-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
What kind of sorcery is this? Flight Simulator 2020 related
- Thread starter Theorry
- Start date
Major buildings will probably look real nice up close. But you'll probably get some Google Earth-y oddly stretched 3D objects like cars and trees that are not fully formed.
ANd of course you'll still be able to find spots around the earth to screencap and say "this looks bad/funky". Land in some random valley somewhere and it's impossible that everything looks pristine.
OP
OP
Officialy not announced yet for Series X. July would be a great idea for that tho. It comes to Xbox One also.
But PC is first focus. So think consoles in 2021
I'm so ridiculously hyped for this one. Everything they show is pretty much perfect. So glad to get a proper, enthusiast focused flight sim again.
They're using tech similar to google maps 3d view image based modeling right? Cos they actually looks pretty nice up close. Still not sure how they did that.
I don't mean this as a slight to Xbox, who I respect very much, but Flight Simulator 2020 is the first Xbox game that I've ever felt major envy about not being able to play.
It looks phenomenal. I would love a full flight simulator like this, but I don't own an Xbox, sadly for me.
It looks phenomenal. I would love a full flight simulator like this, but I don't own an Xbox, sadly for me.
I wonder if we'll get something goofy in it like a Pelican or the transport thing from GoW.
Damn, if we had E3 this year MS could have replaced the Forza car with a Cessna on stage.
I don't mean to downplay it but a serious question. Isn't this easier to do because it's a flight sim an has very little geometry and static polys?
No doubt it looks amazing and I can't wait for it but isn't this a case of just amazing art direction and lighting engine that's got some amazing artists behind it more so than games set on the ground which have a lot more going on?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a graphics tech guy. And this isn't to knock that amazing work.
No doubt it looks amazing and I can't wait for it but isn't this a case of just amazing art direction and lighting engine that's got some amazing artists behind it more so than games set on the ground which have a lot more going on?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a graphics tech guy. And this isn't to knock that amazing work.
Not necessarily. None of the assets look particuarly low detail and special attention is paid to airports. Also you have to consider the plane itself is really well modeled including a detailed and operational interior. Another strain on systems is the processing power needed to run the simulation with physics modeling being much more demanding than a normal game. The waves look absolutely beautiful as well. I bet even on a PC this game will take some hefty hardware to look this good.
You say this like you just copy/paste reality and there you go! sim done! LOL.
So, yea it's a 3d google earth type thing (Bing Maps, of course) for most cities - BUT THEN with a heaping helping of AI that reconstructs those images into things that look good and not screwed up. It actually uses machine learning to interpret and extrapolate what should be there and procedurally generates buildings, trees, sand dunes, etc. But for the big cities, they also have photogrammetry. Which means they have scans of cities that are accurate to the centimeter (I believe). New York and Seattle in the reveal trailer looked absolutely stunning - and true to life. Because they were.
But, of course, that sort of system isn't just plug and play. Lots of things to iron out. One of my favorites: where the sand dunes in the Sahara should've been, they had a bug where the AI thought that it was looking at brown colored trees. And so, here you are, over the sandy Sahara forest LOL
You might need to see some more screenshots lol. But check out the reveal trailer again. The detail on the ground is excellent for a flight sim. More detailed in the distance than quite a fair many AAA games. (And again, that's because it's not just a picture plastered onto the ground, but using a combination of satellite data and procedural generation.)
Graphics looks like the opening of the Hellblade II trailer.
But in an open world. Which is our entire planet.
Could never have imagined being excited for a flight sim but this is insane.
But in an open world. Which is our entire planet.
Could never have imagined being excited for a flight sim but this is insane.
The graphics on this game kick the crap out of anything else either MS/Sony have revealed so far.
It looks incredible! Gotta wonder what this looks like on base Xbox One.
What is comparable to this game? The environment is hardly interactive.
The map is the size of the earth, like literally the size of a planet. And it's not like it's some 90's barren landscape the environment is incredibly detailed and interacts with the player
Just because you can't hop out and rob a bank ala gta doesn't mean this isn't literally incredible and worthy of the next gen moniker.
You can fly through it. That's interactive. The rain hits you. That's interactive.
Graphics mean how things look. Not how you interact with things. That's why the whole "But this game is open world..." excuse just doesn't wash with me.
In any event, this one literally IS open world and looks like that. Nothing else comes close.
this is what microsoft should have used when advertising the cloud. Because of a lot of this is on the processing of the server farms doing a lot of work. It's incredible that it took them nearly a generation of touting cloud computing and stuff to get what they really wanted to basically the following generation.
But this is what the damn cloud is folks.
But this is what the damn cloud is folks.
WOW! That looks insane!
I had zero interest in a flight sim, but those visuals may change my mind. Did i hear right that they have mapped tons of real world cities?
I had zero interest in a flight sim, but those visuals may change my mind. Did i hear right that they have mapped tons of real world cities?
Incredible! This will be my 1st flight sim. I even have a HOTAS ready as I've got one for Elite Dangerous.
Surprised they're able to make it look so good when it's being held back by the Xbox One version.
/s
/s
OP
OP
OP
OP
OP
OP
