I hate to put time estimates on anything.  The reason: timing is subject to change and always has a ton of uncertainty. What we internally is not a schedule.  A railway has a schedule; we have a plan, a roadmap, or some goals. Betas are full of uncertainty. We don’t know what bugs are in the sim – if we did, beta would be over a lot faster. So: this is my...

The brightness of specular hilights is out of sync between HDR and non-HDR mode in X-Plane 10.11. This wasn’t intentional – it’s a bug.  10.20 will fix this; specualr hilights will have the brightness you see in non-HDR mode (which we think is more like they were supposed to work*) but the tinting of HDR mode (non-HDR mode was overly red in 10.11). I get...

On behafl of Ben Supnik, X-pLane Developer, ASN is proud to announce beta 7 of X-Plane’s 64 bit version. Plugin Developers: you have to link against the libraries you use.  You cannot depend on X-Plane to provide those libraries for you! Historically, due to poorly chosen project settings in X-Plane, X-Plane would “leak” libpng, libfreetype, and (in...

Update: this crash may only be happening to users who have ‘runway follows contours’ off.  I still don’t ever see this on my machines, even when I do what I think should cause the bug based on the code and crash reports, but we’ll get this fixed somehow. To hack around this, open X-Plane.prf in your favorite text editor, find the line that...

Interesting new from the X-Plane Development team … beta 6 10.20 is out! This build fixes the missing paths in the library that were causing the dreaded “Could not load fac/forest/beach” error. This build also puts in some important changes to 64-bit plugis, so below I will try to point out what matters to select audiences: Users: If you don’t make...