• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Why Plug-Ins?

falcon409

falcon409

Moderator
Staff member
If there is one thing that I would like to see done away with it's these irritating plug-ins. Why in the world did anyone think making a plug-in to "slew" was better than just including that function in the Sim. X-Plane has not just suddenly appeared. . .it's been around for a long time and I suspect that many of the long-time members were transfers from FSX or even P3D . . . .didn't they bring any ideas with them? lol

At some point everyone uses the slew mode, even if it's just to turn an aircraft on it's axis. Even after installing the plug-in you have to configure it (obviously) before it'll work. . . .just make it part of the Sim. . .UUUgh! I am really enjoying X-Plane for the most part, but in terms of it's functionality (being user friendly) in some areas. . .it sucks.
 
There is also no key or function for muting all sounds. And loading the aircraft in the air is not supported.


But well, you can't think of everything.
 
falcon409 said:
If there is one thing that I would like to see done away with it's these irritating plug-ins. Why in the world did anyone think making a plug-in to "slew" was better than just including that function in the Sim. X-Plane has not just suddenly appeared. . .it's been around for a long time and I suspect that many of the long-time members were transfers from FSX or even P3D . . . .didn't they bring any ideas with them? lol

At some point everyone uses the slew mode, even if it's just to turn an aircraft on it's axis. Even after installing the plug-in you have to configure it (obviously) before it'll work. . . .just make it part of the Sim. . .UUUgh! I am really enjoying X-Plane for the most part, but in terms of it's functionality (being user friendly) in some areas. . .it sucks.
Click to expand...

Agree, but much better than XP-10. Had to dump that one.
 
I agree ,but what I do like about the "plug-in" method, is that if you don't like a plug-in, you just remove it from the folder, and it will not affect X-Plane itself.

FSX always needed some extra "messing around" when you tried uninstalling an add-on. In the worst case you would have to re-install the complete sim.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top