August 6th, 2020 - Development/Insider Update

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

AUGUST 6TH, 2020 DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

POSTED BY: MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR TEAM

Screenshot by Snapmatics9160

 

“This place is about to get very busy soon.”

• Avsim User
•  

12 days and counting!

This message brought to you in part by:

Tree Height Truthers – working hard to make sure you can see the forest through the trees.

– MSFS TEAM

 

PARTNERSHIP SERIES UPDATE – INTRODUCING BLACKSHARK.ai!

 

SDK UPDATE

We officially started the Microsoft Flight Simulator Marketplace Partnership Program on July 18th and several hundred companies have already applied. We could not be more excited about all the cool creations coming to the platform in the months and years ahead. On the SDK side, based on feedback from the 3rd party community, we are targeting most of our efforts on the areas that matter to them. Sometimes, functionality is already available but is not yet clearly exposed or documented. Recent examples of that are the custom jetways and the functionality of our light system. We will demonstrate both in an updated scenery sample and apso will provide more thorough documentation.

We also keep improving support for WebAssembly, with improved stability, asynchronous loading and more flexibility. The Developer Mode saw several important bug fixes and new utility tools make the developer’s life easier. We improved overall stability and improved taxiway sign editing as well as projected meshes support.

Last but not least, in order to fully support Flight Simulator as a platform, we are actively looking at reinforcing the SDK team in the next few months as we want to ensure that the 3rd party community gets everything they need from our toolset.

 

FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT PREVIEW NOW AVAILABLE

We have released a preview version of our upcoming Feedback Snapshot in the Insider Area

 

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

The team is working on an updated version of the Development Roadmap that will update all planned deliverables post launch (i.e. August – November). We expect to have a preview version of this available post launch, targeting end of August.

 

MORE AMAZING SCREENSHOTS FROM ALPHA TESTERS

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NEXT UPDATE – 08.13

Sincerely,

Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

Edited August 7, 2020 by ChaoticBeauty

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

AUGUST 6TH, 2020 INSIDER UPDATE

POSTED BY: MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR TEAM

FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT

Edited August 6, 2020 by ChaoticBeauty

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Crazy good shot

[bonchie 2,305]

lol...it looks like someone posted a real photograph in the beta forum screen shot thread and they picked it by accident. You can see it doesn't have watermarks and the horizon atmospherics are different.

But it's pretty nuts that most will think it's the sim. That's how good things look.

Edited August 6, 2020 by bonchie

[Xtremekh 32]

 

Did a real pic sneak in there?

[bonchie 2,305]

Just now, Xtremekh said:

 

Did a real pic sneak in there?

Someone probably posted a comparison shot in the beta thread they pull these screenshots from and it got chosen by mistake.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Ah not to shabby - not enough talk about the lighting engine - its spectacular 

Edited August 6, 2020 by Richard Sennett

[LHookins 3,102]

Thirty minutes from deploying a new algorithm to it processing the entire globe.  That... is impressive.

Hook

[joec63 253]

They read everything here:

“This place is about to get very busy soon.”

• Avsim User

 

 

and this is directed to the insiders...lol

 

Tree Height Truthers – working hard to make sure you can see the forest through the trees.

– MSFS TEAM

Edited August 6, 2020 by joec63

[Wewk584 137]

Did the update  come down or am i nuts? The latest i see is 30th

[cmpbellsjc 2,960]

@ChaoticBeauty

Pretty soon we’re going to run out of 🌲🌲🌲 for you, 😂😂

 

[Wewk584 137]

NM.. its up.. the real pic is gone tho.

[ca_metal 2,015]

5 minutes ago, Wewk584 said:

Did the update  come down or am i nuts? The latest i see is 30th

There was a real pic among the screenshots. They are probably fixing it.

[regis9 3,999]

“Tree Height Truthers“...Asobo is hilarious, i love it!

[snglecoil 1,828]

Good to see the Incomplete G1000 on the issues list.  No indication that work is in progress though. Hope improving it is on the roadmap. 🤞