MS flight Simulator and the future of map building

[Caliga]

He shouldn't be flying that close to it anyway.  That is verboten 

[Syt]

Btw, RPS has a list of the 340 or so cities that use photgrammetry for extra realism:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/18/all-341-photorealistic-cities-in-microsoft-flight-simulator-2020/

[MadBurgerMaker]

Btw, RPS has a list of the 340 or so cities that use photgrammetry for extra realism:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/18/all-341-photorealistic-cities-in-microsoft-flight-simulator-2020/

Yeah I have some friends from Dallas who are fairly salty about this:

Amarillo
Austin
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
El Paso
Fort Worth
Galveston
Houston
Kingwood
Laredo
Longview
Lubbock
McAllen
Midland
San Antonio
The Woodlands

 

[Valmy]

So much for dream of crashing into that big red pegasus sign.

[The Minsky Moment]

The important thing is that Oxnard is there in its fully Jaronesque glory.

[Syt]

Also, there's already 3rd party add ons, because of course there are: https://orbxdirect.com/category/europe/msfs

[The Minsky Moment]

Yeah I have some friends from Dallas who are fairly salty about this:

Ok but compared to the UK they need to get on the complaint queue

United Kingdom:
Portsmouth
Southampton

Is this a flight sim or a fleet sim?

[Caliga]

Btw, RPS has a list of the 340 or so cities that use photgrammetry for extra realism:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/18/all-341-photorealistic-cities-in-microsoft-flight-simulator-2020/

Louisville.

Maybe my: house is in there.

[Tamas]

Ok I am hitting more lagging with High settings than I am happy with. Must customise graphics settings.

[Caliga]

Does it have the same theme song as that last MS Flight Simulator (FSX I guess it was?)  I liked that song.

[Tamas]

Does it have the same theme song as that last MS Flight Simulator (FSX I guess it was?)  I liked that song.

It has a pleasant but about 20 seconds long menu music looping.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Does it have the same theme song as that last MS Flight Simulator (FSX I guess it was?)  I liked that song.

There are three different theme songs you can choose from: Color 1, Color 2, and Legacy, which is probably what you're looking for.  I haven't played any of the other ones in so long that I can't remember if it's from FSX or something even older though.

E:  Heh.  I can see my parking spot at work.  It isn't numbered, but the lines are there.

[Syt]

So, I've given this a spin. It runs quite smoothly on Ultra on my old (coming on 4 years) GTX1080 with 8GB (at least in nice weather ) in 1080p.

My first little spin was in the area where I grew up. From a few hundred feet up it looked very convincing, and pausing over areas I grew up I could easily recognize streets and major buildings. The illusion was quite convincing. Obviously, once you go down and realize the town church is now a block of flats it breaks down a bit. Still, very impressed. The whole rural landscape looked very nice, with the fields and occasional small village or farm, with cities dotted in between. I'm kind of keen on checking out Kiel and Hamburg as they're supposed to be using better real life data according to the list I linked.

My flight over Vienna was less amazing. It gets the layout and shape of buildings and terrain, also very often the height, but pretty much no landmark looked like it should, with the few areas of high rises being especially noticeable, not to mention parliament, Imperial palace, Schönbrunn Castle, the museums etc.

A few comparison shots vs Google maps. Wewelsfleth and Glückstadt are small towns near/on the Elbe river. The Vienna shot had me confused at first, because the big read complex looked weird from afar, but coming closer I realized it's the Karl Marx public housing complex.

[PDH]

Thank god they put Santa Cruz in this.

[Caliga]

I wonder if they even have teeny little Pacific atolls in the game.  I'd like to land on an exposed reef on some random island.