On 7/8/2019 at 6:39 AM, rocketlaunch said:

algae and pond scum. 

I resemble this!

17 minutes ago, SmokeDiddy said:

I resemble this!

OK. I'll look out for you. If I see you I'll wave. However, I may be too high for you to see my arm detail.

Speaking of dirt and weeds, I would like to see possums, pole cats and armadillo road kills on the highways and a random deer, dog and cat that's been lain in a ditch for days and all swolled up and maybe some buzzards circling.  I really miss my F1 Skycatcher that had bug splats on the windshield too!

<Please forgive my sarcasm...couldn't resist.>

Edited July 9, 20196 yr by SmokeDiddy

2 hours ago, SmokeDiddy said:

Speaking of dirt and weeds, I would like to see possums, pole cats and armadillo road kills on the highways and a random deer, dog and cat that's been lain in a ditch for days and all swolled up and maybe some buzzards circling.  I really miss my F1 Skycatcher that had bug splats on the windshield too!

<Please forgive my sarcasm...couldn't resist.>

 

go tell this to the American Truck Sim people. When they do Texas, they're gonna have to include dead armadillos.

I never will forget the slaughtered cow I saw in upstate New York when I was a kid.  It was dark.  The interstate was white concrete.  and then there was a massive mile long blood trail that ended in a large carcass.  I'm assuming it was a cow.  kind of a horror show actually.  nobody needs that.

Edited July 9, 20196 yr by sightseer

2 hours ago, SmokeDiddy said:

bug splats on the windshield

<WHAP!>  Bug strike!  Bet you don't have the guts to do *that* again.

When I'm flying along a highway, usually in a helicopter, I stay high enough to keep from hitting the tops of 18 wheeler trailers.  And trees.  And power lines.  Probably not much to see from that height.  Northeast of Dallas it's mostly skunks, and smell-o-vision is more realism than I care for.  Your mileage may vary. 🙂

It might be more interesting to have to run wildlife off a runway before you could land.  Sheep.  Bears.  Deer.  Whatever.

And for barnstormers landing in cow fields, you have... well, you figure it out. 😄

Hook

one of my all time favorite movies is called Silver Streak.  its about a guy (Gene Wilder) who witnesses a murder and gets thrown off a train and ends up wandering through the desert where he finds an old lady who will take him into town.  he thinks she means in a car but she has a bi plane and along the way they buzz some sheep.

Thats an awesome movie.  I recommend it.

1 hour ago, LHookins said:

It might be more interesting to have to run wildlife off a runway before you could land.  Sheep.  Bears.  Deer.  Whatever.

I think it was in XP10 that Austin decided there should be deer hazards on runways. That was introduced with bird strikes too (very annoying when trying to complete an FSEconomy flight and a bird takes you out). There used to be a checkbox for that in settings, but in XP11 it's buried in a .prf file. I haven't seen any deer in a while though, so maybe it's disabled. You couldn't actually run the deer off, they were just auto-generated on a path, and you had to abort if they crossed the runway.

In real life many years ago, I was hiring bush pilots in Central and South America for photo shoots. I remember many landings where the initial pass was at low level over a grass strip, to make sure there wasn't a cow or pig on the runway. With one "runway" near a beach, it was a check to make sure that sea turtles hadn't dug any new nest holes in the landing strip. 

See, this low level detail stuff matters! 😀

41 minutes ago, Paraffin said:

I think it was in XP10 that Austin decided there should be deer hazards on runways.

I remember something about bunnies.  Animated bunnies.

 

45 minutes ago, sightseer said:

along the way they buzz some sheep.

 

41 minutes ago, Paraffin said:

I remember many landings where the initial pass was at low level over a grass strip, to make sure there wasn't a cow or pig on the runway.

One of the cool things about having to do a low level pass over a runway or field to run off sheep is that you don't exactly do it at idle power.  You come blasting in as low as practical at high power.  It's not only not frowned upon, it's expected! 😄

Hook

Sounds to me you already have the sim you want you don't need MSFS.

Flipping heck. August can’t come soon enough!

1 hour ago, rjfry said:

Sounds to me you already have the sim you want you don't need MSFS.

Who here ever has the sim they want? I want what I have now, but better!

I'm interested to see if the new MFS can deliver that. Especially for weather and in a few other areas. If not right away, then at least a good foundation for getting there eventually.

That doesn't mean we can't talk about what the current baseline is for comparison, which will be different for each of us. 

1 hour ago, Superdelphinus said:

Flipping heck. August can’t come soon enough!

Ha ha.  What's happening in August, if I may ask?  Some more MSFS info? Or is that a guess?

I was just about to comment on pond scum and an Amoeba AI package, but your post sidetracked me.

1 hour ago, Mace said:

  What's happening in August, if I may ask?  Some more MSFS info? 

MS said that they’d release the next bit of info in Aug. We’ve just about run out of stuff to talk about given the trailer video and written statements. They’ll probably keep dropping bits of info along the way until release.

Weeds, rocks, dirt and dust. All essential bush pilot immersion features IMHO.

 

3 minutes ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

But we already have all these features in P3D thanks to OldProp (FSFXPackages) skip to 5:11 min ... heck some airports even have snow drifts running across the runway based on wind direction.

I'm hoping MS provide features we don't already have or fix some of the more obvious issues around morphing terrain (geometry change based on higher or lower res mip), floating cars/buildings. 

Make dynamic lighting everywhere and shift to deferred rendering to improve performance of DL, and improve on dynamic reflections and shadow quality, and avoid some of the shadow issues I've seen in the demo and other 3D shooters where one can see an obvious render issues where shadows render based on LOD as one moves in the world ... which I find very distracting ... seen this in DCS also and I know it's done for performance reasons, but any moderate to high speed aircraft and the shadow render based on a close LOD requires more "blind eye" than I'm willing to give.

Cheers, Rob.

If you have to pay an extra for it. Then you don't have it. He is talking about default sim.

 

Guys, for what I read here, I know a lot of you likes third party addons. But other of us don't like to pay hundreds of euros just for the sim to looks visually realistic.

 

I think that default good visual quality and effects is a must on 2020. We can not have the same as we had in 2006, just bucause "someone else could do it"...