9/8/2023 0 Comments Xplane 9 texas sceneryI mention this charge again just to cover myself, ideally the extra costs of developing for multiple platforms would be met by increased sales, but as always with New Zealand, the market may not be self-sustaining enough. I really think that there might be a bit of shuffling between platforms in the short/medium term, so it makes sense if those who want to try something new don't have to repurchase the scenery they already own, albeit with or without a small charge. The Kickstarter project is aiming for a single license for any scenery released to those who make a pledge, but ultimately it may be that there might be a small charge for extra platform support - this really depends on how the market shapes up, and this is part of the market testing which the funding will allow for. The impetus for this project was to get to a point where those who already used 'Real NZ' or Godzone scenery could take it with them if they shifted to a new platform. Just checking in here to say hi, I hope that this will end up a regular hangout if things go well with X-plane. In that case, the free market was eventually swamped with payware, and people ended up needing to spend vast sums to populate the sim world with believable scenery objects. It seems to me that this is a healthier way for free and semi-payware scenery to co-exist and thrive, compared to what happened with FSX. The developer will only get a small fraction of the sales they'd have with a DRM system, but there will be at least a trickle of income to help offset the investment of time in the project. When the result is at a quality level that justifies it, you put up a PayPal donation button. I think the future for this kind of thing may evolve as donation-ware, with people developing scenery mainly because they love to do it. There is still a demand for quality that's a few levels above what the average amateur can do, and it would be great to have more highly detailed small airports like CZST and CYBD by Beti-X. One of the first things I did a few years ago when WED got to the point where it was more usable, was create a rough version of my local GA airport. X-Plane does give us the tools for that, and they're not that hard to use. The balancing factor, in my view, is that because we aren't flooded with payware scenery, there is more incentive for amateurs to create it themselves and distribute it for free. I can understand how the lack of scenery DRM is a barrier to developers who want a conventional business model. As a consumer I'm happy about this, as a developer, I'm not I'm sure if enough pressure is put on LR they'll eventually cave in and provide some sort of preload API, but even a company like ORBX was unable to convince them. This I can imagine is quite off-putting to many developers, including ORBX. Developers can obviously protect their installers, but once installed, it can be copied, shared, etc. Would be particularly interested if he releases a custom scenery object overlay which could sit on top of the AlpilotX/Ortho4XP content at a price point below that of the product which incorporates privately sourced ortho imagery and mesh data. I'll be keeping an eye on the project for sure. I'm already pretty happy with the ortho and mesh results I can get with Ortho4XP and Alpilotx's work and hope to have more time in future to enhance this with my own NZ scenery development so I'm probably not the target market but if you're looking for an OrbX treatment of NZ from someone who lives and breathes flight sim scenery fidelity in NZ then this is your guy. I'll be interested to see how he adapts to the X-Plane ecosystem, particularly in regard to DRM and protecting the signifiant investment in custom scenery object development as X-Plane doesn't (yet) provide the same protections for content developers as the FSX world. Have long looked over the fence with envy at Robin Corn's work for FSX as it really is very detailed. DFW is the headquarters and the largest hub of American Airlines, the world's largest airline.As a Kiwi, best of luck to him. 7 runways, 5 terminals, 165 gates and 3 control towers help accommodate the 1,845 daily flights. With 681,244 aircraft movements in 2015, it is also the world's third busiest airport. Sprawled across 18,076 acres of land - an area larger than the island of Manhattan - DFW is the world's third largest airport.
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