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From X-Plane Wiki

X-Plane provides three ways to extend the sim:

• You can create new aircraft.
• You can create new scenery.
• You can create plugins for the sim.

Plug-in development

• Aircraft Development

Additive Lighting • Custom Prop Discs • DataRefEditor • Next-Gen Liveries RFC • Performance Tuning Airplanes • Plane-Maker Tips • Sliders

• • 3D Cockpits

  3D Cockpit Lighting • 3D Panel • Manipulators • Manipulators Tips
  

  • Lighting

  3D Cockpit Lighting • Custom Lighting Billboards • Custom Lights • Exterior Aircraft Lighting • Landing Light RFC • Lighting Definitions • Lighting LOD • Multiple Landing Lights • Named Lights
  

  • Panels

  2D Panel Lighting • 2D Panel Lighting Tips • 3D Panel • Generic Instrument Tips • Generic Instruments • Instrument Alignment • Non-Monotone Key Frames • Panel Regions • Panel and Cockpit Terminology • Panels for MS Flight Simulator Authors
  

• RFCs

3d cockpit HUD RFC • Bezier Curves • Draped Roads RFC • Generic Text RFC • Instrument Animation RFC • Landing Light RFC • Next-Gen Liveries RFC • Prop Disc RFC

• Scenery Development

Advanced Airport Customization • Anatomy of the X-Plane Scenery System • Calculating Rendering Load • DataRefEditor • Scenery System Frequently Asked Questions • Scenery System for MSFS Developers

• • Modeling

  Flat Shading And Normal Maps • Normal Maps
  

  • Scenery Tools Development

  Scenery Tools Bug Database • X-Plane Scenery Tools Development