X-Plane 12 News & Announcements
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2970600/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_Greater_Moncton_International/
Airport Greater Moncton International is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
Airport Greater Moncton International is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement (revised static aircrafts)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2970590/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_Melilla/
Airport Melilla is now also available on Steam for X-Plane 12.
Feature:
Airport Melilla is now also available on Steam for X-Plane 12.
Feature:
- Detailed recreation of the real Melilla Airport (IATA: MLN, ICAO: GEML)
- Military heliport (GEHM) and Islas Chafarinas Isabel (XGEI2)
- 4K PBR textures for objects and ground
- High-resolution custom colored orthophoto
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- 3D trees & grass
- New custom Mesh for the airport area
- Optimized for great performance and visual results
The time has come, the eagerly awaited updates of our two-part scenery Society Islands XP are now available: Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP has been updated to version 1.2 and Tahiti & Windward Islands XP to version 1.1. Both scenery packages await you -exclusively for X-Plane 12– with exciting and breathtaking new features, as well as numerous improvements and a few fixes.
First of all, we’d like to announce that we started to gradually implement all the new cool features that X-Plane 12 has brought with it. Specifically with these updates, we’ve implemented so-called “weather maps” for (almost) all of the materials we’ve developed for the scenery. In less technical terms: Be careful, from now on it will get really wet as soon as it starts to rain (or has rained):
X-Plane 12 also allowed us to implement some ideas that were previously impossible (or only difficult) to implement, such as animated waterfalls and a custom soundscape. On the other hand, newest versions of XP12 also required us to update a few things, such as improving atoll and reef textures, and optimizing the lighting for the overlay scenery i.e. autogen – and, we’re finally able to get rid of an annoying bug related to vegetation, known to some of you as the “glowing effect”:
Speaking of vegetation, yes, it’s still 2d for the large rainforests, and only 3d around POIs like airports and helipads. There are a few reasons for this decision, but to cut a long story short, we didn’t want our ongoing work on full-3d-vegetation to delay these updates. Especially we wanted it to not delay stuff much more important for a pilot, such as e.g. a new and exciting helipad at the Conrad Bora Bora Nui resort (fictional ICAO code XHNTTC, part of Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP).
As you can see, there is so much to report. And there would be even more to talk about, but today’s blog entry is getting longer and longer. I’d say let’s keep it short now: Here is the full changelog for both scenery packs to give you a quick overview, as well as a selection of a few more snapshots:
changelog for Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP v1.2
as well as for Tahiti & Windward Islands XP v1.1:
in addition for Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP v1.2:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437034/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Society_Islands_XP__Tahiti__Windward_Islands/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259163/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Society_Islands_XP__Bora_Bora__Leeward_Islands/
First of all, we’d like to announce that we started to gradually implement all the new cool features that X-Plane 12 has brought with it. Specifically with these updates, we’ve implemented so-called “weather maps” for (almost) all of the materials we’ve developed for the scenery. In less technical terms: Be careful, from now on it will get really wet as soon as it starts to rain (or has rained):
X-Plane 12 also allowed us to implement some ideas that were previously impossible (or only difficult) to implement, such as animated waterfalls and a custom soundscape. On the other hand, newest versions of XP12 also required us to update a few things, such as improving atoll and reef textures, and optimizing the lighting for the overlay scenery i.e. autogen – and, we’re finally able to get rid of an annoying bug related to vegetation, known to some of you as the “glowing effect”:
Speaking of vegetation, yes, it’s still 2d for the large rainforests, and only 3d around POIs like airports and helipads. There are a few reasons for this decision, but to cut a long story short, we didn’t want our ongoing work on full-3d-vegetation to delay these updates. Especially we wanted it to not delay stuff much more important for a pilot, such as e.g. a new and exciting helipad at the Conrad Bora Bora Nui resort (fictional ICAO code XHNTTC, part of Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP).
As you can see, there is so much to report. And there would be even more to talk about, but today’s blog entry is getting longer and longer. I’d say let’s keep it short now: Here is the full changelog for both scenery packs to give you a quick overview, as well as a selection of a few more snapshots:
changelog for Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP v1.2
as well as for Tahiti & Windward Islands XP v1.1:
- updated ground textures, added “wet effects”
- updated nav aid/approach lighting of airports
- revised night lighting of the autogen scenery
- added waterfalls feat. custom particle effects
- added custom soundscape (requires LST plugin)
- implemented XP12 default ambient soundscape
- fixed the “glowing effect” of 2d vegetation
- various, minor fixes and updates to Overlays
- adjusted soil textures roughness/specularity
- adjusted reef and border textures for XP12.1+
- minor fixes on terrain and bathymetry model
in addition for Bora Bora & Leeward Islands XP v1.2:
- new “floating” helipad at Conrad Bora Bora Nui
- updated ports and marinas with new art assets
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437034/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Society_Islands_XP__Tahiti__Windward_Islands/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259163/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Society_Islands_XP__Bora_Bora__Leeward_Islands/
This update mainly improves the "interaction" between the custom seasonal texture sets of the scenery package and the X-Plane 12 default weather effects, specifically snow coverage. Check out these pics for an example!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437033/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Svalbard_XP/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437033/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Svalbard_XP/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969920/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_Zagreb/
Airport Zagreb is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
Airport Zagreb is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps (new decals for more detailed asphalt and concrete)
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement (revised static aircrafts)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969880/XPlane_12_Addon_FSDG__Djerba/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969910/XPlane_12_Addon_FSDG__Hurghada/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969900/XPlane_12_Addon_FSDG__Teruel/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969910/XPlane_12_Addon_FSDG__Hurghada/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969900/XPlane_12_Addon_FSDG__Teruel/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969860/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_Kassel/
Airport Kassel is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
Airport Kassel is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- New, additional orthophoto for the immediate vicinity of the airport (60cm/pixel)
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement
- Revised static aircrafts
- New XP12 Custom Mesh from Maps2Xplane (incl. Ortho4XP patch)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969830/XPlane_12_Addon_29_PalmsCaptain7__Airport_Nuremberg/
Nuremberg is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
Nuremberg is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement
- Revised static aircrafts
Welcome to the Caribbean! X-Plane 12.1.2 is our latest minor release to bring new features and some fresh custom airports.
What’s new?
First of all, you will see all types of different boats sailing around the X-Plane world! The number of boats shown depends on the World Objects Density setting within your Graphics Settings.
This new feature adds to the immersion of X-Plane, especially when flying around islands and coats. Specific ships types appear with region-specific accuracy.
Along with all sorts of new boats, we also added three custom airports in the Caribbean. These airports have been built by hand with custom buildings and ground textures.
Let’s take a look!
Princess Juliana International Airport (TNCM)
Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and is the perfect starting point for you to discover our new boats and the next airports.
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (TNCS)
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is an airport on the island of Saba. It is famous for having one of the shortest commercial runways in the world with a length of just 1,312 ft (400 m). Our artists added a variety of custom buildings around the entire island as well as an orthographic overlay. We hope you enjoy your stay at Saba.
Gustaf III Airport (TFFJ)
Gustaf II Airport is located on the island of Saint Barthélemy, or St. Barth’s if you’re in the know. Due to its short runway and a variety of obstacles, a special license is required to land at the airport. St. Barth’s lists as one of the most dangerous airports in the world. Let’s see if you have what it takes!
Gateway Airports
X-Plane 12.1.2 represents a major milestone for our Scenery Gateway. We now ship with 20,000 (!!!) 3D Airports thanks to the stunning work of our community of designers. Thank you so much for this wonderful work – the entire X-Plane community appreciates you!
Additional Camera Commands
With our General Aviation pilots especially in mind, we have added four new camera commands that will help you to look around quickly, especially when flying an approach.
The first two commands allow you to tilt the cockpit view by 45 degrees to the left and right. Executing the command again will tilt the view by another 45 degrees. We also added some commands to look up and down. Instead of 45 degrees, the camera will tilt 30 degrees and just as the other commands, you can execute the command again to look 60 or 90 degrees up and down.
Command Description
sim/view/rot_cockpit_left_45 Rotate cockpit view: tilt 45 degrees left.
sim/view/rot_cockpit_right_45 Rotate cockpit view: tilt 45 degrees right.
sim/view/rot_cockpit_up_30 Rotate cockpit view: tilt 30 degrees up.
sim/view/rot_cockpit_down_30 Rotate cockpit view: tilt 30 degrees down.
Dual Jetways
What good are two boarding doors if your jetway only attaches to one?! By popular demand, we have added support for dual jetways. Aircraft/airport authors now have the ability to update their products for this feature.
New Library Objects
Our artists added some new items to the general airport library, such as some passenger stairs, airport buses and a ground power unit.
Support for VirtualFly Hardware
Included with 12.1.2 is support of four additional products of VirtualFly in X-Plane:
Fixes and Enhancements
Replay System
We have focused effort on improving the stability of our replay system for this release. What good is a butter landing if you can’t show it to your friends later?
Local Web API
When the WebServer cannot bind to port 8086 a warning will be shown to the user, but X-Plane will continue to start normally.
Scenery
We updated the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas.
Aircraft
General
We fixed a problem regarding rain drops on windshields (XPD-15751).
Cirrus Vision SF50
We fixed an engine behavior bug in the Cirrus VisionJet. Previously, if you started the engine, shut it down and then immediately tried to start it again, nothing happened.
Beta ALIA VTOL
The ALIA 250 now has gauges for all four batteries on its display.
What’s new?
First of all, you will see all types of different boats sailing around the X-Plane world! The number of boats shown depends on the World Objects Density setting within your Graphics Settings.
This new feature adds to the immersion of X-Plane, especially when flying around islands and coats. Specific ships types appear with region-specific accuracy.
Along with all sorts of new boats, we also added three custom airports in the Caribbean. These airports have been built by hand with custom buildings and ground textures.
Let’s take a look!
Princess Juliana International Airport (TNCM)
Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and is the perfect starting point for you to discover our new boats and the next airports.
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (TNCS)
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is an airport on the island of Saba. It is famous for having one of the shortest commercial runways in the world with a length of just 1,312 ft (400 m). Our artists added a variety of custom buildings around the entire island as well as an orthographic overlay. We hope you enjoy your stay at Saba.
Gustaf III Airport (TFFJ)
Gustaf II Airport is located on the island of Saint Barthélemy, or St. Barth’s if you’re in the know. Due to its short runway and a variety of obstacles, a special license is required to land at the airport. St. Barth’s lists as one of the most dangerous airports in the world. Let’s see if you have what it takes!
Gateway Airports
X-Plane 12.1.2 represents a major milestone for our Scenery Gateway. We now ship with 20,000 (!!!) 3D Airports thanks to the stunning work of our community of designers. Thank you so much for this wonderful work – the entire X-Plane community appreciates you!
Additional Camera Commands
With our General Aviation pilots especially in mind, we have added four new camera commands that will help you to look around quickly, especially when flying an approach.
The first two commands allow you to tilt the cockpit view by 45 degrees to the left and right. Executing the command again will tilt the view by another 45 degrees. We also added some commands to look up and down. Instead of 45 degrees, the camera will tilt 30 degrees and just as the other commands, you can execute the command again to look 60 or 90 degrees up and down.
Command Description
sim/view/rot_cockpit_left_45 Rotate cockpit view: tilt 45 degrees left.
sim/view/rot_cockpit_right_45 Rotate cockpit view: tilt 45 degrees right.
sim/view/rot_cockpit_up_30 Rotate cockpit view: tilt 30 degrees up.
sim/view/rot_cockpit_down_30 Rotate cockpit view: tilt 30 degrees down.
Dual Jetways
What good are two boarding doors if your jetway only attaches to one?! By popular demand, we have added support for dual jetways. Aircraft/airport authors now have the ability to update their products for this feature.
New Library Objects
Our artists added some new items to the general airport library, such as some passenger stairs, airport buses and a ground power unit.
Support for VirtualFly Hardware
Included with 12.1.2 is support of four additional products of VirtualFly in X-Plane:
- Switcho Engines Ignition
- Switcho Engines Electrical
- Switcho Lights
- Switcho Trims
Fixes and Enhancements
Replay System
We have focused effort on improving the stability of our replay system for this release. What good is a butter landing if you can’t show it to your friends later?
Local Web API
When the WebServer cannot bind to port 8086 a warning will be shown to the user, but X-Plane will continue to start normally.
Scenery
We updated the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas.
Aircraft
General
We fixed a problem regarding rain drops on windshields (XPD-15751).
Cirrus Vision SF50
We fixed an engine behavior bug in the Cirrus VisionJet. Previously, if you started the engine, shut it down and then immediately tried to start it again, nothing happened.
Beta ALIA VTOL
The ALIA 250 now has gauges for all four batteries on its display.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969750/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_Stuttgart/
Stuttgart is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
Stuttgart is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement
- Revised static aircrafts
- New XP12 Custom Mesh from Maps2Xplane (incl. Ortho4XP-Patch)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969790/XPlane_12_Addon_Axonos__Varna_Airport/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969810/XPlane_12_Addon_Axonos__Owen_Roberts_International_Airport/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969810/XPlane_12_Addon_Axonos__Owen_Roberts_International_Airport/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969770/XPlane_12_Addon_FACO_Simulations__F15C_Eagle/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437039/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Troms/
Tromsø is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
Tromsø is now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement
- Revised parking lots with many additional static cars
- New, fully XP12 compliant mesh including soundscape, seasons and 3D waves (including Ortho4xp patch and custom DEM)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436900/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_Friedrichshafen/
Airport Friedrichshafen now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
Airport Friedrichshafen now also available for XPlane 12 via Steam.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Fully customized XP12 version
- Revised airport lighting
- Revised ground including PBR reflections and new normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement
- XP12's 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Updated static aircraft assignment/placement (static aircraft can be turned off)
- Reworked Autogen and road placement
- Revamped parking lots with lots of additional static cars as well as lighting and vegetation
- Revised ground traffic
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436901/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_Manchester/
Explore the Airport Manchester – the largest British airport outside the London metropolitan region.
New in the XP12 Version:
Explore the Airport Manchester – the largest British airport outside the London metropolitan region.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Revised ground including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Revised vegetation placement (New volumetric grass)
- Leverages XP12's new 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no additional add-ons or plugins
- Revised autogen and street placement
- Revamped parking lots with lots of additional static cars as well as lighting and vegetation
- Revised ground transport
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436904/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_BerlinTegel/
Berlin Brandenburg Airport is now followed by the old airport Berlin-Tegel in the German capital. In reality, it has already been replaced by the BER, in XPlane 12 we have now brought the airport back to life.
New in the XP12 Version:
Berlin Brandenburg Airport is now followed by the old airport Berlin-Tegel in the German capital. In reality, it has already been replaced by the BER, in XPlane 12 we have now brought the airport back to life.
New in the XP12 Version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Revised ground including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement
- Leverages XP12's new 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement
- Revamped parking lots with lots of additional static cars as well as lighting and vegetation
- Revised ground traffic
- Navigation data including installation instructions to reopen Tegel in XP12
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437036/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Airport_Berlin_Brandenburg_V2/
Being infamous for its construction delays, the German capital's new airport is finally open and available now for X-Plane 12!
New in the XP12 version:
Being infamous for its construction delays, the German capital's new airport is finally open and available now for X-Plane 12!
New in the XP12 version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Revised ground with current traces of wear (2023)
- New markings and ramps for parking stands E21-E35
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version
- Reworked vegetation placement
- XP12's new 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Updated static aircraft assignment/placement
- Reworked autogen and street placement
- Reworked parking lots with lots of additional static cars as well as lighting and vegetation
- Revised ground traffic
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437037/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__Helgoland/
Helgoland now also for X-Plane 12, the recreation of Germany’s only island in the open sea at a high level of detail and with many thrilling new options.
New in the XP12 version:
Helgoland now also for X-Plane 12, the recreation of Germany’s only island in the open sea at a high level of detail and with many thrilling new options.
New in the XP12 version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground now includes PBR reflections
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no additional add-ons or plugins
- Adaptation of the animated wind turbines to XP12 (animation also without SAM plugin if not installed)
- New, fully XP12 compliant mesh including soundscape, seasons and 3D waves
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437038/XPlane_12_Addon_Aerosoft__St_Tropez/
Based on the latest image sources, highly detailed objects were created at and along the airport. In addition, the villages La Mole and Le Moulin Roux were upgraded with individual autogen. The photo texture covers an area of approx. 26km² and thus covers the entire traffic pattern.
New in the XP12 version:
Based on the latest image sources, highly detailed objects were created at and along the airport. In addition, the villages La Mole and Le Moulin Roux were upgraded with individual autogen. The photo texture covers an area of approx. 26km² and thus covers the entire traffic pattern.
New in the XP12 version:
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now with PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Revised vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no additional add-ons or plugins
- Revised autogen and street placement
- Reworked static aircraft (now fully switchable)