IXEG 733 Development Picking Up Pace

A fortnight ago, IXEG spoke up of the status of the aircraft, primarily surrounding a conversion tool and implementation of the scroll wheel to turn knobs.

More Progress on IXEG 737 Update
More Progress on IXEG 737 Update

Now, the developer has successfully converted all objects using the new Toolchain, and has mentioned the use of Substance Painter.

"[...] with the upgrading of our assets, we finally have a workflow between 3D and Substance Painter® for texturing," wrote Tom Kyler on the X-Pilot forum last Thursday. "In this screenshot the glare shield has a bit of a texture to it, nothing major, but adds to the immersion that's so important to us. We'll be able to start sharpening up several 3D elements that are a bit low-res by todays standards."

No less than one day later did Kyler confirm all objects were successfully converted.

In Thursday's post, he also stated further plans for the aircraft: "The roadmap after this 3D conversion is to then convert the sounds to FMOD, upgrade the 3D a bit, including a revised cabin and working doors and make any adjustments required by the X-Plane flight model itself for stability and we'll probably put out an update then.

"Then I'll move back to the FMS to finish up my integration of the XP1100 data format and get the holds integrated, the VNAV cleaned up and several other FMS polish work."

A "quickie adjustment" to the left cockpit window handle, which Kyler said took 15 minutes

Kyler admitted, however, development updates may be silent for the next few weeks. "Not because we're not working on it, we definitely are, but the conversion of sounds to FMOD is going to be a very intense task," Kyler explained.

"We wrote our own sound engine before X-Plane adopted FMOD....and our system is quite versatile and very quick to add sounds in code, but its also based on OpenAL, which is going away in XPlane 12 IIRC."

There are 1,400 lines of code controlling the various sound systems for the aircraft; each one needs to be revised to work with FMOD.

"We will chip away each day on this task until its done and report back as we progress."

As these updates are posted, Threshold will be sure to report on them.

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