July 22nd, 2021 - Development Update

[dtrjones 356]

1 hour ago, tweekz said:

So I guess this screenshot teases seasons? Soon?

Yeah I don't understand this 'seasons' screenshot winner choice for 'tundra'. Obviously this is taken from the community with one of the third party seasons add-on installed. The screenshot winners have been odd choices in general and this one is no different. I don't think this has any relation what-so-ever to seasons officially coming in MSFS beyond the window of 2022 but if it does come sooner that would be most welcome and would be subtle clever way of promoting it.

My favourite tundra screenshot is forzakingfam which is incredible.

Edited July 22, 2021 by dtrjones

[Flyfaster_MTN002 412]

Releasing Xbox AND Sim Update V on the same day!?  What could possibly go wrong.... 🙂

[iFlySimX 762]

19 minutes ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Releasing Xbox AND Sim Update V on the same day!?  What could possibly go wrong.... 🙂

What a good point....Boy this is going to be fun....

[Amon1973 1,428]

36 minutes ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Releasing Xbox AND Sim Update V on the same day!?  What could possibly go wrong.... 🙂

If most of the Xbox crowd have already pre-downloaded their copy it might not as bad as I initially feared.

[JBDB-MD80 1,489]

58 minutes ago, eaim1973 said:

If most of the Xbox crowd have already pre-downloaded their copy it might not as bad as I initially feared.

I believe there will be way more SU5 downloads than there will be XBox copies downloaded but MS could of probably saved the cluster **** by not releasing them both at the same time. Maybe XBox on Wednesday and SU5  on Tuesday.

[peppy197 165]

3 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

I believe there will be way more SU5 downloads than there will be XBox copies downloaded but MS could of probably saved the cluster **** by not releasing them both at the same time. Maybe XBox on Wednesday and SU5  on Tuesday.

Or SU5 NOW and XBox  next week

[bendead 1,090]

3 hours ago, BijanStudio said:

That' just default scenery with different level of snow and different lighting. 

What's wrong with that? until they can get enough data.

Some places will never get accurate winter, not enough or even none daylight hours

Edited July 23, 2021 by bendead

[BijanStudio 896]

17 minutes ago, bendead said:

What's wrong with that? until they can get enough data.

Some places will never get accurate winter, not enough or even none daylight hours

Nothing wrong with it at all. Few suggested it's a mod. i just think it's the default scenery.

[fppilot 4,407]

3 hours ago, iFlySimX said:

What a good point....Boy this is going to be fun....

So I have a flight planned to Kansas City on Monday to take in a 4 game series between the Chicago White Sox and KC Royals.  So I should be good until after the Thursday afternoon game!  😜

Edited July 23, 2021 by fppilot

[Republic3D 1,232]

LOD Problems - Trees, water - Several Releases SU 6 - SU 7. 

Does this mean trees fix does not arrive until the next two updates?

[MrFuzzy 2,124]

9 hours ago, tweekz said:

So I guess this screenshot teases seasons? Soon?

Well, he mentions full cycle of day-night and seasons in the video.

[cmpbellsjc 2,963]

@ChaoticBeauty Late 🌲 for you this time. Forgot it was Thursday 😂

[joec63 253]

13 hours ago, jbdbow1970 said:

I believe there will be way more SU5 downloads than there will be XBox copies downloaded but MS could of probably saved the cluster **** by not releasing them both at the same time. Maybe XBox on Wednesday and SU5  on Tuesday.

 

I think it will Xbox by far. 23M have Game Pass as of April '21. There will be plenty of curiosity on a new title since it was announced coming to the platform. I have an Xbox Series X and I'll be curios just to see how it performs.

[Gulfstream 416]

That video on the Visual Effects SDK is mind-blowing when you think about how advanced this simulator is just from the SDK tools alone.

That node-graph editor running live inside the sim is just another example of how far ahead Asobo/Microsoft are with this.

Stuff like this will help to create a vibrant 3rd party ecosystem.  I would not want to be a competitor to this product at the moment.  The engineering effort behind even the SDK tools is formidable.

[dtrjones 356]

10 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

Well, he mentions full cycle of day-night and seasons in the video.

Yeah I thought 'seasons' mentioned in the video was a slip of the tongue, I still do actually but now this screenshot has been selected - mounting evidence? 🙂

Edited July 23, 2021 by dtrjones