Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand

Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany

Ilford, London, UK

Ibiza, Spain

And Schak95 did it once again 🙂 Thanks a lot, it nice to get locations on the screenshots, and inspiration for places to fly to when the sim is out.

10 hours ago, aleex said:

Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany

MSFS looks better and more realistic than the real photo!

12 hours ago, Murmur said:

MSFS looks better and more realistic than the real photo!

Too many trees in front of it. 😉

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Schloss+Neuschwanstein/@47.5600789,10.7517157,255a,35y,207.03h,72.2t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x479cf7cac44ea35d:0xc8a6866bd39dbba3!8m2!3d47.557574!4d10.7498004

11 hours ago, Farlis said:

Too many trees in front of it. 😉

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Schloss+Neuschwanstein/@47.5600789,10.7517157,255a,35y,207.03h,72.2t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x479cf7cac44ea35d:0xc8a6866bd39dbba3!8m2!3d47.557574!4d10.7498004

I do agree. Comparing with other maps and views (e.g. Google Maps), something's going unclear, indeed.

In reality, there should be more rocks, ravines and waterfalls, less trees and vegetation on the left side of the in-game photo.

It sounds a bit strange, like overrated, made up and unreal...

Edited April 18, 20206 yr by antier

18 hours ago, Farlis said:

Too many trees in front of it. 😉

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Schloss+Neuschwanstein/@47.5600789,10.7517157,255a,35y,207.03h,72.2t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x479cf7cac44ea35d:0xc8a6866bd39dbba3!8m2!3d47.557574!4d10.7498004

 

7 hours ago, antier said:

I do agree. Comparing with other maps and views (e.g. Google Maps), something's going unclear, indeed.

In reality, there should be more rocks, ravines and waterfalls, less trees and vegetation on the left side of the in-game photo.

It sounds a bit strange, like overrated, made up and unreal...

Google has the area covered by photogrammetry, hence why it's more accurate.

On Bing it just looks a bit like what we see in-game (the engine and the A.I. just represented the surrounds as good as the source, which is the Bing Imagery):

In my opinion, it's good enough. To improve it, they would have to do like google and cover the area with photogrammetry. Using just aerial imagery + Azure A.I. + Handmade objects, it's a little hard to improve much more beyond that.

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by ca_metal

Too many and too tall trees, mountain textures very limiting here (possibly low settings). Looks more like a picture out a fairytale, but nonethless very nice looking (trying to imagine it at sundown and with some clouds) and great that the castle is even there!! As a matter of fact, I am really positively surprised at how many custom items the developers are placing what seems to be worldwide.

It's impressive... Even those locations without photogrammetry look amazing and so real. What a huge step forward this is, and all included in vanilla version!

15 hours ago, antier said:

I do agree. Comparing with other maps and views (e.g. Google Maps), something's going unclear, indeed.

In reality, there should be more rocks, ravines and waterfalls, less trees and vegetation on the left side of the in-game photo.

It sounds a bit strange, like overrated, made up and unreal...

Most of the landscape in the simulator is the result of a global application of "procedural" rules form available data (over processed aerial imagery) where photogrammetry is not available (i.e: most of the world). 

So one should expect this kind of result as a default and out of the box landscape for this region or any other (non photogrammetry) region on this planet.

Unless our goal is to open google earth or Bing maps and we sync them with MSFS and start comparing every single virtual nautical mile we fly with reality, this is more than enough as a default scenery. 

But hopefully, we will have some user friendly tools to finetune and improve our specific areas of interest (terrain, vegetation etc).

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Claviateur

27 minutes ago, Claviateur said:

But hopefully, we will have some user friendly tools to finetune and improve our specific areas of interest (terrain, vegetation etc).

This is where they can really shine. If this happens, I can see a lot of users using the tools to develop their own sceneries and release them as freeware. Landmarks and small airports can be improved this way.

5 hours ago, ca_metal said:

This is where they can really shine. If this happens, I can see a lot of users using the tools to develop their own sceneries and release them as freeware. Landmarks and small airports can be improved this way.

Yes but these addons happened in previous and actual simulators. 3D apps for landmarks and Airport layout editors made these types of mods/addons available and democratic.

However as MSFS seems to be the first valuable and real VFR oriented flight sim, I look forward hopefully to see tools for terrain and landscape editing. People who know their region can refine and make these little things happen in the terrain and biome to make it more nuanced and subtle.

I think the engine by default creates procedural terrains, rocky hills etc. as we saw in one island. But where Aerial imagery (Ortho) is available, this type of terrain creation might not be possible

Same for procedural infrastructure as well as granular tweak of specific urban areas if possible... 

Edited April 19, 20206 yr by Claviateur

On 4/19/2020 at 4:23 PM, ca_metal said:

This is where they can really shine. If this happens, I can see a lot of users using the tools to develop their own sceneries and release them as freeware. Landmarks and small airports can be improved this way.

This is what is distressing. Too often, and without wanting to question their knowledge and/or their talents, a certain number of these passionate "developers" create very approximate realizations which often resemble decorations in pasteboard or cartoons. That is to say the complete opposite of what we want to see in FS2020.