February 4, 20179 yr Computing power and resources make creating synthetic worlds with this level of detail relatively trivial. The only thing is that that might be far enough in the future that sims will be of spaceships rather than planes........... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 4, 20179 yr Look at what you have now vs what you had 25 years ago. You might be surprised at how soon the future will come. DJ
February 4, 20179 yr Moderator That is incredible. I have this game and enjoy it, but I have no idea how he has managed to recreate New York with such accuracy.
February 4, 20179 yr I'm not entirely sure what the wow is here. I see great draw distance and some recognisable features, but is it that it's a totally accurate representation of NY? Otherwise I see fairly flat textures and overall, a less inviting environment than GTAV. Happy to be educated otherwise, but... i910900k, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AW3423DW, Ruddy girt big mug of Yorkshire Tea
February 4, 20179 yr Moderator I think what makes it special is that everything is mostly dynamically generated (unlike say GTA V which was built by hand). You place roads and zones in the game (and landmarks) and it fills them out with realistic buildings, cars, people etc. I can't imagine such a thing would work on a large scale because of performance, but compared to Simcity 4 this is a big step forward.
February 4, 20179 yr Author I'm not entirely sure what the wow is here. I see great draw distance and some recognisable features, but is it that it's a totally accurate representation of NY? Otherwise I see fairly flat textures and overall, a less inviting environment than GTAV. Happy to be educated otherwise, but... It depends. Do you know anything about Cities, Skylines and the underlying things it does? The traffic AI, people Ai, the boat Ai, the urban calculations for population density, road use, garbage disposal etc, etc. Realtime placement of objects, sculpting of land, multi-level highways.... There's actually an awful lot going on here, and it's all the more impressive when you think of how ai brings our current sims to a crawl. Then there are the buildings themselves, which rather than being just flat boxes are actually pretty detailed, and can dynamically grow and change according to population density and other factors...... Believe me, taken as a whole package it's pretty darn impressive! :wink: (Not to mention the time the guy who built this must have taken) We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 4, 20179 yr Author What about this for sky and weather. Would be amazing! Yup, Unigine. Beautiful, but I never have been sure if it would make a good Flightsim engine. Playing around with the demo provided by NGIS gave me mixed feelings, but there's no denying the attraction of the eye candy. (Though at the time it had no round earth) We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 9, 20179 yr Author Google 3D Actually somebody also did this exact same thing with Outerra as well. It might be an interesting path, the physics of older sims driving the graphics that are possible now. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 9, 20179 yr Commercial Member That is simply stunning! Why wouldn't everyone just sim that way? Or is this just a sample for Tampa only? Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
February 9, 20179 yr Author That is simply stunning! Why wouldn't everyone just sim that way? Or is this just a sample for Tampa only? Its far from being worldwide 3d coverage. Only very selected areas.... Which would be fine with me, but for some, not having the whole world can be a deal breaker. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 9, 20179 yr Moderator I've been playing around in Google Earth using a KML file that shows all the 3D areas. I don't recommend it, it has the effect of making you realise that even the best flight sim scenery there is just can't compete with that . Google Earth can even add shadows and clouds (with realistic sky and constellations). Maybe one day we'll see it in a real flight sim, but probably not any time soon
February 9, 20179 yr Very unrealistic, I know I live in NYC :Shame On You: Asus Rampage VI Extreme Encore(water Cooled) EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Hybrid, 64 DD4 @ 2800 2 x 2x M.2 in raid 0.
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