33 minutes ago, cmpbellsjc said:

The guys in Washington are early this time.

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If I'm not mistaken, that looks very much like Normandy, France. You can see the Mont Saint Michel in the background!

Beautiful! I wonder if the grass is affected by wind. Wouldn't it be great to see that when landing a helicopter?

1 minute ago, vesalius said:

If I'm not mistaken, that looks very much like Normandy, France. You can see the Mont Saint Michel in the background!

You are correct, the image's title is "procedurally-generated_Grass_Normandie-1.jpeg".

1 minute ago, vesalius said:

If I'm not mistaken, that looks very much like Normandy, France. You can see the Mont Saint Michel in the background!

It’s Normandie. If you open the link of the picture you will see it’s in the name of it.

Edited September 19, 20196 yr by ca_metal

Great googly moogly 😮

5 minutes ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

You are correct, the image's title is "procedurally-generated_Grass_Normandie-1.jpeg".

Owh I was so impressed that I didn't even noticed it. Thanks for pointing it out! :)

and here with Bing Map

Edited September 19, 20196 yr by nas123

God - this is so exciting....

This just keeps looking better and better

46 minutes ago, ca_metal said:

That landscape... 😍 And it seems everything is autogenerated, including the buildings.

If this is the level of detail we´ll see in MFS2020, all I can say is "exciting times ahead for flight simming".

Can´t imagine the detail we will have in airports and/or  missions. Even looks fun to get off your plane and walk around to pay a visit to some nice landscapes like this (virtual tourism on the way xD)

Cheers

Carlos

absolutely stunning! the grass, these clouds, beyond all expectations!

Holy buckets

That photo looks almost real at 4k full screen.

Most realistic looking rendition of earth of any render of any game I've ever seen.

Im an iliterate with this but if the grass is procedurally made...Can it be colour "changed" to depict seasons easily?

Cheers

Carlos

 

Just now, chass32 said:

...if the grass is procedurally made...Can it be colour "changed" to depict seasons easily?

My first thought also!

Edited September 19, 20196 yr by irrics

Just now, chass32 said:

Im an iliterate with this but if the grass is procedurally made...Can it be colour "changed" to depict seasons easily?

Yep, it's trivial.

But keep in mind this grass will only be rendered at very low altitudes, so the photoscenery textures will still need to be colored themselves if we want to have seasons.

2 minutes ago, chass32 said:

Im an iliterate with this but if the grass is procedurally made...Can it be colour "changed" to depict seasons easily?

Cheers

Carlos

 

Sure. The "hard part" would be change the orthos under the grass. But as I said before, they can use shaders to accomplish that.