Aerofly Life Project - Version 1.7 NOW AVAILABLE !

drhotwing1 (IPACS) · March 10, 2019 at 6:08 PM Official Post

Greetings everyone,

It's here, the next version of my 'Aerofly Life' project!

I've added plenty of new goodies for everyone to enjoy since the initial release. Listing everything new would be boring so I would like to see who the most observant individuals are; can you spot the changes?

Click on this LINK to install Aerofly Life V1.7. Use the download icon to begin download

This is still in progress so look out for even more updates and fixes soon.

To install, download the file, unzip it into your documents/Aerofly FS2 scenery/places folder and head on over to your favorite South Florida airport.

NOTE- Please make sure that you completely remove Aerofly Life 1.0 if you already have it installed. Also, as I haven't released all of the airport locations yet, this demo is only for the following airports; Key West International, Key West NAS, Marathon, Tavernaero, Ocean Reef, and ARB. More will come soon!

I hope you enjoy this taste of the future

Fabs79 · March 10, 2019 at 6:15 PM

Fantastic!

Thuster · March 10, 2019 at 6:30 PM

kenventions · March 10, 2019 at 6:39 PM

Very encouraging Jeff!

Can you comment on performance impact? I'm guessing it's not much but will the traffic density be adjustable?

Also looking forward to the HOW-TO guide which will probably be the most popular question you'll get over the next 24 hours

zneumak · March 10, 2019 at 6:41 PM

Cool! I'm really looking forward

drhotwing1 (IPACS) · March 10, 2019 at 6:47 PM Official Post

Quote from kenventions

Very encouraging Jeff!
Can you comment on performance impact? I'm guessing it's not much but will the traffic density be adjustable?
Also looking forward to the HOW-TO guide which will probably be the most popular question you'll get over the next 24 hours

Absolutely NO performance impact seen in VR and 2D respectively. There will be no density sliders at this time. I will only add the traffic according to how those areas are in the real locations (well, maybe even a little bit less than that even). Not all roads will have traffic but I will provide enough for it to be convincing and noticeable near each of the airports and scenic locations. In this infant stage a lot of this has to be done manually but I did write some Maxscripts to assist in the population of vehicles. I will explain all of this in detail down the road a bit.

I do plan to add a tutorial so that anyone can do this but there are a few limitations due to a problem with autoheight in some locations

y905 · March 10, 2019 at 6:58 PM

Amazing !!!!!

Chiefkoch · March 10, 2019 at 6:58 PM

That's really cool!

uoutoftoon · March 10, 2019 at 7:23 PM

This is some great news indeed! Jeff, you hinted a while back you were beginning to investigate animated traffic so this is heartening to hear you have made headway. No doubt a wonderful addition to the Aerofly experience so thanks for your efforts already.

If I am correct, it appears you will be laying traffic over photoreal roads, which though currently lower res than those fake roads of other sims, to me it is preferred in the long run as, in my opinion, it will just get better as the quality and resolution of photo real improves in the future.

FournierRF5 · March 10, 2019 at 7:41 PM

These are amazing news for Aerofly, especially if it really has no performance impact! It should finally make all the critics speechless who still say AFS performance is only so good because of the world beeing lifeless. You are definitely on the road (literally) to making the best flight simulator ever. Fantastic!

Regards

Martin

HerveF · March 10, 2019 at 7:43 PM

Great news Jeff ! Wow ! Looking forwards...

HiFlyer · March 10, 2019 at 7:59 PM

ZoSoChile · March 10, 2019 at 8:23 PM

Bringing life to AF2 and allowing users down the road to create their own traffic is on my top list. Jeff you are the man! Thank you for your efforts. Just made my day

StoneChain · March 10, 2019 at 8:58 PM

That sounds and looks amazing! Thank you for all the work you do for this community.

Any chance of a video of "life in action"?

juan37 · March 10, 2019 at 10:41 PM

Wow! a Super News, Thanks for your effort brother!

drhotwing1 (IPACS) · March 10, 2019 at 10:59 PM Official Post

Quote from StoneChain

Any chance of a video of "life in action"?

I'll do better than that. Just give me a couple more days

WarpedWing · March 10, 2019 at 11:01 PM

A wonderful start to a very good thing... Thanks

kenventions · March 10, 2019 at 11:34 PM

Maybe it will look something like this ...

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CaptChaos · March 11, 2019 at 4:04 AM

Someone posted the first picture in a group on facebook with a link to here. I thought that looks very 3d. Awesome job.

TomSimMuc · March 11, 2019 at 8:26 AM

This is, what I was waiting for since long time.

I yet saw, what a difference it already made with moving wind generator mills.

I am looking forward to be able to insert animated vehicles into my own scenery.

Aerofly Life Project - Version 1.7 NOW AVAILABLE !

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