge and I think I finally made it The video could use "fix camera on target" and HUD reacting to other planes, but that’s for another day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Beauty contrails! I love contrails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 Thanks! Some background information: The contrail model takes into account temperature and humidity in the atmosphere. These are based on altitude and on time of day – contrails are longer early in the morning when air is humid and shorter in the afternoon when air is dry. For testing purposes, I have even simulated ground-level contrails in very cold environment, like here. So if we one day expand the game to Siberia, we’re good to go. In other aspects, the temperature/humidity are modeled uniform for the whole map – that’s why the contrails are so regular in intensity and look so boring. I’ll add local fluctuations when I get to programming clouds – it’ll look much more interesting then. However, the actual amount of water amount emitted by the engine is just a guess for now. I tried to compute it from thrust, but it turned out too complicated. Maybe I’ll resume later. An upcoming version will also take exhaust temperature into account (currently, fade-in is programmed by hand for each plane). This also makes it easier to add realistic infrared views because the temperature data is already in place. I planned an actual fluid simulation for wake turbulence on the contrails, but it turned out so complicated I abandoned it. Now, turbulence is programmed by hand for each plane. The same system will be used for smoke trails and wingtip vortex trails. Logistics for that feature are incredibly complex: A plane produces several thousands of particles per second, each less than a meter in diameter. These grow to several meters in seconds. Overlaps need to be removed and several optimization passes are run over the lists to compress straight segments and to get it to renderable size. The segments need to be cut into pieces so they can be culled on rendering. There are several hundred contrails in sight (a few dozen airplanes with two or four contrails each), and the processor need adds up rapidly. I had much more beautiful particles in place some years ago, but without the complex optimization system mentioned above, they quickly overloaded the computer even for a single plane. (That’s what I meant with “management is the harder challenge than beauty”.) I’ll transfer the beautiful rendering some time later; gameplay is currently more important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Wonderful! Even the 1997 ADF terrain looks good with that airshow going on above it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycztij Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 Yes, it’s already worth the effort: 95 % done, 5 % to go. These are usually the hardest … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 On 10/10/2017 at 8:14 PM, mikew said: Are you flying the contrail making plane, or is it AI and Smartview? Just repeating my earlier question... In software development, that last 5% takes 95% of the project time. That's a fundamental rule that can't be broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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