Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The final step.

Now, after 4 working months, we are finishing "ZurichX" project and at this stage we are busy working on testing, in order to add details, avoid mistakes and obtain the best design of the airport. As you know, we started working with the FSX version and that has helped us a lot, in terms of best results and high frame rate, since we think frame rate is the most important aspect of an addon for Flight Simulator.

Now we are quite satisfied because we reached great FPS and the hub is easy to be used for both ground and air operations, especially in the fs9 version (at the moment in development) where the memory is used in a lighter way, and it's possible to be very speedy. Just to give you an idea, ZurichX has got 2 frames less than a small fsx airport, but this is Zurich, not a nice little airport on an Island, and we haven't finished the work yet.


You will note the differences between the two versions only during the flight, as regards Bump Mapping, specular and other typical FSX effects. We are now at a difficult stage of the production, because there are many details, vehicles, signs, and custom objects that will grant a full immesion effect and that we will add only at the end, so that they will be used with more than a LOD without spoiling the great frame rate.

As regards the publisher we haven't decided yet, but we are receiving lots of proposals. The product will be published next october approximately the 15th. We are sure that AES on fs9 version could be a good idea, but it's still early to put it, maybe we will introduce it later, because it takes some addictional work and we don't want the product to be published too late. Anyway, in the next future thinghs could change.

We will let you know about every decision we are taking,
thanks a lot for your help and enthusiasm.

the staff.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

You nean October of this year...right?

Francesco Pacchioni said...

of course! :-)

NotesfromtheBarn said...

Thanks for such detailed updates.. If only all developers/publishers could be so clear about whats happening!!

Vigilius said...

Mi mancherà questo blog, spero ne farete per i prossimi prodotti in modo da vedere chiaramente cosa farete e come lo realizzerete. Per me la trasparenza alla fine paga!

Francesco Pacchioni said...

Bè il blog vive di sicuro fino al giorno del rilascio e anche oltre, anche perchè abbiamo tante cose da mostrare che stiamo sviluppando ora. Poi vediamo se usare sempre questo per i nuovi progetti o crearne uno nuovo. Il problema è l'indirizzo che è legato a un nome. vedremo.

Thomas_Binz said...

Dear Developpers

As we don't know who exactly is correct member to ask we kindly ask for compatibilty with other addons as SwissFlight 2007 which we use in the Swiss Airforcecenter. If possible we would com in contact, please see www.737.ch.

Anonymous said...

Will the FS9 and FSX versions be available in October, or just FSX?

Francesco Pacchioni said...

FS9 and FSX version will be available on same time. from about 2 weeks.