[ Closed ] X-Life ver 4 for X-Plane 11 (Page 9 of 24)

HI, I really appreciate and enjoy the new version,
few things anyway are a bit weird.
In case of clearance I can't ask for a different runway (same direction for ex 22L instead of 22R)... in the previous version it was possible all the time.

Also I had the problem of "flight not started" and unfortunately even after the update the problem is there.

Stupid question, is there a way to have a see-through console and maybe smaller?
Is there a way to make the ATC say the name of the company (like DLH for Lufthansa etc...)? a very nice plugin was doing that (124thATC)

Thank you and keep up the good work

With beta versions of XP strange things may happen. I am not expecting a fix for this before 11.30 goes to rc

With the new version 4 I always have to click on 'on/off' to get the atc window to show.
Why not have a few more selections in that menu list to bypass the atc window, example to show the map?

x-life is working great!

I noticed today that some AI aircraft, landing or taking off, are piggy-backed with another plane. Looks funny.
Is this caused by x-life or x-plane?

J.A.Romano - Any updates coming soon? I mean, it's been useless for us with oculus rift for several months now

I tried a flight from LFBH ( La Rochelle ) to EGKK, for some reason X-Life could not load a flight. Firstly it could not find a route from the stand to the runway, then when I tried to load the flight plan it rejected it. I then tried to get X-Life to generate a plan and nothing happened.
LFBH is shown on the X-Life airport list so I'm not sure why this is happening.

can do.

7 major issues/unlikes found for X-Life:

- flights from smaller airports into megahubs makes x-life simply waive off its service,
  you actually have to be in the close vicinity of an approved megahub before x-life finally starts working (severness level 10 of 10)

- interface horrible (gotten worse after the last reworks, transparent solution was good), (severness level 8 of 10)

- traffic overlaps with default static planes at airport docks (severness level: 4 of 10)

- IFR traffic only (severeness level 5 of 10), even helicopters need to file a flight plan.
  GA/VFR and Military Aviation are not considered in X-life.

- blocks game initialization with its own update process (severeness level: 10 of 10).
  This issue has been reported to Laminar as "highly disturbing".

- Activation of x-life at any time of flight blocks game for up to a minute. (severeness level: 9 of 10)

- Airline brands represented wrongly (european airlines at hawaiian docks, russian planes in miami, etc.),
  uncertainty if flight schedules are accurate. (severeness level: 8 of 10)

Likes:

Despite these issues, jar's latest x-life product version has achieved an overall 4 of 10 quality points among x-plane addons,
mainly for its excellent AI-traffic algorhythm for wide body aircraft.

To achieve higher ratings, suggestions include:

- split off AI-traffic product from ATC-Services Product.
  The ATC part is a challenge of its own and at current stage drags down the overall quality.
  X-life is hardly identifyable as what product it wants to be.
- Reduce GUI-dominance, find leaner interaction standards (proposal designs available)
- co-ordinate with other product standards, including default (traffic, GUI, etc.)
- user to be in control of when and what to update
- blocking processor time and/or interruption of gameplay is considered a rather severe quality issue.
  This could drive consumers away from JAR products if not from the base product.
  Urgently find leaner process methods or more effient code.
- VR users give conventional users a hard time. 2 percent of the consumers actually have VR.
  Changing product content in favour to VR-users may have negative impact to the 98 percent mainstream users.
  We suggest seperating product versions. Main users should not be bothered with VR-issues.
- allow initialization of traffic if any of the flightplan waypoints or its final destination includes an approved airport.
  example: flight from KMTH to KMIA. The challenge here is to fly from a sleepy small airport into a highly conjested area.
  Why filing flight plans, if service is not working at point of departure? Bad mark for this product.
- a third-party gui interface should not disturb the actual game view. get that stuff to the left or right border of the screen
  and turn if off instantly when not needed or at will of user.

Thanks to the JAR-team for its dedicated work on X-Plane 3rd party add-on products.
We hope interaction with the consumer can be intensified ("the consumer is always right") so issues become solved more quickly and we would appreciate consumers involvement at earlier stages to avoid such issues at or after the time of publishing.

XPRT
x-plane product testing & reviewing team

I'm having the same problem.

X-life v4 working fine until I mouse scroll wheel on x-life panel, it changed the panel zoom, and then disappeared out the bottom of the screen, unable to get the panel back unless I restart x-plane
Using windows 10 and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2010

I've had a longer chat with Romanov on Skype. He did not allow me to paste the chat here, but for us with Rift, he has no plans to fix it, as he does not know why it's not working, and he kinda don't have any interest in finding out why this happens.
Also his english was not that good, so he had a hard time understanding me :-/

As you can see in the forum Jar has released an update to his A330 so you can guess that he is busy with that project at the moment. It‘s not said tht a project is dead just if you hear nothibg for monthts. Thats not the only project where you hear nothing for months: FF A320, Flyjsim 732, Flyjsim Dash8, xEnviro (which changed after a while). I think thats how it is with a fast changing sim and limited resources for developement of addons (cause of the small market).

It would be nice to hear about any further development with X-Life that's all want to say thanks

Dear developper

Here's my wishlist which would make XL perfect for me:

• If there are no dedicated routes at the airport, try to generate it by XL. (World Traffic can do this - so it must be possible)

• Is it not possible to generate airport routes, assign a gate/spot with the message for example "Taxi to Gate A77 on your own discretion".

• When I want fly from A to B it is VERY ANNOYING first check if A and B ist supported by XL. When not, first manualy search these files and download them. If there is no file for B I have to fly to C or I can't use XL.

• Please respect the airport traffic flow. There are many sceneries with good airport traffic flows (for example active runway depends on time and wind, etc.). Sadly XL ignores the existing traffic flows.

• Please let us select EVERY runway for departure and/or arrival. AI traffic should follow this selection too. So we can simulate a traffic flow.

• When a landed aircraft leaves the runway I should line up. At the moment I have to wait until this aircraft has taxied to gate. (?)
  For example LSZH: When an aircraft landed on a runway ALL 3 runway are blocked until this aircraft taxied to the gate. Very unreal.

Thanks