I wonder if the ground vehicles will be generic, or will they represent the region / country the airport is in? 

Just now, Noodle said:

Because it's an early alpha? Because it's an AI airplane.

Amazing that you hawk eyed sceptics missed the fact that the wings are flexed as if in flight. 

This is my shocked face. 😐

well somebody has to tell the AI that in that particular place the wheels should sit higher or more precisely sit in top of whatever static geometry as concrete. However in the MP episode there is a playable aircraft also sinking wheels in the ground too.

I did saw the flexed wings on the plane parked but I'm not worried about this, even in the 3ds Max is possible to bend shapes.

 

 

3 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

I'm guessing it's probably one of the handful they made detailed

Looks a little "bland" to be a detailed airport, my guess is it's generic.

4 minutes ago, MatthewS said:

Looks a little "bland" to be a detailed airport, my guess is it's generic.

Which is good. Already 1000+ times a generic P3D V5 airport. Which looked horrible in some latest screens. 

thanks MS/Asobo for keeping us in the loop.

and while we are at it, moving Jetway bridge can't be directly connected to terminal buildings, it has to have a pivoting point connected to a static bridge, just being picky for not being selected for alpha testing.

@tomsim congrats man, well deserved.

Just now, MatthewS said:

Looks a little "bland" to be a detailed airport, my guess is it's generic.

if you look at the tiles at the walls, right in the frontal angle edge, tiles textures don't match the edge they added a thin column of tiles, a generic and procedural spider builder would make those tiles match in mathematical precision, so those tiles tell me that airport is hand made, maybe they should scrooge less on art directors.

Edited April 17, 20206 yr by mp15

4 minutes ago, mp15 said:

if you look at the tiles at the walls, right in the frontal angle, tiles don't match the angle, they added a thin column of tiles, a generic and procedural spider builder would make those tiles match in mathematical precision, so those tiles tell me that airport is hand made, maybe they should add more art directors.

You wish! 

You're not getting a job with them. Dreamer! 😄😄😄

black art magicians like me are always called in when push comes to shove..

20 minutes ago, Doug47 said:

I wonder if the ground vehicles will be generic, or will they represent the region / country the airport is in? 

Please Asobo add some regional/country variety, nothing worse than seeing the same old thing at every airport.

Well, if the "black arts" professor who makes 3d aircraft models that are the equivalent of a kindergarten macaroni art project says I should be worried, then I'm definitely convinced!

I'm sure if they ever need some Minecraft or Roblox art assets, he'll be the first person they "call in". Stay ready chief!

 

Edited April 17, 20206 yr by Noodle

2 hours ago, NZ255 said:

Neural text to speech for... ATC? 😄

https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/microsoft-s-new-neural-text-to-speech-service-helps-machines-speak-like-people/

 

This is what excites me the most from this update. I think ATC will be epic!

Also I am happy testers will be able to put their hands on the 747 soon.

Great update as always thanks.

I wonder what happened to the"pre-release build update"?

I understood the partnership update and the IFR episode have been postponed but what about that ? It suddenly disapeared and no one seems to care. Wasn't it the most anticipated item for today ? At least for me it was... I am grateful to be able to see the evolution week after week but I will start not to look at their roadmap anymore.

Edited April 17, 20206 yr by Noooch

Still waiting for a invite signed up first day for Microsoft might be simulator. Let’s see how they deliver! Wondering now how the performance will be with Pmdg in comparison to Prepared V5 since I want a flight simulator not a 🦒 simulator

Edited April 17, 20206 yr by rob0203

When I saw the screenshot by 'WhiteLight506' where the TBM landed on an alpine meadow with the door open, I thought that's a picnic trip, but then, there is ice on the windshield, too cold for a picnic in the mountains, it was probably an emergency landing due to the icing :-).

11 minutes ago, Noooch said:

This is what excites me the most from this update. I think ATC will be epic!

Also I am happy testers will be able to put their hands on the 747 soon.

Great update as always thanks.

I wonder what happened to the"pre-release build update"?

I understood the partnership update and the IFR episode have been postponed but what about that ? It suddenly disapeared and no one seems to care. Wasn't it the most anticipated item for today ? At least for me it was... I am grateful to be able to see the evolution week after week but I will start not to look at their roadmap anymore.

I was also going to post a link to the article @NZ255 posted, but he beat me to it. I'm eager to learn more about how they're specifically employing the tech in MSFS. Maybe the IFR episode will cover it?

Hopefully it will result in convincing ATC with the flexibility of editing simple text--as opposed to rerecording thousands of audio files--to accommodate regional differences in ATC procedure/phraseology.

I also agree about the updates. I assume there's a language barrier, because it always seems like they're talking about updating the update...then we don't see that content.

Big allowance for the weird times we're living in, but I've also given up trying to make heads or tails of some of the updates. The language of the Alpha testing expansion is a prime example...

Maybe it's because they're leaving PR to the actual developers instead of professional PR folks? Something that anyone who ever felt bamboozled by the well-intentioned artist's rendering of the FSX DX10 update should find comfort in.

Regardless, the interviews, screenshots, and videos are enough for me. They're substantive updates, straight from the devs, with consistent timing and sufficient frequency. I think they can afford to drop some of the ancillary update stuff. Keep the salad and give me the meat and potatoes. 

I think they still have a long way to go until they have the full build in testing, that when performance will be tested and any issues found.