Ben Supnik, X-Plane developer would like to inform you about the following …. This came up multiple times in the comment section, and is probably important enough for its own post: how are conflicts resolved between user-submitted airport buildings (via the lego bricks and Robin’s database) and custom scenery? The answer is two-fold: Scenery pack...

Good news … X-Plane 10.21 beta 1 is here – since this is the first beta of 10.21, you have to run the updater by hand and check “get betas” to see it. This will be the only 10.21 beta, so please go try it now.  Give it a quick once-over if you make custom scenery or a custom airplane. We’ve tried to put in a whole pile of low-risk bug fixes, but...

Ben Supnik’s story deals this time with “If It’s Not Blue, You Know What To Do.” First, please read these posts regarding OSM water and recuts.  I’ll be here when you’re done. Okay good! So the short version of it is that there are three reasons* why water might be missing from the global scenery: Our OSM data importer had a bug.  What...

Ben Supnik, X-Plane developer would like to inform you about I some DSF basics. According to Ben; I have a lot to blog about this week, but before I can get into any of it, let me describe the process of recutting DSFs. Alpilotx and I are now working on DSF recuts.  The recuts will incorporate a few important changes: Bug fixes to the OSM import code.  Some...

Oops, a couple of days too late, but it’s never too late! Ben Supnik has some interesting X-Plane information for you. I have a bunch of stuff to post about in detail, so let me first clear out the “what’s going on” category. I’m not actually going to law school, and we’re not canceling X-Plane to become a non-practicing entity.  That was an...