September 3, 20205 yr Went to Vegas for a little sight seeing, very very nice during the day but, tried to set clock to 10 pm, Casinos have no lights ?? can anyone confirm ? Alain from Montreal
September 3, 20205 yr 8 minutes ago, aljones said: Went to Vegas for a little sight seeing, very very nice during the day but, tried to set clock to 10 pm, Casinos have no lights ?? can anyone confirm ? Alain from Montreal Yeah I was pretty disappointed after flying into Vegas at night last week. The buildings are there, but not brightly lit like I expected. I don't know if the city is hand done or just really good AI on the ground texture as a quick look showed the buildings were there but I didn't look to see how accurate it was. AMD Ryzen 9950X3D | Asrock X870E Taichi | Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 w/EK waterblock | Full Custom Loop Cooling | Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5-6000 | Samsung & WD NVME/SSDs | Phanteks Enthoo 719 | Seasonic Vertex Gold 1200W | Keychron Q5 Max | Corsiar Scimitar Elite SE Wireless | Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo | Logitech Pro Flight Pedals | VKB Gladiator Pro NXT L&R handed | MiniCockpit MiniFCU | Alienware AW34DWF | Asus PG279Q | Win 11 Pro
September 3, 20205 yr Yes looks terrible at night i9-10900k * 64GB 3600MHz Ram * RTX 3090 running 3 75" 4k displays smoothly. Full 737 MAX enclosed cockpit from FDS
September 4, 20205 yr I don't think there is a photogrammetry texture for night time, so all the buildings are dark. Autogen buildings might have night textures, but then you lose out on the "uniqueness" of the buildings and are left with generic buildings. Do a test and turn off photogrammetry and rerun at night. Are the buildings lit? They won't be the right size or possibly even shape, but you should see lit up buildings I would think.
September 4, 20205 yr agreed, Las Vegas doesn't look finished. The lights look cut and paste like the other cities Kind regards, Tim CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K (OC 4.7) CPU COOLER: Noctua nh-d15S GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti FTW2 8GB SSD: Crucial MX500 1TB HDD: Seagate 500GB - Maxtor 250GB - WD 250GB RAM: Team Vulcan 16 GB MBD: Gigabyte Z370P D3 PSU: Evga 650w OS: Win 10 Pro
September 4, 20205 yr I think photogrammetry is great, but does have some limitations at this time, such as distinctive night lighting for some buildings and the infamous "wall" under bridges. Hope to see this improved in the future... Ken
September 4, 20205 yr 9 minutes ago, BaronKen said: I think photogrammetry is great, but does have some limitations at this time, such as distinctive night lighting for some buildings and the infamous "wall" under bridges. Hope to see this improved in the future... I even checked google earth and they don't have a "night" mode. So it's pretty unreasonable to think that there is any photogrammetry data that would have night textures. It's much easier to develop a "handful" of generic building textures and build a day and night texture for them. Then let autogen do the rest. But if you are going to use photogrammetry, you're going to be dark. You simply can't make night textures for every single photogrammetric building out there. This means an opportunity for scenery designers. In the meantime, if we are flying at night, turning off photogrammetry should give us a close enough approximate of night lighting in urban areas. And, since it's dark, we won't really recognize them as autogen buildings as easily. Just a thought.
September 4, 20205 yr I was very disappointed with the Luxor sky light not present... FS2020 Alienware Aurora R11 10th Gen Intel Core i7 10700F - Windows 11 Home 32GB Ram NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super OC 16GB - Pimax Crystal Light VR
September 4, 20205 yr 11 minutes ago, wthomas33065 said: This means an opportunity for scenery designers. In the meantime, if we are flying at night, turning off photogrammetry should give us a close enough approximate of night lighting in urban areas. And, since it's dark, we won't really recognize them as autogen buildings as easily. Just a thought. Yup, hope Vegas can be lit up by some devoted developers! Latest video at The Flight Level Flight Over Frozen Lake Erie - Between Ice and Clouds - Ultimate Solitude - The Perfect Memory
September 4, 20205 yr FlyTampa have done good Las Vegas scenery for X-plane11 Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
September 4, 20205 yr 10 minutes ago, sd_flyer said: FlyTampa have done good Las Vegas scenery for X-plane11 And P3D....Would love to see this ported over. FlyTampa does a great job
September 4, 20205 yr Ok, now that I have flown the area at night and now know what I'm talking about, I must say that MS has done at least an honest attempt to add night lighting to photogrammetric buildings. Sure, it looks like a net of Christmas Tree lights draped over the building, often make no sense and don't show up until you are right up on the building, but it's a start. And as others have said, a great opportunity exists for scenery designers to develop some mind blowing scenery's as the canvas is pretty astonishing to begin with. That being said, What's been offered thus far vanilla out of the box has FAR exceeded anything released thus far. And as someone who had to suffer through flying through Minecraft crafted clouds in FS98, let me say that my sunset flight from KFLL to KEYW tonight was sublime,
September 4, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, environmental_ice said: And P3D....Would love to see this ported over. FlyTampa does a great job I would also like to see their KLAS ported soon! Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
September 4, 20205 yr Everything isn't going to be perfect, but I was surprised to see that Vegas had no special attention for the night lighting. I "will" be the first in line to buy an addon that does Vegas night...right....and this is coming from a guy who swore he would not buy scenery addons for MSFS. But its Vegas man, we have to get Vegas right. I have bought a Vegas addon for every other flight sim out there...including DCS world.
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