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Spectacular water effects in MSFS

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On 9/22/2020 at 9:00 PM, MauBen said:

I tried this the other day but actually got water spray and wakes from my wheels touching the water. 

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4 hours ago, Noel said:

Nothing eh?  It's so easy to describe how the sim deviates from reality, but this is vastly better than anything else in the total flight sim world, 

First, did you check when I wrote this post? I am long time settled with this little drawback now. Then, as others pointed out, P3Dv5.x waves on ultra DO offer what I was missing, so dont try to tell that no other flightsim gets this right...

Greetings, Chris

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2x32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM, MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, Windows 11 Home, MSFS2024

Yeah the water effects are basic at best, sure they look ok at height and under certain conditions, nothing more positive can be said about them other than that IMO.

yes they confirmed in the last or recent Q&A that they are looking at the effects - I say take your time Asobo and get it right - 70% of the Earth is covered by water so on that basis alone it demands complete attention from a team there. They say they are looking at tides - wow that would be incredible and another step again.

in the mean time we need real particles effects, land on water your plane gets wet right - so simulate it👍

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I showed my wife the wave effects that are produced when the wind speed is cranked up. She said "Wow! That looks great!". Well, I said to her, it's OK, but is just a visual effect. "What?" she said. I explained that there is no physics there, it's just an illusion. "But isn't the simulator itself just an illusion?", she asked. "Clearly, I said, you do not understand flight simming -- the problem is that float planes landing on these waves do not exhibit any effects such as bouncing around, as they would in real life." She answered "But would any real-life pilot ever land on waves that big?" "Of course not", I said. "Well", she said, "then what's the problem? Anyway, last week you were complaining that the float planes had no wakes. Now they have them and you are still unhappy. Are you never satisfied?" "Now", I said, "you are beginning to understand".

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