Fortunately, you can swap in any sky colors you want. X-Plane’s sky is nice, but I find their sunsets a bit cartoonish. You just place them into your Resources/bitmaps/world/clouds folder. I like the clouds in Environment+ (just the clouds - I don’t use the lua script, which kills my FPS). There are many, many weather plugins for X-Plane, but I like simply replacing the default clouds with better ones. Tip: You can edit the config file for Ortho4XP to automatically create higher-resolution tiles immediately around airports - it’s an easy way to have Zoom Level 16 tiles for general travel but Zoom Level 18 at airports. areas, I use Google, Bing, Arc, or USA_2 photo sources. You may as well go all in and put the right textures on that model. One of the amazing things about X-Plane is that it models the entire world. Now that I’ve logged a jillion hours or so flying my Pixel Plane, I can share a few things to make your X-Plane experience even more awesome, and possibly encourage your loved ones to think you’re even weirder than they previously thought:ĭownload Ortho4XP and create your own photorealistic scenery. These are the weird things you end up doing when you have an X-Plane addiction I turn my head to the right and the view follows.
When I turn my head to the left, the Piper’s cockpit view on my laptop screen rotates left. Two rubber bands affix my iPhone to my cap’s bill. “Uh, why is your iPhone strapped to your head?” It’s the hat I never wear, the one I bought not because I wanted a Daytona Beach cap but because my scalp was sunburned and I wanted to comb my hair without it hurting. I’m sitting in the living room with my laptop on my knees, my green Daytona Beach cap slumped on my head.