FTX vai fazer um aeroporto do Brasil.

Hello everyone,

My FTX Global announcement topic posted a few months ago has been the most viewed topic in Orbx forum history with over 70,000 views, so clearly anticipation is extremely high for the release of this product.

I'm pleased to say that FTXG has now entered alpha stage with the first full build to be released to a limited number of testers over the weekend. The installer weighs in at about 4.5GB and has a disk footprint of about 8.5GB but that will change as we move to beta and RTM.

Here are some more clarification points I can share at this time:

1. We are aiming for a June 15th release. That is my birthday, so it's a good deadline to aim for

2. The base FTXG product will cost AU$99.95 and will include a huge number of *brand new* textures never seen before in any FTX region which specifically address Eastern Europe, Asia, North and South America and Africa. These new textures have taken over six months to produce. The base product also include five seasons, a combo of the old and new night lighting systems, custom autogen textures and vegetation and some autogen objects

3. The base product will include a FREE demo of FTX Global OpenLC, which is our new product being released in July/August that covers the *entire world* with OSM based custom landclass and vector data! FTX Global OpenLC will be priced as a AU$19.95 addon, but the base FTXG will include the entire Baltic States in eastern Europe as a free demo of OpenLC to allow you to try before you buy.

4. We have begun work on FTX Airports for FTX Global, one in France, one in Brazil, one in the Philipines and more planned. These airports will work with both FSX Default and FTX Global

5. We will soon begin showing screenshots by alpha testers and myself from all around the world, particularly from areas not shown yet.

6. The FTX Global base product will not include any mesh, custom POI objects or any other content other than textures, autogen, night lighting and the OpenLC demo area.

7. We won't be releasing the "Plus Pack" announced earlier; instead we will release small addons as part of the FTX Global product line such as OpenLC, airports, cityscapes, bundles of POI 3D models and many other enhancements that you can purchase a la carte. These will be priced from $4.99 through to $29.99 - we want to make these addons as affordable as possible so the average FTXG addon price will be about $10-15

8. Right now when FTX Global is installed, it replaces the FSX Default and you switch to it using FTX Central. This means that until we solve technical issues around lclookup.bgl and other files, FTX Global is not seamlessly compatible with our FTX Central regions of North America, Oceania and Europe - however that is how it works right now in the alpha build but we will work very hard to remove the need to switch regions before release. If we can't solve that problem at the release, it will be done shortly after. It is in our interest, our customers' interest and other developers' interest to remove all incompatibilities but it's not a trivial task.

EDIT: just a timeline based on some questions further down in this topic:

First task is to give you all the basic pack; the textures and autogen and LC demo area so you can go play

Second task is to make the base pack work seamlessly with our FTX regions and FTX Central

Third task is to give you great OSM based landclass for the whole world

After that we will continually add new FTXG content at very low price points.

I will post another update in June when we enter beta testing.

Fonte: Forum da FTX

Só imagino como vai ser esse FTX Airport para o FTX Global, se é algo na qualidade Orbx ou só algo mediano pra complementar o Global.

Mesmo assim ótima notícia, ganha ponto pelo post.

Obrigado Paulo,

E parece que o Global está próximo, pois ele pretende lançar em seu aniversário que é agora em junho.

Não sei o que é mais esperado, esse FTXG ou o T7 da PMDG...

Só não entendi do que se trata esse tal de OpenLC, alguem poderia clarificar aqui pra gente?

Que show! Totalmente dispensável ficar citando o quão bem feito será o FTXG e o aeroporto tupiniquim que for feito.

Leber escreveu:Não sei o que é mais esperado, esse FTXG ou o T7 da PMDG...

Só não entendi do que se trata esse tal de OpenLC, alguem poderia clarificar aqui pra gente?

Pelo o que eu entendi, parece que vai ser um programa que faz tipo um foto real do local.

OpenLC = Landclass from Openstreetmaps.

Franham escreveu:

Leber escreveu:Não sei o que é mais esperado, esse FTXG ou o T7 da PMDG...

Só não entendi do que se trata esse tal de OpenLC, alguem poderia clarificar aqui pra gente?

Pelo o que eu entendi, parece que vai ser um programa que faz tipo um foto real do local.

OpenLC = Landclass from Openstreetmaps.

Faz todo sentido sua explicação.

Obrigado Franham !

Esse OpenLC pode ser um sonho completo hein! Será que vai ser bem feitinho mesmo? Uma pena é a ausência de detalhamentos como pontes características, parques, lagoas certinhas e etc...

Demais, tomara que saia um aqui do sul do Brasil!!!