[ Closed ] X-Life ver 1.1 (r1, ++) (Page 10 of 19)

thanks Seraphim
I dont see any ATC setting in the sound menu of X-Plane? together with ENGINES, ET... there is only a slider for RADIO COMMUNICATIONS and it is 100%... where do you find an ATC STT setting? can you point out where exactly?

what is funny is that it works fine for the first flight upon loading the sim and then when I do another OPEN AIRCRAFT and then another flight that is when I get no more voice?

Hi all,

I´m using X-Life 1.1r3 with Bluebell XL aircraft models,  and I´ve noticed that never I´ve seen the classic smoke puff on thouch down when landing.

I know this fx is related to cloud textures, and I´ve increased the number of puffs to 100% but still no smoke. For textures, I use Skymaxx 3.2 with Weather Connector.
I´ve checked every .obj of the Bluebell aircraft models, and they show the smoke lines, so they should show the puffs on t/d.
As an real life avid aircraft spotter, I really miss the effect on XP.

No puffs on 10.45 and also not in 10.50 b4. All effects, all details, all scenery at maxium.

I tested removing Skymaxx and Weather Connector (I deleted both plugin folders), and nothing. Also tried different weather conditions, tryind to find out if maybe the effects are "wet" or "dry" surface dependent. Again, nothing happens.

Any ideas? Tnx in advance.

Tnx in advance.

I've made some test today and understood that the root of issue is NOAA weather plugin. With any settings of NOAA weather FPS drops twice in 1.1r3. But FPS doesn't drop with 1.0 release (with working NOAA)!

Why must you have implicit NOAA ?!  Set X-Plane to real weather and you will get what you need ....

Does X-Plane weather have several turbulence and wind layers?
But anyway, there is a thread for beta version. People use various weather engines (NOAA, Global Weather etc.) and I think that it's X-Plane issue about which I reported.

Test Flight: LTAI - LGMK, A320neo 2.6r2, XL 1.1r3, X-Plane 1.45r2, iMac27 Mavericks
Stable

LTAI: Well designed scenery. XL high air and ground traffic. FM car works. Aircraft parking not at the gate.
LGMK: Nice scenery RWY 34 VOR landing challenging! (RWY 6230 ft on a hill) Poor ground traffic.

ATC advices for changing Flight Level occurs just in the last second.......

Good Day,

You just taught me something as I did not know that the puff of smoke was generated from a weather system.

I really do not think this is the case as I did not have SMP-3 and still had puffs of smoke coming from aircraft tires.
I am thinking this is something else. I do not know how to solve this issue as I have never thought about this. So, there will be someone here that can help you though..

Happy Flying,
Brian.

Good day ,

How about you send me a fresh log txt so I can see what is going on real Time as this is very important to solving this type of issue.
not only I can read it but others can have a go at looking over the issue and more likely than not have an answer for you PDQ...

Thank's for the post,
Brian

Bluebell AC as far as I can tell are just much better looking AI aircraft (feels much more realistic when taxiing nearby...).  I dont think it changes anything to yhe inner workings of XLife

Another video of memory, cpu and fps issue of 1.1r3 (with NOAA Weather), also there is a workaround.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDG1xYReHKY

So, X-Life takes about 2.4 G (!) memory, loads cpu and etas about 30 fps. But if to invoke an external browser (show airports map) all is normalized.

Hello and good day everyone

Did some more testing this morning and found a few interesting stuff I thought worth reporting.

did my testing with X-Plane 10.45, W7/64, with Carenado F33 Bonanza around DD NYork airports (KJFK, KLGA, KEWR).

1) I installed X-Life 1.1r3 (Deluxe) full instal (with Bluebell aircraft) and now the ATC VOICE IS PRESENT IN ALL FLIGHTS (solved previous 1.1r2 problem!!!).  I made a flight from JFK to LGA, and when parked, filed a new flight plan in X-Life and ATC was working like a charm.  Even did stay parked and filed another plan to another airport and ATC worked fine as well.

2) one of the main bugs seems to be with ATIS.  I think that ATIS is always showing as dept. airport the initial airport when X-Plane is fired... so when changing location in X-plane menu or even after landing somewhere (X-Life certified airport), the dept. ATIS stays stuck to that initial airport.  The arrival airport ATIS seems to be working fine.  Furthermore, despite the wrong dept. ATIS, only clicking on the ATIS tab seems to satisfy Clearance or Ground who dont tell me 'wrong ATIS' anymore.  BUT that doesnt give one the right QNH which Ground or Tower (I dont remember) does give you at some point.

by the way, exiting the plugin (with the enable/disable plugins menu item) does reset some params but not the ATIS wich seems stuck on the initial X-plane loading aiport...

3) another drawback seems to be with the number of aircraft... I have set the settings on max
-AC density 150%
-Gates busy 50
-RWY operation interval (I tried 1 minute several times but it always reverts to 2 minutes).
Despite those settings, even at really big aiports (EGLL, EHAM, KJFK, KLGA, etc...) there seems to be never more than 6 to 8 entries in the tower listing (or in the actual outside views).  And very often, there are only 3 or 4.  How can one make it more busy?  with more takeoffs and landings, taxiing, etc.?

4) another problem is that there never seems to be anybody at the arrival airport.  For example, I took off from JFK and stayed in contact with ATC all the way, reading back and acknowledging its requests (climb to such alt. descend to x feet, report on ILS established, etc.. and throughout, there was not one AI aircraft at the destination airport...  perhaps those two are too close, so I tried also yesterday a longer haul, from EGLL to EHAM with my favorite FF767 and it was the same thing... nobody on the receiving airport...

As mentionned by somebody else in this forum, it would be so much more immersive if we could hear the tower speak to the other AI as well... just a dream...

any hints?

JEFX