48 minutes ago, Gulfstream said:

Water clipping through house!

Non-manifold geometry. Reasonable thing to do for autogen.

49 minutes ago, Gulfstream said:

 This simulator is obviously going to be a disaster!  😅

 

Agreed, totally un-flyable. LOL

4 minutes ago, irrics said:

Man oh man..

Some people around here literally can't help but be negative about seemingly every single piece of news.

 

Smile guys - Life is too short...

Right?! I guess sometimes it's hard to put prejudice aside when you wear another teams jersey for a while.

I mean, I know the selected media puts the sim in the best light possible...but dang! What they've show is way beyond what I expected.

I’m a bit confused about when the alpha/ beta/ whatever test is. I thought it would have to be soon because the second tech alpha was starting on 10th October, but this looks like the first one will start at the end of October?

procedural generation techniques are pretty amazing these days so great to see that being used (I’m playing a lot of no mans sky at the moment!)

58 minutes ago, LB777 said:

Nice catch lol

The water isn't actually clipping through, they made the underside texture of roofs invisible so it saves on rendering. Since it's a flightsim they probably assumed a roof would be seen from the top most of the time... they clearly forgot about the picture detectives among us 😀

Can you explain this a little more please? Wouldn't it be more efficient to have the underside be gray than water?

17 minutes ago, Superdelphinus said:

I’m a bit confused about when the alpha/ beta/ whatever test is. I thought it would have to be soon because the second tech alpha was starting on 10th October, but this looks like the first one will start at the end of October?

They said the timeline for the second alpha is coming on the 10th. We now know that the first public alpha will happen no earlier than October 24. Looks like they're planning ahead and will have more than one round of testing.

 

13 minutes ago, carbonbasedlifeform said:

Can you explain this a little more please? Wouldn't it be more efficient to have the underside be gray than water?

It's not water, it's invisible.

Edited September 19, 20196 yr by HughesMDflyer4

1 hour ago, Gulfstream said:

Water clipping through house!

This simulator is obviously going to be a disaster!  😅

 

Microsoft Redmond offices:

"Connor, I'm going to need you to stay late to choose a beautiful screen capture for tomorrow's update. Pretty easy in this sim to find those." Connor's heart stops for a second when he hears what his boss is tasking him with. It's 4:00 am the next morning, release day. Connor is looking at the image in 4k pixel by pixel. He thinks he's covered them all, but he isn't sure anymore because his eyes keep closing. When he wakes up at his desk, he checks the image one more time and posts it. The next day after lunch, Connor finds his boss waiting for him. "I was reading AVSIM. You have to understand some of these guys are saying we have poor quality control and for fans not to their hopes up. Let's talk about this "clipping" error you let through and your future at the company..."

Edited September 19, 20196 yr by carbonbasedlifeform
typo

makes FSX look like its from the DOS days

2 hours ago, Gulfstream said:

Water clipping through house!

This simulator is obviously going to be a disaster!  😅

Looks to me like the tree is half way in the house, not water clipping with the house.

Maybe this has been brought up before, but, are the photogrammetry trees being rendered as autogen-style trees close-up?

20 hours ago, Gulfstream said:

Water clipping through house!

This simulator is obviously going to be a disaster!  😅

 

Really?? just because there is some type of flaw in an alpha build?

Who cares anyway we are after a flight sim not a CAD-sim...

The scenery improvements are certainly impressive, but I sure hope we see similar improvements in aircraft and flight dynamics. It is, after all, a FLIGHT simulator.

Al

Edited September 19, 20196 yr by ark

If the scenery looks this good, then maybe we can also have "plug-in" physics for boats and cars?

Imagine flying into Athens, driving to a marina, getting in a yacht and doing a bit of sailing around the Greek Isles?

5 hours ago, ronh99 said:

Look in the upper left in the grass .... rodents!!

 

 

Not "just" rodents............... Procedural rodents 🤣

The screenshots and videos coming out from this sim are just mind boggling.  I can't wait for this release.  This is truly the next generation of flight sims and what a great surprise for it to come like it has out of nowhere.  Just incredible...

This sim will be a total disaster...to the other sims.

Edited September 20, 20196 yr by dongdongliushui