This morning, I accidentally came across this less than a month old SkyElite for MSFS by 4FlightSims while searching on the Internet. It immediately captured my eyesight with its glass-cockpit-style appearance as well as its feature-rich EFIS PFD and moving map interfaces.
And in particular, unlike other similar apps that are run on the iOS system and connected back to the flight simulator in Windows via a “bridging” program, this one is Continue reading
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658: MSFS M20R Ovation Gauges Pre-Sale
Have been flying much with the Carenado M20R Ovation a lot lately. I quite like this airplane so I am working on to develope the corresponding FIP gauges for it.
On the aircraft, the ADF, TCR and VSI are generally the same MSFS Multi-shared gauges already developed. The others – ASI, ATT, ALT, HSI, VOR2 and Engine Gauges, plus the LED-style moving Flaps, Elevator and Rudder Trims Indicators – are aircraft specific and so have to be created accordingly.
Similar to the earlier MSFS Default Gauges Bundle Offers, a Pre-sale Discount (up to 40% off) is open to all who are interested in this M20R Ovation Gauge Set; and there will be two Options available:
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655: ASI & ATT2 for Zlin Shock Ultra
Two new gauges for Zlin Shock Ultra in MSFS 2020 has been developed. One is the Airspeed Indicator (ASI); and the other is the current Multi-shared Attitude Indicator (ATT) integrated with a small inclinometer.
Many Airspeed Indicators in MSFS 2020, including this Zlin one, are using km/h unit — a bit odd from KNOTS and MHP that are commonly used in FSX, P3D and X-Plane. So I am including a KNOTS version as well for users to choose from.
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654: My Vegetations Mod Updated
In addition to some adjustments to the maximum and minimun values in my last modified vegetation file reported in Post 648, a new tweak to display trees to far distance without performance hit (click image below to enlarge) is further included. It has become my MUST-HAVE tweak for MSFS 2020.
As we know that simulators only load up autogens within specific distance surrounding the aircraft. With this mod showing vegetations virtually unlimited in far distance, the popping up of other autogens becomes unnoticeable — giving you an illusion that everything is already in place.
The last modified vegetation file I put in the Freeware Section in my Store has been updated with this new one. Continue reading
652: Backup Your US Tour
MSFS just released a new update.
In the last US update, the Japan Tour was gone. Should you don’t want to lose the US Tour this time, you’d better backup its folder from the Mission directory first:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\MISSIONS\Asobo\US_Tour
Also backup the asobo-liveevent folder from the Official directory.
Quite annoying, isn’t it? Many users are requesting Asobo to keep the highlighted Tours after updates. Obviously it’s not yet heard so far. Continue reading
650: Location of my Gauges for MSFS
A friend’s friend who asked him where would be the best place to put my gauges for MSFS. The question was referred to me later. Although I already replied to him, I think it would still be useful to put a post about it.
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For those who are installing my new gauges for MSFS:
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If you are using the Logitech’s Plugin for MSFS, just run the installer in the gauge package, the new gauge(s) will be placed in the plugin folder accordingly and the corresponding PluginPages.xml will be updated automatically.
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If you are using SPAD.neXt, the location is all up to you, because you’ll have to add the gauge folder(s) in SPAD.neXt so that SPAD.neXt knows where to find the gauges.
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For those who have/are installing my gauges for FSX/P3D, there are three options to use the gauges in MSFS: Continue reading
649: 4K Monitor Refresh Rate for MSFS
Since my new PC with an RTX3090 graphics card was straight out from the box, the framerate steadies around 30 under Ultra settings. Even though I was a bit surprised by this low number, I didn’t pay much attention to it since everything seems to be working fine.
Until the last weekend I had some time seriously looking at the new system. I found the framerate didn’t change much no matter what I did to the settings. The framerate still sat around 30 somethings.
I started to wonder why since the framerate on my other computer with an i7 6850 CPU and 1080Ti graphics card gains a lot more than that under Ultra settings.
Excluding the CPU and the graphics card, the most suspicious cause of the low framerate seems to be from the monitors I found lastly. Continue reading
648: My MSFS Vegetations Mod
Vegetations in MSFS are generally regarded oversized and look unrealistically. There are tips on the Internet to help improve the situation by reducing the MAX and MIN values of all entries in the 10-asobo_species.xml file under “/fs-base/vegetation” folder to about 60% – 80% (or about 4 – 8 points) of their originals.
My personal preference after tests is to keep the minimum values unchanged but to lower the maximum values to the same values of the minimum; or to 5 when the minimum values are less than 5.
Reducing all the maximum values to the minimum values is also good.
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647: Logitech MSFS Plugin Won’t Work Alone
When I installed the Logitech’s MSFS Plugin onto my two computers (one new, one rebuilt) a couple of weeks ago, I got puzzled because all my Logitech’s Pro Flight Panels worked nicely with MSFS, except the Flight Instrument Panels (FIPs).
There were nothing on the displays — no serial numbers, no product images. All screens were blank. And the most frustrated was Windows recognized them all and said they worked normally.
On my last computer I just replaced, the MSFS Plugin works seamless without any issue. I just have the Plugin installed and off it goes.
It took me nearly a day to figure out that Continue reading
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