Prepar3D V5 releasing April 14th

[Daube]

The improvements to clouds are very welcome. It was about time they get rid of these ugly 2D clouds...
Maybe now the famous bug of the disappearing cloud shadows at some view angle has gone as well ? I sure hope so...
I'm also very curious about any improvements to performances, autogen loading, terrain blurries etc... The current VR implementation (in P3Dv4, I mean) is good enough for me. I just hope for more stability and smoothness (performance).

Concerning addon compatibility, it appears most of the P3Dv4 compatible aircrafts might also work in v5 ?
What about sceneries ?

Only bad thing: despite the annoucements, in these videos the water looks just as terrible as ever...

Ah, GODRAYS !

[YoYo]

The improvements to clouds are very welcome. It was about time they get rid of these ugly 2D clouds...

Yep, this is nice (and not REX/HiFi yet):

[YoYo]

[Live Article] Developer Statements on Prepar3D v5 Product Compatibility

https://fselite.net/originals/live-a...compatibility/

[Navy Chief]

[Live Article] Developer Statements on Prepar3D v5 Product Compatibility


https://fselite.net/originals/live-a...compatibility/

That all sounds positive! Thank you, YoYo!

[YoYo]

Next good news (for VR users) - VR support not worse than in P3Dv4.5.

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewt...211928#p211918

[YoYo]

See this: http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/ind...c,23309.0.html Nice!

[Manschy]

Just because of the clouds (and weatherengine?) it's worth getting it...

[Mach3DS]

Nothing is going to look like MS2020 until eveything in the game adopts Ray Tracing. The Terrain looks way better. The Lighting looks way better, and so do the Clouds. TruSky is welcome. I agree with Matt above. I don't think anyone knows the full scope of what "3rd Party Dev" will be with 2020 yet. I have a feeling that P3D will remain the more viable option. I've heard rumors that the main developer of the sim for MS doesn't want 3rd party devs at all. They want to do it all.