WolfAir_737

Hi! I'm working on the sounds for levelup these days, and while my personal life has gotten busier, I'm still chipping away at the improvements. This is just a general post for me to update on sounds every once in a while, I unfortunately don't have enough time to track different platforms at once. If there's anything to note about sounds, please let us know over at the discord server and I will probably go through it eventually There were couple of things you all have said already, so I will address them first. Where is the PAX chatter, PA announcements, etc.? Will they be available later? FO callouts are Bri ish??? --When I took over the sounds, the priority for me was to get the essentials done first, as in all sounds of the 737 are heard before I moved on to extras/frills, and that as many sounds necessary to flying works before it got out to the world. There are definitely few quirks that has to be fixed, which I will address below, but hopefully I can start working on these soon and I will share what I am doing. One of the challenges is that the entire soundpack right now stands at around 20 mbs, while if loaded with announcements like audiobird's, the filesize becomes more like 1gb. I will see what I can do to reduce that number. In the very night before release I managed to pack first officer callouts into the soundpack - I know that American voice is a popular requested feature, it has already been implemented! The flap sounds are inaccurate! --They actually are! But also actually not! When I asked about this to Daniela, she told me that it was recorded from the interior of the 738 and as clean as possible, with engines shut off. However, when the engines are shut off, the 737 uses electrically driven pumps which are much slower and makes a lower pitched, different sound like you hear in the soundpack right now. I have added a engine-driven-pump-driven (whatever the official term for this is) flap sound which will play when the engines are running, and the current sounds when the engines are not. They are not as high quality, so I hope to find a better recording in the future. Regardless, for that one person out there who gets a dual engine failure and needs to land, your flap sounds are still accurate There's errors logged in the log.txt! My unassigned button makes a noise! --THIS IS MY BAD!! All of them - as far as I am aware of - has been fixed. The "RTP D off" in all variants plus the gear lever in the -900 (which was probably because I was pulling an all nighter and edited the wrong entry) I'm so incredibly sorry and hopefully there won't be many more of this in the future. If your comment has not been addressed here, please visit our discord and leave a feedback at the feedback channel. With school coming back in session, I will have less time to track discord and especially forums, and it will be easier on me that way. With all that out of the way, I hope you all have a great 2022!

Sorry - I don't track the forum that often. Just saw this; already been fixed for next version

Beautiful!

Heyyyy big hype here!! Old liveries will not work, however transferring liveries to the NG series won't take too much time, as it has a similar UV mapping.

clouds lookin' better and better! nice

Hi, There are some liveries (like default 172, 747, etc.) that seem to use _lit texture files. So here are my questions: 1. Are they actually using those files? 2. If so, is there any easy way to make custom livery "blend" into them? So it's a WolfAir-themed C172 paint. I noticed there's a "_lit.dds" on both fuselage and wings textures. Other liveries have those included, but I don't know if they're making much difference. Thanks in advance!

Zibo is an open source-like freeware while this is fully(ish) featured paid product. I forgot who said it, but both of them will "always be in beta," but when you are paying for something, (especially this hefty 70 dollar price tag) you'd probably expect most of the bugs squashed and delivers on whatever that is promised. There's already a pretty good amount of people working as a beta tester it seems. That would be us for Zibo team. Zibo has his own philosophy of uploading an update every few days or every week. And that works fine. Everyone picks on issues and in the next mini-update that issue is gone. And then next. And so on. However, the ultimate -900 follows a similar philosophy as here, updating less frequently but larger updates that are more stable. That works as well, there won't be a game-breaking issue, at least not much. That would be especially important in things like these, would you pay $70 for a buggy product? I wouldn't. I'm very sure they are fully aware of every bit of the problems they have. They just need some time to squash them, and for that, we just need to wait. There's no need to add more beta testers for the sake of people not screaming at them for the same bugs that others probably reported and devs are aware of. People have asked in-development versions for "testing purposes" when they most likely just want to use a shiny new version not realizing that it's very likely a buggy, broken, incomplete (as xE team makes specific builds for specific things it seems) product. TL;DR Both philosophies work, but in payware stuff, this is probably better, in my opinion. Just wait. It'll be here eventually. I'm excited for this as well. I'm a little poor but I'm probably gonna save up for it anyways

wow wow WOW this is really nice! I see some repetition, but it looks very good so far. Idk if I can dump $70 for it, but it sure looks amazing. sometimes I notice the sunset colors change throughout days. I think I saw it mentioned somewhere but if you guys dynamically determine your sky colors, is that possible? I've seen lack of reddish or purpleish sunset shots, thought i'd ask haha. Great job so far!

This sounds amazing! so far X-Plane feels either a lot like Europe or the United States anywhere in the world I fly. This can be one of the first things to make that change! Good luck, sir!