One Year Of Island Hopping In Paradise - It's A Pilot's Life - YouTube

Bruce

2 hours ago, brucets said:

One Year Of Island Hopping In Paradise - It's A Pilot's Life - YouTube

Bruce

I love Swayne's vlogs. He is such a pleasant guy and very helpful to other young pilots. His videos are top draw.

Does MSFS look like a real life video? Honestly, sometimes it does. But, I have to admit I'm a little confused about the intentions of this post. 

27 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

But, I have to admit I'm a little confused about the intentions of this post. 

Agreed. This is just a video of a few flights, nothing to do with MSFS. One for the Video forum.

I've watched quite a few MSFS2020 videos. Some are quite realistic looking, though some don't look all the great. Videos don't necessarily portray the actual gameplay experience, with a good video card & system. I just wanted to know if the game portrays Hawaii like this real-world video on a good system. That's all. Not trying to start an argument.

Bruce

I think this looks pretty real....

I uploaded the bare metal textures here:

https://flightsim.to/file/30877/flysimware-cessna-414a-bare-metal-textures

Steve, Wow - yes, that looks terrific, great job! But I was wondering about the terrain/scenery.

Bruce

1 hour ago, brucets said:

I just wanted to know if the game portrays Hawaii like this real-world video on a good system.

Of course it won't look exactly like the video. No video game or simulator is capable of that right now. What I will say however, is that MSFS surely is the simulator that will get you closest to looking like that video and without any 3rd party scenery downloads. The default MSFS scenery out of the box cannot be beat by any other sim available. For the first time, you can do a round-the-world trip and honestly feel like you're visiting different places, not just different textures and the same autogens. If you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend it. 

OK, Thank you,Bdub22! That's pretty much what I thought.

I'm a casual simmer and pretty happy with FXS/steam, but the graphics of MSFS 2020 are very tempting!

At my age, 84, I just don't know if I should make the transition. The lights are dimming.

Thanks again.

Bruce

I'll second what Bdub said, and I'll note that it's not just the ground where the graphics advances are meaningful.  The appearance of the earth in this sim, combined with the appearance of the sky (lighting and night sky / moon / stars), combined with the weather, creates a world - out of the box - that cannot be equaled by any previous sim, even with every addon ever made for it.

It is worth pointing out that looking REALISTIC and looking GOOD are two different things.

Just a few of the controversial things the game does to look "good" rather than realistic:

1. minimises the blue haze you see on the horizon on sunny days in real life for better screenshots
2. makes the trees too tall so the forests "look better"
3. adds in all sorts of camera lens effects (hexagonal flare, ghosting and other aberrations) that do not exist in real life but people are used to seeing them in movies
4.  excessive motion blur 
5. Crazy Walt Disney fairy land night lighting including long trails of street lights on remote roads miles from civilisation

 

 

 

Edited April 14, 20224 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

16 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

It is worth pointing out that looking REALISTIC and looking GOOD are two different things.

Just a few of the controversial things the game does to look "good" rather than realistic:

1. minimises the blue haze you see on the horizon on sunny days in real life for better screenshots
2. makes the trees too tall so the forests "look better"
3. adds in all sorts of camera lens effects (hexagonal flare, ghosting and other aberrations) that do not exist in real life but people are used to seeing them in movies
4.  excessive motion blur 
5. Crazy Walt Disney fairy land night lighting including long trails of street lights on remote roads miles from civilisation

Totally agree with all that, plus the poor prop effect where they seem to want to imitate the strobe effect as if viewing through a camera.

The best terrain scenery I have seen in MSFS is the default Courcheval Airport. I have compared it with real videos of the same location, and the MSFS version looks better. I really wish there would be more sceneries like that. Have you encountered any other locations in MSFS that are of the Courcheval quality? I'd really like to know.

23 minutes ago, yanfeng12342000 said:

The best terrain scenery I have seen in MSFS is the default Courcheval Airport. I have compared it with real videos of the same location, and the MSFS version looks better. I really wish there would be more sceneries like that. Have you encountered any other locations in MSFS that are of the Courcheval quality? I'd really like to know.

Switzerland has the best satellite imagery (full country coverage, same season, no clouds) and top mesh.

It's the country that has the best representation in the game.

You can couple it with mods from flightsim.to such as the one that adds VFR obstacles, or the ski lift mod.

Additionally, the country itself is very pretty to fly in due to mountains, lakes and green fields.

Edited April 14, 20224 yr by Johnny Wyatt

A few weeks back my flying buddy and I landed at an airport in Italy. He asked if it was possible to have a look around from outside. I showed him the Developer Camera and we promptly went outside for a look around. This was at night and as I panned around and looked at the night sky I was astonished to see the constellation of Orion displayed overhead. I had a closer look and then found the Pleiades also. It is amazing to see such a level of detail in a sim.

Cheers...Kenny.