2 hours ago, 188AHC said:

Nine pages about clouds while we are still in Alpha? Good gracious. You do realize we have other forums right? 

We want everything perfect 100% with 0 glitches on the day of release, too much to ask? lol

3 hours ago, 188AHC said:

Nine pages about clouds while we are still in Alpha? Good gracious. You do realize we have other forums right? 

Clouds are important.  I plan to spend a lot of time with my head in the clouds.

The kind of challenge Asobo faces 

 

16 minutes ago, domkle said:

The kind of challenge Asobo faces 

 

I know Asobo will reply with:

Challenge Accepted

12 hours ago, GlideBy said:

 I think the overall look is important.  This one is lit by the sun.

 

My clouds are also lit by the sun. I'm the creator of the light and I concieved my cloud.

On 2/28/2020 at 12:37 PM, Stratocaster said:

I always thought that was a terrible product, and that silly H-bomb shows why.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought someone was getting nuked. 😉

 

The cloud issue doesn't worry me at all. From what I've seen, MS/Asobo is doing a great job at making good looking clouds. Yeah, they're showing cumulus and cumulonimbus right now, because those are the most interesting, visually appealing clouds in real life too. That doesn't mean we should assume they're not bothering with stratus/etc, just that they don't look as cool (unless you're a weather geek) either in real life or the sim.

And if by some chance the clouds could be improved upon... Well, ActiveSky did some really nifty things with Cloud Art. They even managed to get it to look, in most cases, like you were actually flying through clouds rather than flying at a grey wall that suddenly disappeared before it hit the windshield, and that was a pretty impressive feat considering what they were working with. I have faith that they'll be there to improve things if they need improving.

One thing that I've been thinking about, though, is live weather. Yeah, the sim will come with live weather on release day, but so did FSX and eventually that went away as contracts expired. If AS provided live weather for 2020 I'd be tempted to support them now so that they'll still be around when the contracts expire this time.

 

On 3/2/2020 at 1:50 AM, mp15 said:

My clouds are also lit by the sun. I'm the creator of the light and I concieved my cloud.

...but, this doesn't look good, though. 

On 3/1/2020 at 10:08 PM, Bear242 said:

We want everything perfect 100% with 0 glitches on the day of release, too much to ask? lol

Yes, that is actually quite a lot to ask for. I don't think in the history of gaming that a new release was 100% perfect with 0 glitches. Quite the long shot in reality. 

@Bdub22 actually that is 720p reduced into a thumbnail, if I show you that in 4K, you would fall from your chair.

49 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

Yes, that is actually quite a lot to ask for. I don't think in the history of gaming that a new release was 100% perfect with 0 glitches. Quite the long shot in reality. 

Used to happen all the time, because we didn't have the internet and there was no such thing as a post-release patch for an Atari 2600 cartridge. 😉

 

I remember back in the 80's or 90's when Sierra Online released Space Quest. It was the first time I'd ever encountered a game-breaking bug. There's a part where you have to gamble at a slot machine in order to earn enough money to buy a ship and a droid. The original Apple IIgs release had a bug that made it impossible to ever win a turn at the machine. You had to go into Egghead Software and get them to swap the second floppy with you to get the patched version -- and of course, you had to first find out that this was even an option which was hit or miss pre-internet because you didn't register games back then, so no one knew you owned it.

I only found out about it because all the salesgeeks at Egghead knew me and gave me a heads up the next time I stopped in.

 

Before then, and even after then, game developers tested their games very extensively before release because they knew they had one shot to get it right. These days, the testing seems to have fallen a bit more by the wayside because they figure they'll let the early customers be their beta testers and then release patches.

 

Of course it's a bit more complex these days too - there's a lot less going on in Super Breakout than there is in Flight Simulator. 😉

 

 

Edited March 4, 20206 yr by eslader

2 hours ago, mp15 said:

@Bdub22 actually that is 720p reduced into a thumbnail, if I show you that in 4K, you would fall from your chair.

No thanks.

2 hours ago, eslader said:

You had to go into Egghead Software 

 

Man, I had not heard that name in a LONG time. I remember going there to get games and had forgotten about them. Can’t even remember when they went out of business.

FWIW - don't have a clue what I did other than no cloud stuff in Xvision, disconnected UWXB and here's default scattered cu plus cirrus.  This is the Queenstown area of NZ with UHD mesh and a NZ overlay.

 

The eariest thing I've every experienced,  an early morning in May. Perched on the edge of Sleeping bear dunes, as fog blanketed Lake Michigan. Tendrals of mist reaching between valleys, and wind throwing sand in your face. You look over the edge of the 450 foot drop, you cant judge the distance but you hear the water lapping at the coast, but you cant see it. You feel dizzy from a sense of motion with the fog billowing, your all alone.  I hope to experience this from the air.

6 hours ago, Casualcas said:

The eariest thing I've every experienced,  an early morning in May. Perched on the edge of Sleeping bear dunes, as fog blanketed Lake Michigan. Tendrals of mist reaching between valleys, and wind throwing sand in your face. You look over the edge of the 450 foot drop, you cant judge the distance but you hear the water lapping at the coast, but you cant see it. You feel dizzy from a sense of motion with the fog billowing, your all alone.  I hope to experience this from the air.

That was poetic.