03/12/2012 – Updates
03/01/2012
Hi Everyone. Happy New Year!
Below is an excerpt of what I posted in the CYVR Support Forum this morning:
“Glad you are enjoying the scenery, and let me thank you all for the wonderful response it has had since release. In about 10 days, the scenery has racked up just under 4000 downloads on avsim alone. I Couldn’t have imagined such a positive response! Thank you!
There will soon be a v1.1 update released which will address a number of issues:
+Textures: The update will include a number of reworked textures to better find a median point between quality and performance. This will include more DXT3 and 1 textures in place of 32bit textures, and some increase in mip mapped textures. The update will not be able to please everyone, as the original release couldn’t, but I am hoping this update will provide the right balance. Still expect to see 32bit textures at night, and on certain textures where I could not afford to lose the quality.
+Autogen Issue The update will include some sort of fix for the disappearing autogen issue some users have had.
+Gate Numbering During the beta, the gate numbers on B and C Pier were changed at the last moment to reflect the real airport as of this month. However, in a typical freeware development gaffe, the numbers were only changed on the ground, not on the buildings themselves. This will be fixed in the update.
+Little Things There are a few little things here and there that will be fixed in the update, like the odd incorrect taxi sign, street sign, etc.
+AES Support I am in the process of contacting Oliver and Aerosoft re: AES Support
Once again, thank you everyone for your support – I can’t express how happy I am that the scenery has been received as well as it has. Stay tuned for the update some time in the next couple weeks.“
So that is where we stand with YVR at this time. Again, let me reiterate how pleased I am with the response from the FS community about the scenery, it really has been a labour of love and to see everyone generally pleased with it is very rewarding!
I am working on a couple other projects at the moment which are at various degrees of completion. I will post more about those when the time is right.
Regards,
Jon Gabbert
excellent work! can’t wait for the AES support! this is truly a fantastic job and probably the best represented airport in Canada for FS9 as far as quality. I am hoping one of those updates is status of CYWG. especially with the quality of CYVR. again, awesome job!
Just wanted to say THANK YOU for this work you have done. I have been waiting to fly into CYVR and as soon as it was downloaded I flew from CANUKs CYYC into CYVR and was not dissapointed.