• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
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    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

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Yet another forum to keep track of :D Looks like a cool place to hang out especialy since Owen and Inspector Poly are over here....

Brian
 
Brian_Gladden said:
Yet another forum to keep track of :D Looks like a cool place to hang out especialy since Owen and Inspector Poly are over here....

Brian
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Inspector Poly has been advised that he is required to behave when he comes over for a visit, even if provoked by some ne'er do wells that shall remain nameless.
 
Hey Brian and Milton - great having you guys join us! Every day we're getting more and more people, so this is quickly becoming the place to be regarding FS development. :) (No offense to FFDS intended ;) )

Best,

Owen
 
Hi Milton... EXACTLY what I've been struggling with lately....... (although I don't design)... I must be the ONLY one who has NOT used the final FSX yet... am just reading, moderating, helping, and reading more........ :D

Good to see you here though :)

Francois
 
I share Milton's "dilema".

I make my daily rounds, but I'm sure that I miss many good "niche" aircraft developer sites, so the cross pollination of ideas and tips is essential.

Some developers lean to one or another site, and lurk in others. From our (FFDS's) point of view, *where* the modeller gets the information from is not as important as the fact that he gets *good* information.

FFDS was set up with idea to share freely this information. As such, it has depended on the goodness of the various developers and modelers over the years to come, ask questions, but more importantly, share what they've found out. We've developed a good base of source files for all the flightsim modeling programs (and don't think you can't get some use of that old AFX) from Flightshopp through AF99, FSDS, and gmax, all due to the willingess of develoepers to share their work. THere's also a good base of tutorials, either downloadable (there was no Wiki when we started out, and the FFDS caretaker is barely html literate, let alone php/css/xml/ aware to do any fancy stuff) or links to the tutorial site itself (Yes, some tutorial makers prefer links to their sites rather than the actual tutorial).

fsdeveloper.com has a good crew of powerful enthusiasts who are well connected with the Flight Simulator development team, allowing them to learn the ins and outs of upcoming versions, if not actually participate in developing some of the tools and actual effects !! In contrast, in spite of having supported Flight Simulator modelling for over eight years, I doubt that FFDS registers with any of the Flight Simulator develoment team, other than a link in the fsinsider.com developer links page, and a link to the panel forum in Engauged's blog page.

Again, *where* the information comes from is not as important as getting the information out there.
 
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