FS9 portovers...

[DaveWG]

work! No more disappearing props behind clouds. Self shadowing appears to work as well, both external and VC.

Ricks Chippie:

 

[Lionheart]

However, older gauges that use GAU's that are from the FS2002 and before era will not work.

 

[stansdds]

This is good information, even though my computer is not DX11 capable, one day, one glorious day, I might build a new computer and be able to join the P3D club.

 

[Dangerous Beans]

Unfortunately the Zero in the old Shockwave/A2A WWII Fighters pack doesn't work, P3D2 just crashes when I try to load it

 

[Roger]

That has to be clever manipulation of shaders and maybe more....I may have to go V2 for Oliver's Ju52!

 

[Daube]

That has to be clever manipulation of shaders and maybe more....I may have to go V2 for Oliver's Ju52!

AH!! Now that's a good point, that didn't come to my mind at first.
When I first read that topic, I thought something like "yeah that's great, but seriously, who's going to use FS9 addons in P3D?".
I still have quite a lot of FS9 models archives on my storage harddrive. When I tried to remember about a few planes, none of them were really worth the effort of bringing them to P3D. But that Ju-52 (and a few others) is an exception. An excellent exception.

Thanks for that reminder.

 

[tommieboy]

No more disappearing props behind clouds.

From exterior views too?

Tommy

 

[Naismith]

Now that is a major improvement, good to hear.

 

[Daube]

Yes.
In P3Dv2, the FS9 portovers get exterior shadows, virtual cockpit shadows, and the props appear correctly in front of the clouds.
Here is a quick test with Oliver Fischer Ju-52. I installed it a bit to fast and forgot to update the window textures, sorry for that.

You can see the shadows casted on the panel:

And here you can see the props correctly appearing in front of a cumulus. You can even see the aircraft self-shadow.

Strange thing is: the aircraft self-shadow appears only when flying BELOW a certain altitude. If you go too high, the shadow dissapears. VC shadow seem to be ok anytime, though...

 

[Roger]

Excellent!

 

[tommieboy]

Yes.
In P3Dv2, the FS9 portovers get exterior shadows, virtual cockpit shadows, and the props appear correctly in front of the clouds....

WOW! FSX RIP! Time for me to state saving up for a new computer to run P3D.

Tommy