This is awesome man. only 15$ is freaking brilliant. I wish XPX or P3d could use that engine.  I downloaded the demo but it is limited to an area will purchase the full version. something to look forward to, 

Curious who the "interested parties" might be for the flight sim development.

 

 

 

As HiFlyer pointed out... this is a whole different level of computer simulation.  With the right team, and company, flight sim with OT would be the closest thing to a home Level D simulator.

Who is using going to Outerra  for a flight simulator - Prepar3D, X-Plane, FlightGear or who else?

Would love to see Aerosoft pick this up and run with it.

 

They ditched their own simulator when Microsoft announced Flight, so they had previous interest. They have good knowledge of working closely with a large number of different developer teams to bring Aerosoft's own, and other branded products to market. They've also got the infrastructure established for their own storefront they could use for distribution. They also have a great userbase they could market to, while still supporting the X-Plane and FSX/P3D users.

 

Come on Aerosoft and make it happen!

Would love to see Aerosoft pick this up and run with it.

 

They ditched their own simulator when Microsoft announced Flight, so they had previous interest. They have good knowledge of working closely with a large number of different developer teams to bring Aerosoft's own, and other branded products to market. They've also got the infrastructure established for their own storefront they could use for distribution. They also have a great userbase they could market to, while still supporting the X-Plane and FSX/P3D users.

 

Come on Aerosoft and make it happen!

 

Last I knew, Aerosoft did look at it along with a number of possibilities, and rejected it at the time. My impression was that it was simply too different and maybe too much of a risk. Also at the time, there was on the forums a well known individual who argued quite forcefully that for immutable technical reasons an Outerra type engine was unsuitable for flight simulation since it could never ever do........

 

Any of the things its doing now. (Or will likely go on to do in the future)   :p0504:

Even with default FSX level aircraft, i would purchase this and play the crap out of it! That looks fantastic.

In February 2010 Mathijs Kok of Aerosoft said of Outerra

 

If I tell you it just won't work, will that help? we tested several engine that rely heavy on fractals and have found out that when push comes to shove old fashioned LODs still work better. It remains a technology that promises more then it can deliver

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/32217-the-outerra-engine/

 

Finally Aerosoft has abandoned its own flight simulation following Lockheed Martin simulation - as far as I am aware.

Don't they already have an aircraft ? Mig 29 ? is simulated or just give the throttle and fly ? 

 

 

Curious who the "interested parties" might be for the flight sim development.

 

Seems like such a no-brainer to me, as in someone will take this thing and use it for a truly ongoing FS.   Just look at how long MSFS went, and is still going.  The model of a super robust core engine + SDKs for content is something w/ such long term applicability it is only a matter of time before it's done.   Hopefully it will be w/ a group who has some allegiance to FS authenticity, for a real, 'as real as it gets'.  Sounds like the slogan could be more than wishful proclaiming!

In February 2010 Mathijs Kok of Aerosoft said of Outerra

 

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/32217-the-outerra-engine/

 

Finally Aerosoft has abandoned its own flight simulation following Lockheed Martin simulation - as far as I am aware.

 

Not the thread or person I was thinking of but it will do.

 

One of the main things behind that at the time (in discussions) was that it used a different image format that would have required significant retooling to use. Current airports could not be readily transferred, if at all and it would essentially have required starting from scratch with an entirely different way of doing things. In the end, it that may have been to much of a leap of faith.

 

I thought it represented a level of caution that might come back to bite us in the end, but then I could afford to feel that way. It wasn't my money or company on the line. It is what I meant though earlier in saying we might just miss this coming wave; because just like individual users and FSX, we may simply have too much invested in the past to make a try for revolution over evolution.

 

God knows what might be going on behind the scenes, but sometimes I think we will be very late to this party.

 

Don't they already have an aircraft ? Mig 29 ? is simulated or just give the throttle and fly ?

 

Yes. Its a simple plane right now. 

 

Outerra is a great engine and as so many of us I'd love to use OT as a convincing flightsimming platform.

Still have it on my HD somewhere after i purchased it back in 2012 ... so maybe now in 2014 the time for a happy re-install of it will come!

The news pointed at above in the first post sound most promising and if possible i, and i - again - assume many of us dedicated flightsimmers, will certainly support an OT Kickstarter funding campaign.

 

 

God knows what might be going on behind the scenes, but sometimes I think we will be very late to this party.

 

From the Outerra blog in the recent "2013 Retrospective, 2014 Look Ahead":

 

"The breadth of the scope of possible Outerra applications is huge, and we are also investigating other possibilities to launch development of other OT-based projects. A hot candidate is a unified simulator platform with the primary initial focus on a flight simulator, as it makes the largest group of inquiries we are getting."  [Emphasis mine.]

 

Interest here seems high to me, virtually every time this comes up.  Obviously the Outerra folks are seeing that same interest.

 

Scott

cool mig. 

"The breadth of the scope of possible Outerra applications is huge, and we are also investigating other possibilities to launch development of other OT-based projects. A hot candidate is a unified simulator platform with the primary initial focus on a flight simulator, as it makes the largest group of inquiries we are getting."

Then let Outerra go ahead and develop the simulator.

Then let Outerra go ahead and develop the simulator.

 

Isn't that what they say they will probably do? It would be nice if the accumulated experience of this community was of greater assistance, but I think they have reached their critical juncture, and somebody will step up to the table no matter what happens at this point.

 

And that could be a good thing in the end. Perhaps they will be free(er) to make their own path, with a broader focus this way.

 

Like the Star Citizen kick-starter, in a field that the traditional wisdom said had no future, I think an Outerra kick-starter will pull some very impressive numbers. And I want to be part of it.