What's new in X-Plane 12.1.2?

[nathanwildthorn]

That's a great edition to X-Plane 12! But a very much needed global scenery overhaul would keep long-time X-Plane users like me from feeling insulted every time we look out of our airplane's cockpit. It's 2024. X-Plane 12's default scenery is far behind the curve of what it should be. Improving the scenery will improve X-Plane's user value and flying experience, and will _definitely_ attract more users. X-Plane 12 is an extraordinary Simulator. It would be mind-blowing if it had properly depicted scenery. (X-Plane user since version 9).

[torstengrahn]

Thank you X-Plane for the way of presentation. I think, this format is great, entertaining and give the feeling of being close to the team! Please keep up that way👍

[CajunJosh]

Really enjoy the update. The artists did a great job with the new boats & ships. Hope they might circle back and throw in a few cruise ship type vessels, would be awesome to see those colorful beasts out at night over the oceans.

[LuxPlanes]

Nice and fun update :) looking forward to seeing the future scenery enhancements!

[toddjbradshaw]

What a great boss to send you to such a wonderful place simply to check things out. I know there are others here (me looking at the boomers) but I am one of those people that had X-Plane when it first came out in 1995. I seem to remember paying $200 for the CD and was overjoyed to fly it back in the salad days of my Graphic Design career on a slow day. All this to say, at 53 years old now, and watching Austin develop this over the years has been a huge blessing in my life. I respectfully consider the gripes about this, and that, in regards to what could be improved but that first copy always sticks in my head and heart to remind me, maybe all of us, just how far we've come. Before that folks, it was Sublogic Flight Simulator on my Commodore 64 and let me tell ya. Well.. Congrats to the X-Plane Team. To the rest of ya's, I'm glad I lived to see what the Flight Simulation has become over the decades. And all of us were part of the story.

[RavensHammer]

Awesome! I've landed this place numerous times, looking forward to doing it again, soon! Love that you're improving the variety of shipping, always fun to see someone floating along below you!

[RobertoGodfrey]

Been glued to MSFS2020, but wow! Nice to see XP12 getting a massive overhaul with the boats. XP12 won't look like it's WW3 all over the World anymore with the only boats being in the simulator being warships, lol.

[louisromero]

Super cool Austin. I remember pinging you "back in the day" about more sailing stuff (though I dreamed maybe crazy big about being able to sail simulate in the game). But this is beautiful stuff! Always great to see what y'all come up with next!

[pierro]

8:28 Hey X-plane developpers !
The wake angle for speed boats is quite easy to calculate
alpha = 1/(2 * sqrt(2*pi) * Fr)
Where Fr is the Froude number
Where Fr = U/(sqrt(gL))
With U = ship speed, g = gravitationnal acceleratio, and L the hull length.
For boats in the Kelvin Regime it's 19.47° constant.

BTW
Is it possible to see the 3D ocean physics waves in wireframe or something else ? (not the rendered + wavelets etc )
Thanks

[Relics_tv]

Fantastic!! I hope to get to use the new generation scenery to add DEM hight data for airports so they can get super detailed or modify the terrain geometry. I wanna be able to bring amazing scenery to the gateway program!

[terryt]

I loved this!!! It was top quality and a lot of fun to watch while being informative at the same time. One of the most glaring shortcomings of X Plane, and MSFS for that matter, was the barren
bodies of water that in real life, depending on the season and location, would be teeming with boats and ships. Huge props to you guys for adding them--they look great! I can't wait
until I get a chance to make my first flight with this fabulous update; keep 'um coming! Viva X Plane!!

[robertalan]

Thank you Austin and the X-Plane crew for the endless hours of sim flying from X-Plane 8 to now 12 which is in the mail. X-Plane 8 was purchased to practice glider tows.

[Erny_Module]

Excellent news! I do a lot of GA island hopping so this update will hit the spot! I used to fly across the North Sea a lot, and on those trips the ships leaving wakes in the sea looked just like aircraft leaving contrails! Love X-Plane, it gets better and better all the time!
BTW... if there's an opening at LR for a scenery researcher, I'm currently available!

[piloto_loco]

fun to watch, good work boys.
was hoping to see curving boats and their typical water trail, jet skies jumping n stuff lol.
how about underwater life? textures, orthos, water surface variances in the distance, submarines, orcas n sharks,
this really gets x-plane to life, thank you and keep on, don't stop here:)

[VRFlightSimGuy]

Cool video. I hope VR gets some more love soon. Best wishes.

[tfkslinuxgaming]

I really like the water effects around the cargo ships. Very nicely done!

[rudolfmohrmann]

what about the cockpit darkness and repetitive boxy cloud patterns?

[williamj.b.]

There is a serious aliasing problem in Xplane 12. Please provide a solution to this problem now. The MSAA method is a performance killer and does not provide any benefits.

[TH-ncgj]

We would all love a good Kai tak, especially with the Felis 747 classic .

[cleverlyblonde]

I too find the irony that my MS2020 installation takes so long to patch that I have time to look at a lot of your videos somewhat ironic and amusing ;)