**** Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread ****

2StepSteve said:
I can't wait for this.

I've stopped watching the YT vids that are being pumped out now though, as it's just spoiling it for me. I want to experience seeing these places for the first time, not watch all the places I want to fly over spoilt in a video!
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Yeah, same here. Watched a couple of vids but want to discover the rest for myself. Roll on the 18th.
 
JGBR said:
Personally, I am looking forward to seeing everyones GPU's break into a sweat and everyone clamour to buy next gen graphics cards...
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It's definitely making my 1080 work hard, having said that I am happy with the performance out of it still and hoping to hold out until 4xxx cards.

Might not be saying that once the Reverb G2 arrives though :D
 
The City only vaguely looks like what they have.
It's clear that they're using the same kind of "generic" buildings that exist in say Xplane for the majority of standard builds, and have then added in good representations of the most obvious buildings. It's not any worse than any other sim I've seen, but people shouldn't be expecting full and exact renditions of what is really out there, as it's just not going to be the case.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
The City only vaguely looks like what they have.
It's clear that they're using the same kind of "generic" buildings that exist in say Xplane for the majority of standard builds, and have then added in good representations of the most obvious buildings. It's not any worse than any other sim I've seen, but people shouldn't be expecting full and exact renditions of what is really out there, as it's just not going to be the case.
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If you are referring to London yes, that’s exactly right (as it stands) as bizarrely there is no 3D map data for bing of London... or in fact any of the U.K. as far as I’m aware. Although it’s a lot better done than base scenery in eg Xplane. Basically the AI is trying to recognise what is a building, tree, road, grass area etc from the 2D data and then populate it with more or less generic assets accordingly. I say more or less generic as with buildings for example it tries to match the footprint shape, recognise the type of building, materials, typical architecture for the area and for example if it sees eg a red roof it will put a red roof on it! So it is generic in the sense that it is just a sim created asset rather than a true representation of the real world, but it's so much better than typical autogen.

Where they have the 3D map data you get a much more accurate representation that holds up pretty well even up close. Fly around one of the photogrammetry cities and that feels truly “next gen”.

I don’t know if there is a reason why they don’t have any 3D mapping of the U.K., but one assumes in general the quality of some currently 2D mapped areas will improve over the 10yr lifecycle they were talking about as they incorporate mapping updates into the sim with their “world” updates.
 
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One thing I haven't noticed in any of the preview vids - what happened to all the wildlife? In the earlier preview trailers there were birds, elephants, giraffes and all sorts.
 
Zeeflyboy said:
If you are referring to London yes, that’s exactly right (as it stands) as bizarrely there is no 3D map data for bing of London... or in fact any of the U.K. as far as I’m aware. Although it’s a lot better done than base scenery in eg Xplane. Basically the AI is trying to recognise what is a building, tree, road, grass area etc from the 2D data and then populate it with more or less generic assets accordingly. I say more or less generic as I believe to some extent it tries to match the footprint shape, recognise the type of building, and for example if it sees eg a red roof it will put a red roof on it.

Where they have the 3D map data you get a much more accurate representation that holds up pretty well even up close. Fly around one of the photogrammetry cities and that feels truly “next gen”.

I don’t know if there is a reason why they don’t have any 3D mapping of the U.K., but one assumes in general the quality of some currently 2D mapped areas will improve over the 10yr lifecycle they were talking about as they incorporate mapping updates into the sim with their “world” updates.
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Hopefully someone will put up a video of one of the UK Cities so we can see what they actually look like in the sim
 
I think it would be good if players can make corrections on the map similar to wikipedia but I suspect this would eventually destroy your fps and instead of famous landmarks they would just edit thier houses.
 
Zeeflyboy said:
If you are referring to London yes, that’s exactly right (as it stands) as bizarrely there is no 3D map data for bing of London... or in fact any of the U.K. as far as I’m aware.
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I read somewhere, when FS2020 had only just been announced, that the Portsmouth area is the only one in the UK that's enhanced just now.
 
Not sure I'll be flying around the UK too much anyway tbh (apart from my house and your mum's back garden on a sunny day) when considering the hundreds of more interesting / attractive locations you can fly.

I'm going straight to the Norwegian fjords.
 
phil-k said:
What I meant to say was other than London, Manchester or Birmingham perhaps
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Try posting on one of the guys doing YouTube videos comments - most are taking requests. Unfortunately the plonkers won’t let the alpha testers post videos or screenshots despite it being plastered all over YouTube
 
picnic said:
I read somewhere, when FS2020 had only just been announced, that the Portsmouth area is the only one in the UK that's enhanced just now.
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Ah actually now you mention it I remember someone mentioning Southampton as a photogrammetry area. Need to check that out, my old Uni town!
 
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