X-Plane Next Generation Forestry Preview

[Pascal_LSGC 298]

I know it has been mentioned in another thread, but it deserves it's own discussion.
Here it is:

 

Cheers,

Pascal

[Bjoern 1,157]

That sequece within the forest from 0:36 to 0:40 mins could be straight out of ArmA 2. 😂

Just kidding. That level of detail is just fine for a flight simulator. Probably r.i.p. framerate though.

[Pascal_LSGC 298]

23 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

[...]  Probably r.i.p. framerate though.

Not necessarily, instancing (and probably LOD) is heavily used here. Remember that the transition to Vulkan/Metal was only the beginning of possible optimizations.

[CarlosF 1,241]

Very nice indeed. Hopefully it will not require a new state-of-the-art computer. 

[scotchegg 4,186]

Looks great, especially the winter stuff with shadows coming through the branches.

[VFXSimmer 1,310]

4 hours ago, Pascal_LSGC said:

I know it has been mentioned in another thread, but it deserves it's own discussion.
Here it is:

 

Cheers,

Pascal

That’s pretty sweet!  Awesome to see!

[mSparks 2,086]

10th sept 2020 I had a bit of a rant/ tantrum on the dev slack over the trees (pretty sure here to, but i guess the thread was locked so doesnt appear in forum search results) This vid really makes me happy.

not quite

 

but definitely a move in the right direction.

[GoranM 3,771]

Loving the attention to detail.

Water patches after a storm has passed.

[Greazer 1,321]

I think they are targeting the worst aspects of XP11 -> trees, clouds, weather redraws, offline ATC, environment sounds and lighting.  But I doubt whether there will be a big leap in overall graphics and performance.

[GoranM 3,771]

1 minute ago, Greazer said:

I think they are targeting the worst aspects of XP11

You're, very likely, the only one.

2 minutes ago, Greazer said:

But I doubt whether there will be a big leap in overall graphics and performance.

Based on what?

 

If you want to talk FACTS, fair enough.  But now you're just bringing opinions into it.

[strider1 575]

4 hours ago, GoranM said:

Loving the attention to detail.

Water patches after a storm has passed.

The puddles of water look great! I like how they fade out as they are drying. I wonder if this will be dynamic. The taxiway textures also look good!

Edited July 30, 2021 by strider1

[strider1 575]

5 hours ago, mSparks said:

but definitely a move in the right direction.

We need some forest fires in XP12! Aerial firefighting would be a fun activity!

[Janov 2,383]

2 minutes ago, strider1 said:

We need some forest fires in XP12! Aerial firefighting would be a fun activity!

That actually used to be a feature in earlier XP versions...including the CL415 aircraft. But it never got upgraded to XP11 standards, so it was dropped from the default aircraft list.

[Swe_Richard 1,172]

4 hours ago, GoranM said:

Loving the attention to detail.

Water patches after a storm has passed.

Wow. That had me fooled for a photograph at first. Looks really good. 

[strider1 575]

26 minutes ago, Janov said:

That actually used to be a feature in earlier XP versions...including the CL415 aircraft. But it never got upgraded to XP11 standards, so it was dropped from the default aircraft list.

I will send Austin a feature request.