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by **skysimcaptain** » Sat May 28, 2011 9:58 am

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/#

by **Naki** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:46 am

Thanks for HU

by **AlisterC** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:51 am

Looking more and more like FSX on steroids. A good thing for addon developers perhaps. Cheers for the link

by **Naki** » Sat May 28, 2011 12:28 pm

Hmmm ...a default RV-6/7?

by **AndrewJamez** » Sat May 28, 2011 4:01 pm

I am slowly warming to this MS flight. A vans aircraft would be a welcome addition to the fleet. I read on the A2A forums that Microsoft have been in descussion with the A2A team and all though the contents of that discussion where obiously top secret, one can only wish they were a fly on the wall at that moment. Scott said that they were extremely happy with the discussions with MS. Its good to see that MS are talking to addon leaders such as A2A during the development of Flight, probably forging new relations or evan asking A2A how to make a flight sim aircraft work so darn well. I'm sure its one reason why A2A releases have slowed somewhat. Maybe they have two jobs to do at the moment. One can only wonder.

by **Ian Warren** » Sat May 28, 2011 4:14 pm

Having all the A2A products bar one , yeah you would have guest it , the Piper Cub , ... a Vans aircraft wont end up in my hanger , A2A should stick with Accsim WWII and incoming F104 and the long waited F4 Phantom .

by **connor** » Sat May 28, 2011 4:53 pm

MICROSOFT, Go and talk to Captain Sim and Vertigo as well!!!

by **Timmo** » Sun May 29, 2011 6:21 am

Some more interesting tid-bits in those screen shots.

Shot 5 has what appears to be vegetation running down the edges of the stream- Contrast this to how FSX handles ALL stream lines now (i.e. excludes autogen along stream lines which isn't always realistic). Notice also that in screen 1, the autogen does appear to be cropped from near the stream line. This indicates there are at least 2 types of stream to choose from?

The coast line/wave effect in shot 2 looks superb and the masking of the beach areas looks better (presumably these are still just a line feature with an associated beach mask?)

The cliffs in shot 4 and 5 show better handling of texture mapping on steep slopes (i.e. The mapping changes over a certain threshold)

Not too much to go on though

by **Naki** » Sun May 29, 2011 9:00 am

connor wrote:
QUOTE (connor @ May 28 2011,4:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
MICROSOFT, Go and talk to Captain Sim and Vertigo as well!!!

Wouldn't be surprised if they arent talking to Capt Sim at least ...they did work on the Acceleration pack for FSX (F18)...I believe Orbx and PMDG are somehow invloved with Flight

by **Adamski** » Sun May 29, 2011 5:17 pm

Great to hear they're talking to the right people!

I wonder whether we'll finally get airfields/runways on a slope?

by **Naki** » Sun May 29, 2011 5:21 pm

Yeah thats something I would like to see..plus wind blowing through trees etc on windy days

by **Adamski** » Sun May 29, 2011 5:56 pm

Naki wrote:
QUOTE (Naki @ May 29 2011,5:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah thats something I would like to see..plus wind blowing through trees etc on windy days

... and roofs blowing off

by **Splitpin** » Sun May 29, 2011 6:32 pm

Ive offered them (MS) the chance to include an Air**** as part of the package.....the jury is still out.....but i think i can convince them.

by **Ian Warren** » Sun May 29, 2011 6:46 pm

Shirley,s Bra , a bloody Air Truck and now a Van .. Winds blowing roofs off ... is this not telling some off you guys no one wants Shirley,s Bra blowing of in a Van , who the hell is Shirley

by **Olderndirt** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:55 am

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 28 2011,11:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Shirley,s Bra , a bloody Air Truck and now a Van .. Winds blowing roofs off ... is this not telling some off you guys no one wants Shirley,s Bra blowing of in a Van , who the hell is Shirley

Once knew a Shirley Surething - believe that may have been her nickname

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by **Adamski** » Mon May 30, 2011 4:17 am

Olderndirt wrote:
QUOTE (Olderndirt @ May 30 2011,3:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Once knew a Shirley Surething - believe that may have been her nickname .

Was she related to Mary Rogers (a very old joke!)?

by **AndrewJamez** » Mon May 30, 2011 8:45 am

Ive been doing a lot of reading and it seems to me that MS Flight will be tied into a MS flight addon shop utilising MS live. It would be silly for MS to launch "flight" without having an addon service up and running if that is their plan. A number of addon companys have been signing non disclosure agreements with MS so it is kind of obvious what is happening. If orbx is working with MS then that would explain their 2011 slowdown as well. I have also read a post from Mathis at Aerosoft saying that they are not at all happy with how MS are going about doing Flight and will now be starting a transition to fully support Xplane10. However he has been known to say things like this before. Speculation, Speculation ,Speculation.

by **AndrewJamez** » Mon May 30, 2011 8:51 am

Timmo wrote:
QUOTE (Timmo @ May 29 2011,6:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The cliffs in shot 4 and 5 show better handling of texture mapping on steep slopes (i.e. The mapping changes over a certain threshold)

Not too much to go on though

That cliff face deatil almost seem like some form of tessalation. In pic 4 you can see the lod of that rocky face fade away to the feft hand side of the pic. Also the water detail at the base of the cliff looks amazing.

by **connor** » Mon May 30, 2011 1:36 pm

AndrewJamez wrote:
QUOTE (AndrewJamez @ May 30 2011,8:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have also read a post from Mathis at Aerosoft saying that they are not at all happy with how MS are going about doing Flight and will now be starting a transition to fully support Xplane10.

Noooooooo! Aerosoft, don't leave us

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by **Ian Warren** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:10 pm

I have also read a post from Mathis at Aerosoft saying that they are not at all happy with how MS are going about doing Flight and will now be starting a transition to fully support Xplane10.

It s not a decision not hard to make , Xplane lives in the 2004 days , one thing for sure MS really kneecapped them-self if rumours are true ! But i would say FSX has so much to build on , Aerosoft , well maybe mentioned something out of context .

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