7 hours ago, n4gix said:

t was founded by Royal Little in 1923 as the Special Yarns Company.

Dang ... I read it as 'Special Yams Company' at first... 

Tsk tsk... 

Wow! It‘s getting better and better! This is... I have to stop here, impossible to describe my feelings without using strong language at the moment.

Scenery popping at 2:56 into that new video,  look at the beach and I guess wharfs popping up on the right of the screen.

 

hopefully that will be fixed

 

Bart

Drama Queens of the Air ..... Unite!

45 minutes ago, bartp71 said:

Scenery popping at 2:56 into that new video,  look at the beach and I guess wharfs popping up on the right of the screen.

 

hopefully that will be fixed

 

Bart

There's a lot of popping. But remember it is pre-alpha footage. There's a long way to go still.

I don’t see why it would be the PMDG 747. The Asobo team will be able to do a better job than PMDG at this point in their own sim. 

8 hours ago, fsxkitty said:

Wait, what? Did PMDG actually announce this?

Yes. https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/25608-07nov19-pmdg-product-trajectory-alignment-what-to-expect-in-the-coming-weeks-months-hours-etc

 

5 hours ago, F737NG said:

Unless I've missed announcements on these:

• Control of online AI aircraft once the transponder is turned off. How do we get a landed aeroplane from a R.E.T. to the gate at the appropriate parking spot? Then how to get aeroplanes to holding short of a runway for departure without just spawning next to the active?
   
• Sky textures. I don't want random 30-day texture sets any longer. A tropical sunset should only be visible in the tropics, an arctic sunrise only once north of the polar circle. Pollution over a big city should have an effect on colour of the sky. As should time of year.

As far as I can recall, they did give some input on these aspects.

• AI: Once the online aircraft has landed, AI will take over and do the ground handling. I'm not sure how they will be doing this for departing aircraft as they won't show before the transponder is turned on, but perhaps they are looking up real world schedules to create the appropriate flights.
• We know that the sim has a full year cycle for the sun, so I would expect lower/higher sun angles to impact the colors. This seems reasonable given the amount of detail they are putting into the weather and atmosphere. They also did say pollution, humidity and air density are simulated (one of the developers even mentioned ozon levels) which will also impact the lighting, so I would think sunset/sunrise colors will respond to this as well. I mean, we even have rainbows forming realistically...

Edited November 15, 20196 yr by threegreen

10 hours ago, n4gix said:

 

How the heck a YARN company wound up a near aviation monopoly is a mystery.

I suspect that they began by selling aircraft canvas for fuselage in the heroic times. 

Edited November 15, 20196 yr by domkle

Hats off to the asobo team. We all know that PMDG will be developing for MSFS. We also know that they have an already fantastic 748 for FSX and P3D. Asobo team could have waited on PMDG to port over their 748 but they were like naah lets do our own 748. Now that is huge. This tells us two things. Firstly they are not solely relying on 3rd parties to populate their sim with accurately modeled jets. Secondly they are willing to go toe and toe with the big guns out there. Tell me that 748 doesn't look better if equally good compared to PMDGs. I mean partnership with Boeing does have its benefits lol. These guys are wizards. They have so much information. Insanely advanced tech, finance, partnership with major aircraft manufacturers and talent to put all that to work. Gentleman welcome aboard the Asobo hype train !

Finally! An A320 with wingflex in a flight sim! Hopefully they add more wingflex to the 747 tho. 

Edited November 15, 20196 yr by ifly777

It's crazy that I've been called out before for saying things like "in-game", which to some in our community seems to imply disrespect towards flight simulation.

I'm both a commercial pilot and software engineer and I honestly don't care if you call it "in-game", "in-simulator" ... whatever works for you and how you use the product.

But this is looking very impressive.

11 hours ago, ifly777 said:

Finally! An A320 with wingflex in a flight sim! Hopefully they add more wingflex to the 747 tho. 

What about 1:39 at the trailer, that’s not wingflex? 

Edited November 15, 20196 yr by 188AHC
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11 hours ago, ifly777 said:

 

Finally! An A320 with wingflex in a flight sim! Hopefully they add more wingflex to the 747 tho. 

One thing I noticed is how the shadow on the engine is sharp on the inner side near the fuselage and gradually becomes soft near the pylon. Super impressive if it is what I think it is. A very neat technique also used in Red Dead redemption 2. 

Edited November 15, 20196 yr by 188AHC
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Because no release Date was announced yesterday, I´m really thinking about that MSFS will release at the end of 2020. Maybe they will announce the date at the E3. Unfortunaly

 

1 minute ago, Pitbull2504 said:

Because no release Date was announced yesterday, I´m really thinking about that MSFS will release at the end of 2020. Maybe they will announce the date at the E3. Unfortunaly

 

Pretty sure the original E3 trailer said something about holidays 2020? Which would make sense as that’s when the new XBox is expected to release as well. Although I could be combining things.