Microsoft Flight screenshots...

[toprob]

...here.

It's coming along nicely, and it seems to do a better job than FSX at atmospheric filtering -- there's a definite change of colour from foreground to background in the rainforest shot, something which FSX doesn't do, and has always annoyed me.
Mapped cliffs, rather than a few smeared pixels, mmm, nice...
Now I want to see some new ground textures in the next set of shots.

[Ian Warren]

It dose look good , now i wonder how many current FSX addons will go into Flight , the aircraft seem to be FSX defaults

[connor]

Looks good, but who the heck has a computer powerful enough to run it at smoothly. NASA? The CIA? Mike?

[Timmo]

hmm some interesting additions to the scenery engine there- Namely stream lines have a water effect which should help give a sense of distance and light (in FSX a stream line is simply a texture- no water reflection etc is apparent)...although in some of the shots the line looks unnaturally wide, presumably due to mip-maps

The coast line seems to be more variable and with a water mask as well (enabling a small amount of sub-surface detail to be generated)

I have a feeling the tree in the second screen shot is probably a placeholder rather than actual autogen at this stage but probably does show where they want to go with it (i.e. higher LOD trees when up close....looks like it is casting a proper shadow too which is nice)

The mesh looks nice....but this is Hawaii where the default mesh in FSX is pretty good anyway.

[Ian Warren]

If it Looks as good as this then i will be happy

VLC would also have to be a must

[Nzeddy]

Looking good so far! Can't wait what the final product looks like.

Hope they don't forget to make NZ green!

[Rotordude]

QUOTE (Nzeddy @ Dec 24 2010, 04:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hope they don't forget to make NZ green!

Ain't that what the tourists say as they board their flight

[nzav8tor]

Rob have you tried the ENB series shader for FSX? That amazing little bit of freeware will give you the lighting effects you are hoping for here.

[AndrewJamez]

Unless MS have recoded the engine to make use of GPU hardware then they are wasting our time and NZ will probably not look like NZ, as per usual. I am personaly not holding much hope for this product because of the direction MS have taken it.

[jordNZ]

QUOTE (nzav8tor @ Dec 27 2010, 08:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Rob have you tried the ENB series shader for FSX? That amazing little bit of freeware will give you the lighting effects you are hoping for here.

I have been looking into using the ENB shader - how exactly does it work and where can I download it?

[toprob]

QUOTE (jordNZ @ Jan 1 2011, 03:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have been looking into using the ENB shader - how exactly does it work and where can I download it?

Take a look here.

[jordNZ]

QUOTE (toprob @ Jan 1 2011, 03:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Take a look here.

Thank you. Tried it out - didn't run so smoothly on my machine (laptop) so will have to leave it off.

[gojozoom]

Hmm, my FSX looks exactly the same with VLC and some other eye candies installed....I don't think I'd bother upgrading, I have no money for another new PC.....

[kcgb]

QUOTE (jordNZ @ Jan 1 2011, 04:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thank you. Tried it out - didn't run so smoothly on my machine (laptop) so will have to leave it off.

you can edit it to make it run better

[Kelvinr]

QUOTE (jordNZ @ Jan 1 2011, 04:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thank you. Tried it out - didn't run so smoothly on my machine (laptop) so will have to leave it off.

try this one, has no impact on framerates.

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/2934...loomv2-zip.html

[Naki]

..another video has been released

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

[Ian Warren]

Come on Paul , that was a bit pathetic , i could show the same with FSX , and in there defaults , funny we have not seen any cities yet and when we do , it will only be Paris , London or New York , bet they wont show Auckland or Christchurch .

[Naki]

yeah I agree there is not much to see in that clip

[toprob]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 19 2011, 10:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Come on Paul , that was a bit pathetic

I too blame Paul.

Although it doesn't show much more than we've seen before, it does show how the 'scale' of the default sim has changed -- you might be able to fly down that low in FSX+addons, but in the default it would be a pointless mess. It shows promise.

...I don't get the caption thingie -- 'fly for free' -- are they giving it away?

[Naki]

yeah sorry about that ...I will talk to MS and get them to put up a decent vid next time