New Microsoft Flight Simulator Announced

[JZStudios]

On 6/20/2019 at 3:11 AM, Anomnomnomaly said:

Just a quick reminder to all those saying it's covering the 'WHOLE' globe... 2/3 of this planet is water... do you think they're going to actually texture map 'ALL' of the water too?

Earth's total planimetric (flat) land area is approximately 148,939,063.133 km² (57,505,693.767 sq mi) which is about 29.2% of its total surface.

 

Yeah, I get why it's so easy to do the other 150 million square Km.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

4 hours ago, JZStudios said:

Earth's total planimetric (flat) land area ...

sigh ... another one of these? 

No, the earth is not flat, it's round.  Using difficult words is not going to prove otherwise. 

 

 

 

 

It's not like they're putting every house and every tree in the map.  A lot of the land, especially in rural areas, will be using the same buildings and textures over and over again.  It's only the landmarks that they really pay attention to.

[The King of the Undead]

6 hours ago, Captain Chaos said:

sigh ... another one of these? 

No, the earth is not flat, it's round.  Using difficult words is not going to prove otherwise. 

 

 

 

 

It's not like they're putting every house and every tree in the map.  A lot of the land, especially in rural areas, will be using the same buildings and textures over and over again.  It's only the landmarks that they really pay attention to.

so I can crash into mount rushmore?

 

 

/s

[JZStudios]

On 7/4/2019 at 10:51 AM, Captain Chaos said:

sigh ... another one of these? 

No, the earth is not flat, it's round.  Using difficult words is not going to prove otherwise. 

 

 

 

 

It's not like they're putting every house and every tree in the map.  A lot of the land, especially in rural areas, will be using the same buildings and textures over and over again.  It's only the landmarks that they really pay attention to.

Look, the Earth being flat puts meaning to my life because then it wasn't just happenstance. Fuck math and being able to see the curvature of the earth on an airplane or at the beach. Heat waves. Tides. Triangles are 60 degrees.

[Results45]

On 7/2/2019 at 11:24 PM, Ross Siggers said:

Wait do you really see the game engines being similar enough that this would work? As in, the companies releasing the content putting a little work to get a version for new FS.

 

If you're talking about 3D models, assets, and view/control mechanics then yes, but the real pain (if we're talking about upgrading a legacy game engine) is re-writing base level code in order to work-in the latest in rendering technologies and other engine features.

 

Just look at the issues Bungie had with their game engine when developing Destiny or how long it took Wargaming to add HD textures for vehicles and maps. Or in BioWare's case, Frostbite just didn't have the features they needed to build Anthem. 

 

On 7/3/2019 at 9:10 PM, Glinch said:

TRIKE69 Requesting IFR clearance to 40000ft.

 

Clearance denied. This is restricted airspace. Please re-cross the ocean into North Korea.

 

On 7/4/2019 at 5:25 PM, will4623 said:

so I can crash into mount rushmore?

 

/s

 

You are ALWAYS cleared to crash into George Washy's face 

[The King of the Undead]

1 minute ago, Results45 said:

 

If you're talking about 3D models, assets, and view/control mechanics then yes, but the real pain (if we're talking about upgrading a legacy game engine) is re-writing base level code in order to work-in the latest in rendering technologies and other engine features.

 

Just look at the issues Bungie had with their game engine when developing Destiny or how long it took Wargaming to add HD textures for vehicles and maps. 

 

 

Clearance denied. This is restricted airspace. Please re-cross the ocean into North Korea.

 

 

You are ALWAYS cleared to crash into George Washy's face 

Specially if my plains dirty

[ARikozuM]

30 minutes ago, Results45 said:

You are ALWAYS cleared to crash into George Washy's face 

Your mother said the same last night. 

 

/s

[Deadsies]

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

Your mother said the same last night. 

 

/s

I can’t wrap my head around the joke but still chuckled under my breath IRL.