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Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:00 pmby Ian Warren
Girl s Girl s Girl s , all the promises off FSE and was dumped two years back and the entire staff , they only showed snippets suggesting all - before you get your panties in a twist wait till you see a release date , mean time consider FSX as the best still out there .
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:36 pmby morrisman1
I must say that it looks pretty damn good. If all planes are made to those standards Ill be a happy man. Obviously Hawaii is their showpiece area but it is an extremely high standard of scenery. The autogen looks to be much improved in that video.
The only thing I can ask for is the SDK to be awesome as without addons flight simulator would be pretty lame.
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:42 amby connor
The thing that worries me is the fact that it is possible they won't have the entire earth mapped with scenery. It is possible that only certain areas have been mapped (e.g. Hawaii). This would make airliner flights near impossible, which would explain why we've only seen GA aircraft. This would also explain why Aerosoft, who mainly specialise in scenery are very unhappy with MS.
Just my thoughts
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:06 pmby Adamski
connor wrote:The thing that worries me is the fact that it is possible they won't have the entire earth mapped with scenery. It is possible that only certain areas have been mapped (e.g. Hawaii). This would make airliner flights near impossible, which would explain why we've only seen GA aircraft. This would also explain why Aerosoft, who mainly specialise in scenery are very unhappy with MS.
... Considering the sheer *volume* of data needed for such high detail scenery, I'd say it's unlikely they'll be able to cram (and sell) the whole thing as one package. It'll probably settle down to something like what we have now: cruddy default (apart rom one showcase area) then let the other manufacturers do their bit for them.
Even now (inb FSX) to get anything decent (even for a cross Tasman flight - and get good scenery at most primary airports in both countries) I've had to buy all of Rob's addons, VLC and the ORBX combined (plus a few airports). Add all that up ... not cheap!!!
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:01 pmby deeknow
That lighting is just gorgeous!!! Can see a lot more GA action going on for me personally when you've got that sort of atmosphere in/out of the cockpit.
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:19 pmby AndrewJamez
deeknow wrote:That lighting is just gorgeous!!! Can see a lot more GA action going on for me personally when you've got that sort of atmosphere in/out of the cockpit.
Is that you want for a real GA experience?? Just dipa rag in petrol and hang it under ya desk
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Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:45 amby creator2003
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/Nine more shots of MSflight on there website
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Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:43 amby toprob
creator2003 wrote:http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/Nine more shots of MSflight on there website
And looking nice, too. Is that pilot wearing sunnies at night? Great clouds in #6.
This announcement has spoilt my fun keeping up with the 'Flight project cancelled/on hold' thread over at Avsim.
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Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:52 amby creator2003
Yeah i was keeping up with that news too but didnt want to drop the bomb here until it was announced officially by MS flight , im glad its turned out the be just rumors and not fact and looking forward to more news items
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Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:52 pmby SeanTK
Very nice images!
Having been born in Honolulu, and raised for a number of years on Oahu, this is really exciting for me.
I see a lot of very familiar hotels in image 9!
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Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:08 pmby Timmo
Yess! Notice the self shadowing on the buildings? Of course this is available (sort of) in FSX as long as the object are all in the same model...which makes it hard for larger areas. In Flight however, it appears these calculations may be handled automatically for placed models (probably not for autogen though)
It doesn't appear that lights actually cast light at night time....
