Game changer!

REX has this for a long time with their fantastic Accuseason. I don't see any use in this, at a time when msfs2024 is just around the corner.

In terms of density, can you not reduce that in settings ? Very well done video, thanks !

This add-on is to late ! MSFS 2024 implements better vegetation. So i safe the add-on money and invest it in MSFS 2024.

Do you know if it works with Rex?

Would never spend money for more realistic trees in a sim that’s whole objective is to get high and away from trees 😂

Appreciated the honest review. I had bought this too, but was not sure it made much difference here in PA where I fly mostly. Did you happen to compare it to Rex Accuseason to see if that one was any better? Thanks

if i have to run a software for trees, well that is just sad

Looks like Santa Clarita. I hike towsley canyon too.

do you use the realistic tree height add on with this scenery pack?

Jesus christ this looks ridiculously hard. He'd have been better off spending time upgrading the clunky interface. I also think not required, what we love about flight sim is exploring airports and airfields. No interest in making my own runway 😢

Thanks for your video, and also recording at a higher bit rate! Made it much clearer to see the difference this add-on makes, and your input was great! I would like to share a developers perspective if I may. The way imposter trees work in 2020 is that a 3D source model had multiple photos taken from it (all the sides, and angles), then cleaned up in image editing, and stitched together onto a sheet of tree sprites. In sim, they are rendered as an object facing the camera view. As you translate and orbit an impostor tree in 2020, they change the sprite to give the illusion of a fuller 3D model, based on the source model but without the computing power required to run multiple shaders (trunk, leaves, and 3D geometry). The main drawback of this method is that up close, we see a shifting / ghosting as the sprites blend states in movement. Its not too bad and much fuller, and believable at altitude compared to the older ways trees were done in sims. What I'm noticing here though... is that some of the new "Orbx HD" trees look almost 'cross-planar', which *was* the old way trees were done in games for performance reasons (think FSX, XP11 era). Essentially, its still a 3D model, but rather than a complex poly count for a trunk, branches, and leaves, its just two rectangular planes that intersect, with 4 triangles total and one shader material to draw. Thing is, the core rendering system in 2020 is still 'imposter' sprite sheet based tree... So this tells me that is possible Orbx's source 3D models may have been their cross-planar HD trees from FSX (or maybe they made new ones) when remaking their "HD" sprite sheet to replace 2020's imposter sheet, rather than using full 3D models of foliage.. I haven't yet purchased this add-on, but visually that's what it looks like.. Less 'full' as a 3D shape, and more 'flat' at various camera angles. IMO, a cheap way out rather than rendering and capturing images from highly detailed 3D source geometry. I could be very wrong about this, but personally feel they look this way. Examples (10:53, 12:40, and 15:17). The higher the camera angle, the more noticeable it seems, almost to where flat 2D sides of a tree or bush is facing the viewer. From what can be seen in the trailers, 2024, is using fully 3D trees up close, and then what looks to be imposter trees at a distance for performance reasons, with the up-close fully 3D models as the source used to create the imposters. Apart from a tiny bit of lighting differences captured in the render, it looks beautifully seamless and difficult to notice the swap from full 3D to imposter. My opinions aside, it is still very commendable to see Orbx release this effort to improve the existing tree sprite sheet, since those original Asobo imposters were all taken at a very low resolution to begin with, thus looked blurry up close. As a result, the product is as advertised. It very much is higher definition trees for MSFS 2020. Just visually not the approach I would have taken to ensure they complied with the way the original trees were captured. Cheers - GotFriends dev Mykrode

Cheers kurt

Hi kurt. How do i get my managers to refuel AI aircraft? I keep asking on NF discord but nobody answers 😢

They give it away free if you buy something you dont want, lol. What a stupid idea.

Just out of interest, were you using Crosswind MFG pedals for this video? When you were talking about the input viewer, I noticed that your left toe brake axis wasn't quite reaching full deflection and that is something that I occasionally get with my pedals. The solution for me, is to reseat the cable that connects the left pedal with the central bit of the rudder pedal unit, but I would probably be best to just buy another cable. I enjoyed the video by the way.

how do i find magnetic variation non usa

I cannot get it to compile at all. It does nothing

I have the immense privelege and pleasure to own two of these wonderful machines in the real world, a 1966 PA-24 260B and a 1965 PA-24 260. I was also on the testing team for this aircraft. Scott and Jake and the rest of the A2A team have made a masterpeice.

love the comanche!

Cessna 414 is great, but the new Blacksquare Piston Duke is the actual king in Twin GA.

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Can you setup a home base at a real airport already in the sim? Can you choose the Terran type for the runway? How about the terminal size & location, etc?

Great video. Thanks!

Great video, very informative. Thank you

Cant wait to tey it out hey. Just earned my Senior Captains Stripes the other day. So far ive managed to aquire 5 Dc 3's & 3 A320's with hired pilots. I normally run my ol faithful C208 Caravan. Such a great add on for Msfs.

I really like the camera settings you are using thanks to the opentrack software, but that alone wont be enough to have movements in game with some video camera right? I dont understand how the beam eye tracker fits in in all of this. If I buy a video camera and use opentrack software can I have the head movements like you have in the sim? Could you recommend which camera I should look for? What is the best camera for the head tracking purpose? Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much for this. As an ex Opentrack user I found my tobii a huge disappointment in msfs, especially the lack of relative translation. I did try Opentrack with the tobii back when you had to use FacetrackNoIR as the interface but that was a pain. So to find a tobii interface is now within Opentrack is fabulous news, thank you! (As an aside, I started playing Elite Dangerous again recently and tracking config for that is 100% in the tobii apps which is so much better than the half hearted msfs tobii implementation. The tobii / msfs disappointment is very much on Asobo imo. If I knew what I do now, I’d have stuck with my Delanclip and Opentrack! 😁)

Having both given money to SI and BATC, I did get the early access and I would say that Kurt is spot on with: 1.) This is VERY early access, and I believe the same thing as he mentioned about them needing more funding. 2.) It only supports IFR and you are required to have a simbrief login and flight plan on file for it to work (similar to SI) 3.) It does NOT recognize other aircraft in the SIM. Neither talking to them or controlling you around them. 4.) It is rigid to the point to where you can really only fly what you filed. Other things to note: 1.) This is a one time purchase product, unlike SI which is a monthly sub. 2.) There is a premium voice option that is extra $, but it is not required to use. You can use the basic voice models and still get full functionality out of the product. 2A.) IMO, there is not enough of a difference in voice quality to buy the premium voice packs. With that said, the basic voice models are VERY NICE. 3.) What does work, it is 100x better than stock ATC. My final thoughts as of today are: I believe this team will deliver the product as promised. Already having several patches and updates in as many days. You can see the work and improvements already. If you want to be part of helping them move forward, then bust out the $30 and get to flying and provide feedback.

Pretty much everyone that plays truck sims or space flight sims love them. No clue what problems you are having. My Track IR goes haywire often or needs to be constantly adjusted and I have the track clip pro. I've used it for years but have grown tired of constantly having something stuck to my head and trying to find a good spot for it.

The Spit actually does have differential breaking. The break pressure goes proportionally in the same direction as rudder input in the real aircraft, so if you need right differential breaking, hold break lever then push the right pedal.

Even if you half-ass know what you are doing it can still get you buggered. Of 3 attempts I've only succesfully landed once. It's twice told me I was off course when I wasn't. It's early access for sure. Having said that, I believe they'll get it right, eventually. Some of the basic voices, especially those with heavy accents, don't pronounce words worth a damn. What is a rad are? A really cool letter R?😂

So far I like the simplicity of the program but i wish you could minimize the UI rather than it just disappearing from the screen entirely so you don't have to set it up on another monitor. It totally ignores whatever FSLTL is doing but they will have their own traffic injection soon I hope. Like you said I went ahead and purchased early to help infuse them some cash to complete the program. They are listening to what people are suggesting and in the end it will be a great product.

acutally I would say: it does what they promised for the early access. And it is working better than I expected - but it is early access. If someone purchases early access they should expect technical and functional imperfections, that's the way it is - kind of public Alpha or Beta.

great review of this amazing GA aircraft, I have an odd question however, I see at [19:44] you rotated the course heading bug somehow with the mouse, I have been searching the entire controls options section for this key to assign to bind my controls.. could you share this key please.. its not under course or CDI bug ? keep the great work coming..

Hello, where are you flying? I may have missed it. Did you post the checklist ? Thanks. Nice and clear

Excelente.

Came here from the wbsim/jpl discord. Thanks for the tutorial, you are a great teacher. Earned a sub!

Excellent, your a very good teacher. I have over 800 hours in MSFS, and always like coming back to these exercises.

Man you really saved my sanity with this. Thank you so much at last I can use this thing that’s been fixed to my monitor redundant for a year

Thanks, Please expand this VOR knowledge. Nice work! Radios are fun, don't need a magenta line 🙂

Good stuff Kurt! keep it up!

This plane is fantastic. Simple enough for beginners and deep enough for veteran. A great flight model, precise. Best overall plane i have. I owned the tbm 850 blacksquare and the cirrus vision jet. The tbm is much more complex, magnificient, a very good failure model, not as good as the comanche. but a bit more tricky to fly. The cirrus is really fun, a great great feeling with its flight model, maybe too simple to operate, no failure, and a few features missing.

Great video and new subscriber. A couple of questions. Do you need both the Beam Eye-Tracker and Open Track software to achieve the results that you are showing in the video if you already have a Tobii, or just Open Track? Are they any changing that you need to make in the Tobii settings in MSFS with using any of these software packages? Thank you in advance.

Alternatively just use the free NeuralNet input option in OpenTrack. You need to run as an admin for it to appear in the input list. I own a Grass Monkey head tracker which is great, but I just prefer not to have something on my head, and Tobii is far too expensive.

Thank you, Nicely done.

Great minds. I did the same with the carb heat using a usb stick cap for a control knob. Very pleasant review it's real easy listening, cheers Kurt

I noticed certain KZbinrs who didn’t care for Tobii and 3 months later were all about it! I own it and didn’t see what they were excited about. Oh yea, they were sponsored

Really good review. Thank you

Great video I had a love hate relationship with my Tobii but after watching your video it has made it so munch better to uses , Thanks . ,