INTERVIEW: LIGHTING AND TERRAIN

[Kengi 0]

Here's an interesting interview that recently went up on the MS Flight site:

 

https://news.microso...nd-terrain.aspx

 

Edit: Sorry about all-caps on the title. I copy/pasted and didn't realize until after I posted...

[matt_gold 1]

very interesting article give us the VC cub

 

edit: sorry that was belligerent I take it back. Seriously, interesting article.

[OMGBBQ32 12]

I like the article. The next thing I want to see is when the snow hits the ground, it stays there and starts piling. It's hard to do, but I believe that the team can do it!

[HiFlyer 9,358]

Here's an interesting interview that recently went up on the MS Flight site:

 

https://news.microso...nd-terrain.aspx

 

Edit: Sorry about all-caps on the title. I copy/pasted and didn't realize until after I posted...

 

Ahhh!!! Finally the interviews/questions. I was wondering if they had forgotten about them, or if they hadn't, when they were ever going to start releasing them. Cool.

 

And he starts with the cliff textures! Its interesting, because many of the innovations in flight were things mentioned in the Aerosoft forums as possibilities for the sim that they were once thinking of making. I chuckle whenever I see how the houses have super deep foundations so that they don't seem to "hang" unsupported when placed on steep inclines.......

[OMGBBQ32 12]

I chuckle whenever I see how the houses have super deep foundations so that they don't seem to "hang" unsupported when placed on steep inclines.......

 

That's in Flight too. It seems like they cannot put houses on slopes. Whenever they do that, the house is straight and part of it is buried into the ground.

[jcomm 5,918]

I'm confused...

 

they mention "various levels of icing" on cumulonimbus??? Never noticed any hints of icing in my flights :-|

 

Anyway, they mention future developments... That's promissing....

 

BTW: Did anyone find lower / higher than ISA temperatures - using the oild temp method with the engine stopped and cold ?

[noffa 0]

Each weather cell can also be assigned a wide variety of environmental conditions, such as turbulence level, precipitation type and rate, icing rate, visibility, wind speed and direction, gust speeds, and wind shear.

 

Wonder if that means that there actually is a model of icing conditions, or if that just relates to how (high) clouds form...

 

Edit: jcomm beat me to it :-)

[EastCoastGuy 0]

So when are they going to fix the all the airports with tall trees at the ends?

[kannwar 47]

This just makes me angry reading this. It's great that they have these improvements for Flight but what about those of us still stuck with the technological dinosaur that is FSX and struggling to get decent performance on modern high-end systems??

 

Could really use those autogen performance improvements with OrbX sceneries. Not to mention trees that are sized realistically and an overcast cloud layer that IS ACTUALLY OVERCAST!

 

Next they will introduce proper cloud shadowing effects and us FSX users will only be able to drool.

[Oracle427 45]

Ms stopped working on FSX years ago. Don't hold your breath for an update because it isn't coming...

[RoboRay 126]

This just makes me angry reading this. It's great that they have these improvements for Flight but what about those of us still stuck with the technological dinosaur that is FSX

 

Why are you "stuck" with FSX?

[dburne 2]

It's great that they have these improvements for Flight but what about those of us still stuck with the technological dinosaur that is FSX and struggling to get decent performance on modern high-end systems??

 

Well, the Aces team was disbanded in 2009, and at that time it was the end of the MSFS franchise. We did not know that they would ever resume doing a civilian flight sim.

 

They since resumed by doing Flight, in a totally different direction than in their previous flight sims - support by MS ended for FSX some time ago...

[HiFlyer 9,358]

That's in Flight too. It seems like they cannot put houses on slopes. Whenever they do that, the house is straight and part of it is buried into the ground.

 

Its different. In flight, the (extra long) foundations reach the ground. In Fsx, one end of the building just hangs in the air, unsupported. This happens even in Xplane-10 where there is a whole slab of buildings (with trucks attached!) just hanging in the air at one of the demo airports. It handles this in a more modern way than FSX, though.

 

The flight solution (the extra long foundations) is the exact one suggested for the problem in the Aerosoft forums. As is the solution to the problem of texture stretching on steep hillsides. I looked for it when Flight first came out.

 

[HiFlyer 9,358]

Wonder if that means that there actually is a model of icing conditions, or if that just relates to how (high) clouds form...

 

Edit: jcomm beat me to it :-)

 

We we all know (or at least suspect) that there are hooks for other things to be implemented at a future date.......

[dburne 2]

We we all know (or at least suspect) that there are hooks for other things to be implemented at a future date.......

 

Absolutely, which helps me maintain hope for the future of Flight.