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My understanding is that Orbx will be taking a more 'ground level' integrated role in FSW, which may mean that they would bypass any normal distribution restrictions. Certainly that would be the position Orbx would be aiming for, which would also explain why they are not committing to X-plane -- it's unlikely that X-plane would want to make any agreement of this sort, so Orbx would be better off going where they have more clout that the average third party developer.
Ok, so that's just what I've got in my head, from various posts and announcements, and a bit of artistic license...
If you can make a buck out of every simulator customer through some sort of distribution deal, you can't really lose. Not many developers have the same clout as Orbx, so they'll be keen to take advantage of their position. And they would probably encourage a certain level of control of third party addons, which would keep them in an unassailable position.
 
Time to get to work...

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How much interest is there in a "Pro Mission Editor"? Will support for creating scenery and aircraft also be provided?
Jim F.
 
Well it's certainly a tremendously important tool if one wants to tap into the casual simmers market.
 
kabekew said:
I remember you could by "mission packs" for MSFS in the (early?) 90's, but then they disappeared, so I'm guessing there must not be a real market for them.
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The tools for making them were payware and also demanded a chunk of royalties. Some amazing tools that made it easy, but it became costly.
 
Basically, this is FSX. Same vectors and landclass system. Maybe some eye-candy with materials, but the aerodynamics will be the same system. Same AI. Might run better with a new graphics card and 16 GB memory.
 
The terrain/scenery engine doesn't seem to have received much attention for the initial release. The data fed to the scenery engine has had some updates, at least airports and nav data, maybe also landclass and other terrain data? Orbx textures and night lighting, but we saw those in Flight School.

The default aircraft graphics and systems appear to have a lot of enhancements, supposedly also flight modeling and weather. Strange, I know, for a flight simulator to put the emphasis on such things. :confused:

As a scenery developer myself, nothing new to see yet. Hopefully the next release. Waiting patiently for details on the SDK.
 
I do have to admit that I like the rain on the windscreens. The make or break factor, however, is whether its wipable or not.
 
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