April 20, 201610 yr Commercial Member Any chance of a few new screenshots? I find myself checking the facebook page and this thread each day like a kid waiting for Christmas :smile: We can do one better than that. We should have a play through video with dev commentary coming this week if all goes to plan. - Martin
April 20, 201610 yr We can do one better than that. We should have a play through video with dev commentary coming this week if all goes to plan. - Martin Would be awesome. Hoping for that. 9800X3D@H150i // Msi RTX 5090 Trio OC // 64GB DDR5 6000mhz CL30 // 2TB + 1TB Nvme Dell 27" 2127DGF - 1440p - Gsync - 165hz Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus // TCA Quadrant Airbus // TFRP T.Flight Rudder Pedals // Logitech Flight Multi Panel
April 21, 201610 yr We can do one better than that. We should have a play through video with dev commentary coming this week if all goes to plan. - Martin That would be great Martin. Much appreciated.
April 21, 201610 yr Commercial Member Video and or screenshots of the UI would be interesting That is also on our list of things to show. Look out for some of them coming soon. - Martin
April 21, 201610 yr Very good points by Dave ( aka dtrjones ), although I can also understand DVNT28's concerns and wants, which, IMHO, aren't necessarily meant to be bashing. Thankyou, it good to see you understand.
April 22, 201610 yr Two or three new images on the main DTG Flight School website... http://www.dtgflightschool.com/#news A couple seem to show variations in the ground lighting, Dovetail are saying they've delayed a month because of various feedback. So, cloud shadows, soft mountain shadows or anomaly? Edit - Colours in the second shot look different, more natural, maybe they've altered that too.
April 22, 201610 yr And the skies too! And the ground :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 22, 201610 yr Poppet :- The Plane Models look really nice Astonishing aren't they, they've really put the effort in. The rendering engine looks amazing too. The UNINSTALLER :- And the skies too! And the ground :-) Take a look at the ground under the Cherokees wing, it's more like GTA 5 than a normal flight sim. Martin said a good while ago they were using ORBX for the higher altitude visuals and their own tech for lower to the ground. I might just be seeing things but that close up mountain terrain looks to be a higher polygon count than anything I've seen to date.
April 22, 201610 yr Two or three new images on the main DTG Flight School website... http://www.dtgflightschool.com/#news A couple seem to show variations in the ground lighting, Dovetail are saying they've delayed a month because of various feedback. So, cloud shadows, soft mountain shadows or anomaly? Edit - Colours in the second shot look different, more natural, maybe they've altered that too. Neither of these images look very real to me. Sunsets and sunrises are not greyscale or anything close to it. They are the most colorful times of the day. The DTG FlightSchool teaser video has images that are not real life but yet look much more realistic than these two or any other preview shots that Ive seen. Edited April 22, 201610 yr by n4gix Removed images; they are unnecessary! | Dave | I've been around for most of my life. There's always a sunset happening somewhere in the world that somebody is enjoying.
April 22, 201610 yr The colors still look very odd to me, like they're running a post-processing filter for someone's idea of an artistic effect. This is on a color and gamma corrected pro graphics monitor, maybe not everyone else is seeing this? The first shot has the same purple-tinged skies they were showing before, and the second one actually has a hint of green in the sky color (RGB 166,171,165). When was the last time you saw a green sky? And why is the ground so dark? The plane looks good, but everything else looks off to me. X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator on Windows 10 i7 6700 4.0 GHz, 32 GB RAM, GTX 1660 ti, 1920x1200 monitor
April 22, 201610 yr Sightseer :- Sunsets and sunrises are not greyscale or anything close to it. They are the most colorful times of the day That's entirely weather and atmospherics dependent though. The second image looks overcast, does a decent job. Paraffin :- the second one actually has a hint of green in the sky color (RGB 166,171,165) Is it possible they're tweaking? The greens would have been contributing a lot to the cyan / neon blues from the original images. I wonder weather the colours are coming from their sky backdrops or their scattering code or something else?
April 22, 201610 yr They could be tweaking the underlying rendering engine, but colors that strange look more like a post-processing filter to me (which I hope they aren't using because that usually eats frame rate). I guess we'll know more after seeing some in-flight videos, since individual screenshots might have been altered in some way before distribution. X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator on Windows 10 i7 6700 4.0 GHz, 32 GB RAM, GTX 1660 ti, 1920x1200 monitor
April 22, 201610 yr That's entirely weather and atmospherics dependent though. The second image looks overcast, does a decent job. Are we seeing the same image? It looks to be the Fair weather theme. visibility is good. you can see what i believe to be high cirrus and there are fair weather cumulus that arent very tall and coverage is probably 3/8ths. pressure is probably high and since the air is clear there should be strong orange-red sunlight on the plane and clouds. The cloud shadows (the shadowed parts of the clouds) should be blue/blue-purple and the sky should be some form of blue. Things shouldnt go greyscale until after all light is leaving the sky well after the sun goes down...especially in those condtions. During thunderstorms at sunset it is true that the low foglike clouds that appear yellowish brown during the day will appear blackish as the light is blocked from them but the towering cumulus will still have color and sometimes dramatic color. and the sky is still usually a blue or blue green (from what Ive seen). The sky just doesnt lose color until the light goes away. even washed out as it gets, its still usually a blue. ya know - I can handle 'artistry' - thats fine but one persons idea of reality shouldnt preclude anothers and I hope it will be possible to have colorful sunsets with the new DTG flightsim (and FlightSchool). | Dave | I've been around for most of my life. There's always a sunset happening somewhere in the world that somebody is enjoying.
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