KPHX Preview Thread - Part 1

by **Mir // FlightBeam** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:19 pm

We're well into the production of KPHX - Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl, and the outlook is very good.

We're implementing several new technologies into KPHX. The first one will be ramp and terminal textures 2-3 times the size of KSFO textures. These are massive texture sheets we're creating with precise hand crafted shadows for your viewing pleasure. Don't worry... performance will still be excellent!

Here's a quick preview of a US Airways NGX parked at gate A20 at PHX, direct screenshot from FSX. Immediately you will notice the huge jump of quality from KSFOX. We're producing an unprecedented amount of detail into all the terminal buildings. However the work is still in progress as you can see from the top bump map. Stay tuned here and the forums for future news and screenshots.

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by **Thunderbird Fan** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:07 am

WOW!!!

that looks awesome, keep up the good work.

by **01pewterz28** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:19 am

WOW outstanding I love the detail on the building looks pretty darn real looking forward to seeing some photos of the airport and the overpass taxigaw bridges.

Sean

by **cosnowboarder_777** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:41 pm

Looks excellent, can't wait for this one!

by **Silverbird** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:26 pm

wow Mir! it looks amazing I'm so glade you have came back to work in flight simulator I know there not much profit in it and its shame but people like you take a boring default place into in amazing sight to see, after being a few hours up in the air. I feel a shame saying I haven't gotten your ksfo yet but I promise I will soon I really hope you make a ton of more scenery's in the future.

by **KampfHase** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:40 pm

The shadows are looking awesome

by **signmanbob** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:57 pm

It's looking great! Love your KSFO and will be looking forward to KPHX too. Keep up the great work.

Bob

by **ricky76** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:29 pm

Fantastic!! I love KSFO, so this is sure to be a gem for sure. Great work MIR!. My CC is at the ready.

by **VX4Ever** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:44 pm

I'm going to be honest, since KLAX is not out from FSDreamteam yet, I think my favorite Co. payware is Flightbeam! Keep up the good work Mr.

by **Aidan** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:26 am

Really Cool! Cannot wait for this release, thats for sure.

by **B777ER** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:03 am

Mir,

Well done! Another must buy. Make for some good short hops between this one, your SFO and FSDT's LAX and (abliet older) LAS.

by **PUP4ORD** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 6:40 am

Great start going forward!!!

by **Orion** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:05 pm

Looks nice!

by **Spencer_TAGF** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:21 pm

Wow Mir that looks wonderful! When I first saw the picture I actually thought that was from your camera of your on site trip to there but WOW.

by **sleddriver** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:11 am

Wow! Hey, Mir. This is awesome. I was born and raised in the Phoenix desert, and was so excited to hear that you decided to do PHX. I worked the ramp for America West for two years, and can honestly say that this pic is spot on. Can't wait!!! Thank you soooo much for giving PHX its due.

Chris

by **brad9825** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:42 am

hey what are you going to do with the construction site right in the middle of the parking garages, ive lived in az all my life and thats been there for like 10 years

by **Mir // FlightBeam** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:27 pm

brad9825 wrote:hey what are you going to do with the construction site right in the middle of the parking garages,

I'm assuming you're talking about the new Airport Tram under construction. I will be modeling and simulating the completed tram, as if construction was finished. The airport officials have already revealed their plans about the actual plan and the look of the cars.

by **bkircher** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:18 pm

WOW!!!

by **jordanal** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:28 pm

Cool, can't wait for product # 2

by **Highiron** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:28 pm

I'm hoping that one of the new improvements includes addition of red obstruction lights on the buildings and light towers. This is something that is missing in all airport add-ons, not sure why, frame rates perhaps. They are very noticeable at night when flying into airports as they are on every antennae, light tower, terminal buildings, hangars and parkades. It's one of the items that when missing, takes something away from the immersion of the airport at night. I'm hoping KPHX will be the first to implement this important and always overlooked aspect of airports.

Cheers,
Thad

by **feer** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:07 pm

looks great fb regards feer.

by **Paradox** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:32 am

This looks amazing. Love the quality. I'm ready to buy

by **Silverbird** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:40 pm

HI Mir I admire your work as in artist so I was wondering today are you going to replace your baggage carts and the tugs push-back with your models? would be cool to see some tow bars around the ramp something some developers forget to put on the ramp. that's usually there in real life working as a former ramp worker myself its cool too see some for the equipment around, that extra detail makes a difference

When running the ksfo demo I was surprised to see some of the default models and was bummed out I could imagine you didn't have enough time for it but it adds a ton of realism to the area I could also understand it taken a toll on frame rates but I guess you could give the option not too install them, again this is just a humble suggestion and figured I should ask now while your developing phoenix.

by **Bruce Hamilton** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:10 am

With programs like AES and the forthcoming GSX using their own, would seem like a lot of needless work to replace the defaults with custom models, but thats just my opinion.

by **Silverbird** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:43 am

Bruce Hamilton wrote:With programs like AES and the forthcoming GSX using their own, would seem like a lot of needless work to replace the defaults with custom models, but thats just my opinion.

Hello Bruce Ill have to disagree with you on this one lol but not like the republicans and democrats hehe while I have aes myself its a bit different since what I'm talking about are static objects not animated like in aes I believe the surrounding custom objects adds allot of realism and visuals to the scenery having worked at a real ramp there can be many objects around like the tow bar sometimes a ground power unit parked stuff like that of course its easier said then done but figured maybe Mir might be able to add some in at a later time with kphx being in development.

by **ricky76** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:16 pm

Hey MIR,

No pressure here at all, but any new pics or news on PHX? After using SFO I am very excited to see Sky Harbour.

BTW, I am not sure how to become a varified customer as I purchased KSFO from this site via paypal. Just want to make sure you know I'm not a Pirate! Arrrrr mayteee!!
Cheers.

by **Aidan** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:21 am

Hey ricky.
Selected Verifed Customer

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by **ricky76** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:51 am

Got it! Thanks Aidan.

by **Mir // FlightBeam** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:25 pm

Sorry gents, KSFO FS9 has been keeping me quite busy. I will be jumping back to Phoenix very shortly!

Ricky, you should now have status, thanks for your patience! 8-)

by **ricky76** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:37 pm

No worries Mir. I'm sure KPHX will be well worth the wait after using your KSFO.

I now have varified status. Thanks for the help Mir.

Cheers.

by **BoazDK** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:56 am

Yes Phoenix is gonna rock

by **CEOEAV** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:32 am

Any update?

by **BoazDK** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:28 pm

None at the moment, the crew is working hard!

I am sure you will see a post here as soon as flightbeam has new work to share

by **ricky76** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:36 pm

If its even remotely close to the satisfaction I get from KSFO, I'll be happy! Doesn't KPHX have taxiway bridges! That will be new for me.

A little off topic here, but has there been any consideration towards making a/some Canadian airports? As a Canuck myself, I'd love to see some of our major hubs get the Flightbeam treatment! CYVR perhaps... Nudge nudge wink wink!

Cheers.

PS. I live in the lower mainland of Vancouver and would be more than willing to do some photo trips. I have many friends that can get me airside for pics.

by **coryb13** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:31 pm

ricky76 wrote:If its even remotely close to the satisfaction I get from KSFO, I'll be happy! Doesn't KPHX have taxiway bridges! That will be new for me.

A little off topic here, but has there been any consideration towards making a/some Canadian airports? As a Canuck myself, I'd love to see some of our major hubs get the Flightbeam treatment! CYVR perhaps... Nudge nudge wink wink!

Cheers.

PS. I live in the lower mainland of Vancouver and would be more than willing to do some photo trips. I have many friends that can get me airside for pics.

FSDreamTeam has "announced" they are working on Vancouver here: http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=4901.0

by **ricky76** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:13 pm

coryb13 wrote:
ricky76 wrote:If its even remotely close to the satisfaction I get from KSFO, I'll be happy! Doesn't KPHX have taxiway bridges! That will be new for me.

A little off topic here, but has there been any consideration towards making a/some Canadian airports? As a Canuck myself, I'd love to see some of our major hubs get the Flightbeam treatment! CYVR perhaps... Nudge nudge wink wink!

Cheers.

PS. I live in the lower mainland of Vancouver and would be more than willing to do some photo trips. I have many friends that can get me airside for pics.

FSDreamTeam has "announced" they are working on Vancouver here: http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=4901.0

I have seen the announcement Cory. That is indeed great news! As I have not yet tried an FSDT product, I am on the fence as far as performance is concerned. I primarily fly the NGX, and the very first major intl. airport I have purchased was FB's KSFO. And I get mid 20's performance with full right sliders.

by **sticky1202** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:49 am

FSDT does have a free trial version to download to see how you like it.

Jim

by **BoazDK** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:10 am

Fsdreamteam are quite focused on keeping frame rates at a low. I think their LAX and Zurich are highly impressive and equally sports fine performance!
As Jim suggested, try out one of their demos.

by **coryb13** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:43 pm

BoazDK wrote:Fsdreamteam are quite focused on keeping frame rates at a low. I think their LAX and Zurich is highly impressive and equally sports fine performance!
As Jim suggested, try out one of their demos.

Definitely. Download the trial of LAX, you'll be extremely impressed with the quality and performance.

by **Thunderbird Fan** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:37 pm

Any more preview pics?

by **sleddriver** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:13 pm

Hey, just curious to know how PHX is coming along. Getting a bit anxious about this one, since its my hometown airport. Thanks.

Chris

by **Thunderbird Fan** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:21 pm

Lack of a reply about the progress of KPHX is not instilling much confidence.

by **hero93** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:30 pm

I think Mir was busy because of the KSFO Box release.

by **Silverbird** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:29 am

Hmm we haven't heard anything from Mir in awhile Mir you doing ok?

by **phenocom** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:57 am

Silverbird wrote:Hmm we haven't heard anything from Mir in awhile Mir you doing ok?

How are things going with KPHX ?

Can you show us any more screenshots?

by **Gunfighter11** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:52 am

Alright people-please refer to the history of this thread.

Keep in mind the following-its Christmas and the holiday season. Traditionally people are winding down to take some time off and enjoy some well deserved time with family. That would explain a lack of response.

Mir said Phoenix would be put on hold pending the release of the FS2004 version of SFO-he s still in the process of ironing it out, but I am sure Phoenix is well on its way.
Just give it time, and he will post when he can.

by **Silverbird** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:55 am

Gunfighter11 wrote:Alright people-please refer to the history of this thread.

Keep in mind the following-its Christmas and the holiday season. Traditionally people are winding down to take some time off and enjoy some well deserved time with family. That would explain a lack of response.

Mir said Phoenix would be put on hold pending the release of the FS2004 version of SFO-he s still in the process of ironing it out, but I am sure Phoenix is well on its way.
Just give it time, and he will post when he can.

Yes I understand that but he's last post was in oct it seems he's doing ok since he just posted the 30% off for ksfo posted the Dec 20th as for me I was just wondering about how he was doing not about phx since I know that takes time to build its all good glade Mir is doing ok.

by **Thunderbird Fan** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:53 pm

Alright people-please refer to the history of this thread.

Also refer to the news section dated 9/2/2011.

Stay tuned here and the forums for future news and screenshots.

That hasn't happened in three months, so I think questions and statements about having concerns over a product being advertised are valid. Far as I can tell no ones asked for a release date, just an update about whats being advertised. FSDreamteam does an excellent job keeping it's customers up to date on progress of their products. Flytampa not so good. They have been around longer than FSDreamteam and I own more FSDreamteam mostly because they keep in much better contact with it's customer base which instils more confidence in a product and it's support.
I have no doubt KPHX will be an excellent product and don't care about a release date, but a short post saying things are progressing well would satisfy many if in fact that is the case.

by **AlaskaCapt** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:50 am

Y all think Mir can just crap out a good product. It takes time and he will get to it when he gets to it. As a BETA the FSX machine as a whole has really finicky coding, and he s just a one man operation. Give it time.

by **FDX240** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:43 pm

Well Mir is doing ok. He is very busy lately with family matters! But i am sure he will post a update as to what is going on with KPHX. When time permite's I know as a Beta tester for Mir it has taken him a while to get back to me about KSFO for FS2004, When it was in the beta stage it started with 2 of us. Then the 1 guy dropped out and the rest was left up to me. And he stated that work and family comes first. But keep your head up and i am sure he will pop up when we are not expecting it??? Any how Merry Xmas to all and all a good nite.Keith FDX240 8-)

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