9 hours ago, hansh said:

Take a closer look, it definitely is the location you were looking for. 

Ah, now I understand. I wasn't looking for the greenhouse location but for the wing tip pic location. The greenhouse shot was only an example to show that the large buildings seen in MS's picture could be greenhouses that the software mistook for large buildings.

The area there looks very similar to the one in the sim but it's definitely not the same spot.

Or MSFS Team you could just supply Titles for the videos and screen shots next time 🙂

Well I think their screenshots will be in more and more remote areas to keep us busy so we don't start any "Pesky Rodents" like threads ever again.

Edited August 31, 20196 yr by Noooch

2 minutes ago, Noooch said:

Well I think their screenshots will be in more and more remote areas to keep us busy so we don't start any "Pesky Rodents" like threads ever again.

Yeah I was thinking something similar. They probably found something that will keep us busy so we don't notice the gap in our weekly new media shot. It's gonna be a long two weeks. Did someone already find the location of the desert shot LOL?! 

The pesky rodents have to come back as they are about hopefully having Objectflow type of animated little Mickeys in airports..

On 8/30/2019 at 10:35 AM, Raymond.Groenendijk said:

Geez, if this really is autogen corrected by the satellite image underneath it we're really in for a treat. Initially I thought this was just another photogrammetry scene, but having a closer look it doesn't seem te be one indeed. This is really going to make (VFR) flying absolutely stunning and realistic. 

Yes this was my impression that it wasn't photogrammetry - but created in some autonomous fashion and stored in the cloud for streaming along with the photogrammetry data. That's very exciting news and it does open up huge areas of the world to this technology.

So this is what I understand from Orbx TE for the UK South. They used a very similar process where they compute 13 million buildings / and 130 million trees plus roads, rails and rivers etc over the satelite imagery - you simply can't do that by hand! They then hand crafted 100's of custom objects to make each of the major towns and cities unique, and provided watermasking around the coastlines and major water bodies. Finally the satelite imagery was colour corrected as they stiched it together. 

So the issue being therefore - ok you've got the use of satelite imagery and overlaying autogen but it'll probably look very similar everywhere without a lot of touching up so although it does look pretty cool, I think it could look pretty repetitive if the autogen placement and assets are limited.

I hope they can also recreate the variety of roof colours, especially in Asia where you often see a patchwork of many different coloured roofs, green, red, blue, brown, silver (corrugated iron) etc.

Also, a variety of roof pitch is important.  Areas with snow have highly pitched roofs, but you don't see that much in Australia (nor other warmer climates).

Edited September 1, 20196 yr by MatthewS

15 minutes ago, MatthewS said:

I hope they can also recreate the variety of roof colours, especially in Asia where you often see a patchwork of many different coloured roofs, green, red, blue, brown, silver (corrugated iron) etc.

Also, a variety of roof pitch is important.  Areas with snow have highly pitched roofs, but you don't see that much in Australia (nor other warmer climates).

I think their technology will allow them t9 change roof colors.  For example, in the pic that this thread is named after, you can see an example of this tech at He bottom middle of the photo.  The long buildings with the green roof.  You can see some of the underlying building in the photo.

7 hours ago, ual763 said:

I think their technology will allow them t9 change roof colors.  For example, in the pic that this thread is named after, you can see an example of this tech at He bottom middle of the photo.  The long buildings with the green roof.  You can see some of the underlying building in the photo.

There are indeed clear indicators that they are using such a technique, this will also help to reduce the problem of repetitiveness @dtrjones mentions. Looking at all the different buildings matching base shape and maybe even roof type based on both satellite data and other data sources (OSM like) I don't think we will see that much repetition.

They do need to have regional variation in building types as buildings tend to look very different in different parts of the world. Just take the difference between French and Greek buildings in Europe for example, would be nice to see the actual building style reflected in the region when you fly over it. But somehow I've got the confidence they might pull this off, looking at how much eye for detail this team seems to have. 

I also thoroughly hope they will bring MSFS out as a service (like Windows 10) and continuously improve upon it. This way they could keep the world up-to-date as well as navigational data and stuff like that and maybe add more 'autogen' building types and regional variation and stuff later on (if they don't provide that at launch).