Name: VISUALXP-ULTIMATE X-PLANE 12
Brand: SimAdditions
SKU: 17702
Price: 23.94 EUR
Availability: InStock

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SIMADDITIONS

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SIMADDITIONS

Taille

1.09MB

Langue

English

Disponible depuis

2023-03-31

Version

1.1.1

PID

17702

Description

VisualXP

VisualXP will enhance your X-Plane Atmosphere, Clouds, Water, and Scenery(Lights and Shadow) visually.

VisualXP has its own live weather resource, you don’t need any extra plugins, with this plugin you can search weather for three airports as we call them Departure, Arrival, and Alternative Airport, also you can check the weather briefings for the current position of the aircraft.

VisualXP has its own User Interface, this interface will show you the Live weather information, the search results, and the current weather briefings for the Aircraft position.

The interface has multiple tabs. These tabs have named Atmosphere, Clouds, Water, Scenery, and Weather. Each Tab has its functions, buttons, and sliders, With these Buttons, and Sliders, you can control VisualXP easily.

The Atmosphere feature will enhance the Sun lighting, Ambient lighting, Scattering color temperature, Sky colors, Fog density, Aerosol, Visibility range, Horizon scattering, and Zenith scattering.

All of these will be controlled automatically using Real calculations to make the sky looks more normal and realistic, Also we’ve added sliders for these functions, With these sliders, you can control the strength and the performance of these function as you prefer.

In the Clouds tab, we have functions and sliders which control the cloud formations, clouds visibility range, clouds brightness, clouds density, thickness, cloudiness, and clouds details, all of these will work together to give better clouds forms.

In the Water tab, there are functions to control the water wave foams, sun gloss, water wave strength, and scaling. there are sliders to control these functions as well.

In the Scenery Tab, we have Lights functions, simulating real-life fog at night where there are multiple lights that illuminate the fog. We also can Enable one of the great features of X-Plane “the Fog Spotlights” which add realistic spotlights for all objects in X-Plane. we can control the light spots’ strength on the ground as well, we have sliders to control the size and the strength of the lights as well as spots lights.

In the Weather Tab, we have three tabs inside, Live Weather, Weather Search, and Weather Briefings. in the Live Weather Tab you can enable VisualXP Live Weather Engine or disable it in case you want to use your own source, our live weather takes it data from NOAA contumely based on the aircraft location, it download required data for that location without the need to download the full report of METAR. you can also control the weather refresh time rate in case you are setting up your aircraft for departure which takes some time and needs the weather to be updated, but while you are in the sky the weather will be updated automatically depending on your location, and every weather updates you will get all needed information on the User Interface.

in the Weather Search Tab, you can get weather reports for three airports and you will get all the needed information on the User Interface, while in the weather Briefing Tab, you will have all weather information including clouds altitudes pressure, and all aloft for winds directions, winds speed, temperature, dewpoint, winds share, and turbulence, also the status of the water waves.

VisualXP Interface has three User Presets to be used to save the settings separately.

VisualXP Interface has multiple interface colors and you can choose the color you prefer for your interface.

You can restart and turn off VisualXP from within the plugin without the need to reload all plugins or plugin Admin.

VisualXP Licence key

Once you bought VisualXP you will get your license Key, with this key you can activate the plugin directly, To keep your VisualXP unlocked please never share the key with anyone.

You can use this key on multiple devices but one device at a time will be worked and the other will be locked temporarily till the next use. in case you need to run VisualXP on multiple devices we suggest you buy a copy for each device.

VisualXP Variations

We have Three Variation of VisualXP, which we called them “Plugin Levels” these plugins level are “Ultimate, Premium, and Basic”.

The Ultimate version will include all features of VisualXP, while the other levels have some limitations which are explained as follow:

The Premium level has the mentioned features except for the “Scenery” Tab (Lights functions and sliders) and the “Weather Briefing” tab which is included in the Weather Master Tab.
The Basic level will have an Atmosphere, and Clouds Only.

We have these three variations to give the user the ability to choose the one that fits he/her needs.

The Plugin Guide

The plugin instructions are included in the plugin once you hover the mouse over any of the buttons, sliders, or functions. instruction will be shown on the left-down corner of the plugin interface instantly.

Installation

For all plugin Levels:

After downloading the plugin unpack the zip folder to ..X-Plane 12Resourcesplugins and run X-Plane. you are ready to go!

For Ultimate Level Only to use the lights make sure to do the following:

Browse to ..X-Plane 12Resourcesbitmapsworldlites and find and backup the Lights texture file called “1000_lights_close“.
Then Browse to ..X-Plane 12ResourcespluginsVisualXP
Find the Lights texture file called “1000_lights_close” and copy and paste it to ..X-Plane 12Resourcesbitmapsworldlites and run X-Plane. you are ready to go!

VisualXP Features : all following features below are from v1.0.0 for latest feature check here https://simadditions.com/download/

Atmosphere (Basic |Premium | Ultimate)

Multiple Ozone colors.
Realtime Sky scattering automatic and manual control.
- Ability to control the strength of the sun lighting.
- Ability to change the strength of ambient lighting.
- ability to control the strength of horizon scattering.
- ability to control the strength of zenith scattering.
- ability to control the strength of scattering brightness.
- ability to control the horizon brightness.
- ability to control the temperature of the color of the sky.
- ability to control the RGB coloration.
Realtime Visibility automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the visibility range value.
- ability to control the height of the horizon fog.
Realtime Aerosol automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the strength of aerosol.

Clouds (Basic |Premium | Ultimate)

Multiple Clouds forms.
Clouds visibility range automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the range value.
Clouds density automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the density value.
Clouds brightness automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the direct sun lighting brightness
- ability to control the ambient lighting brightness.
Ability to control the thickness of clouds.
Ability to control the coverage of clouds.
Ability to control the definition of clouds
Ability to change the formation of clouds
Ability to change the quality of clouds on clouds’ shadow.

Water (Premium | Ultimate)

Multiple water mods.
Waves foam automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the strength of foams.
- ability to control the scale of foams.
Tropical water (Water Deep) automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the strength value.
Sun Gloss on water automatic and manual control.
- ability to change the gloss strength value.
Water Waves automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the strength of the wave’s value.
- ability to control the scale of the waves.

Scenery (Ultimate)

Multiple lights mods.
lights fog automatic and manual control.
- ability to control light size.
- ability to control the strength of the lights.
Fog LightsSpots Enabling/Disabling
- ability to Enable/disable the spots for all objects
- ability to control the value strength.
Lights spots on the ground automatic and manual control.
- ability to control the spot’s strength.
ability to control the scenery shadow visibility range.

Weather (Premium | Ultimate)

Live Weather >> (Premium | Ultimate) >> Ability to Enable/Disable VisualXP Live Weather Engine. and have all weather information on the user interface
Weather Search >> (Premium | Ultimate) >> Ability to search within the plugin for METAR reports for Departure, Arrival, and Alternate Airports, and have all weather information results on the user interface
Weather Breifng >> (Ultimate) >> Current position weather Briefing
- Nearest Airport details
- Current Weather at Aircraft position.
  - Air pressure, Humidity, outside temperature, visibility, and Precipitation.
- Clouds
  - Coverage, Type, Base Altitude, and Top Altitude.
- Aloft Winds | Temperature | Dewpoint
- Water Waves Statues

All Automatic function has it’s own sliders to control the strength of the values that the function changes, you can use those sliders anytime while the function has turned ON.

Once you decided to turn off the Auto function the sliders will be turned to manual mode, and then You can control the value as you prefer manually.

The plugin has no noticeable impact on FPS on our end but it can take some FPS while changing the following settings

Clouds on Clouds shadow quality. (Basic |Premium | Ultimate)
Scenery shadow visibility range. (Ultimate)
Lights fog, Lights size, and strength. (Ultimate)
Fog LightsSpots. (Ultimate)

These impacts were tested on Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU/ 24 RAM/ Intel i7-7700HQ 2.8 GHz CPU and it can differ from one Device to another depending on its hardware abilities.

License system

Once you’ve bought the plugin you will get your digital key, this key will be used to activate your plugin. this key can be used on multiple Devices, but only one Device can run the plugin at the same time.

Once you activated the new PC, the old one will be blocked temporarily till you activate it again, in that time the other device will be blocked, and so on.

If you have multiple devices and want to run VisualXP on them you need to have more than one key to be used.

Requis

Things To Be Considered Before Buying

X-Plane 12.04r3 +

If you are using DataRefTool or DataRefEditor, you need to disable them before using ViualXP, VisualXP will stop working instantly once one of these plugins is detected as Enabled. and it will inform you with a message in the user interface to disable these plugins.

Do not use any other plugin, scripts, or mods that controls one of VisualXP features as that will make conflict and will make bad visuals.

The performance will be different from one plugin level to another because of the features that each one has, the higher level will have more performance effects, but no worries with the plugin sliders you can lower the settings to fit your device capacity.

The plugin can’t work in offline mode, a connection to the internet must be available for the license system and downloading weather.

We cannot offer any demos at the moment.

The plugin has been developed using the windows 10 platform and will be for windows only at this time, sorry for Mac and Linux users, we will support these platforms in the future.

The functions of the plugin can be increased or decreased depending on the X-Plane 12 version and the ability that Laminar Research offers.

In case you need support you can use our Support Center https://simadditions.com/support/