TWITCH MSFS Development Livestream

[Tuskin38 6,635]

4 minutes ago, Axis3600 said:

What will this famous Scenery Gateway be used for ?

People can make and submit their own updated airports (using default objects) to a library.

I can't remember if then Asobo will review them and include them in the base Sim like X-Plane does, or if it's a library that people can download from.

Edited March 22, 2023 by Tuskin38

[DAD 2,659]

41 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

can't remember if then Asobo will review them

IIRC user may download scenery „mods“ and vote and when a threshold of positive votes is reached that „mod“ will be rolled out for all users

[Room112 28]

I think it's only to allow users to update generic information like taxiways and parking spots - not actually alter or add structures to airports. And yes, I also read that the amendments would be voted in, but I'm not clear on the mechanism.

[micstatic 4,340]

I’m a little disappointed no Honolulu given this announcement 

[Farlis 2,317]

48 minutes ago, micstatic said:

I’m a little disappointed no Honolulu given this announcement 

Well wouldn't that technically have to be part of a further U.S. update?

[scotchegg 4,240]

3 hours ago, pstrub said:

World Update 13 Oceania! Including Hawaii

Excellent, glad to see some other parts of the world getting some love.

[polosim 858]

I hope Papua New Guinea receives special treatment and that they manage to capture in a realistic way the atmosphere of this bush flying paradise. Nice choice for a WU.

[lwt1971 7,456]

Great developer stream once again by MS/Asobo, here are my notes with timestamped links:

WASM + XBox

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h11m23s
• important to note some of the support coming here also helps someone like PMDG looking to implement their C++ based codebase for both PC and XBox

Helicopter improvements (Seb)

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h14m27s
• smoothed governor activation engine RPM
• added support for governor switch for turbine engines
• added support for engine trimmer
• improved support for correlators, multi engine, rotor friction, brake

Thermals + gliders improvements (Seb)

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h17m06s
• based on tonnes of feedback from community, lot of improvements
• impact of sunlight energy: time of day, date, wind ... impact of clouds ... impact of storm clouds and winds
• extreme thermals and turbulence conditions
• turbulence control now available, does not take away thermals
• video on improvements in realistic turbulence mode: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h18m29s
  • thermals are very dependent on solar irradiance, latitude, time of day, etc play a big role
  • thermals are quite well aligned and appropriate according to clouds (and clouds' density/etc) in the sim now
    • keep in mind the visual representation don't quite show the true alignment in sim since it's visually hard to do
  • wind shear, vortex systems etc can arise in extreme situations
  • there are more planned improvements to keep improving thermals, and to keep implementing more from community feedback and gathering feedback from more pilots

AI/Traffic improvements

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h24m32s
• fixes/changes detailed in release notes
• Q: are there are deeper architectural improvements coming for AI/traffic? ... A: yes
• Q: 3rd party help? ... A: all improvements done to simconnect will help

Stability/crashes/connectivity investigation and fixes/improvements

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h28m20s

Content/roadmap updates

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h43m08s
• various WU and planes updates/fixes from partners
• bridges fixes coming across all WUs (lots of hand editing, there's a team for this now)
• SU13 coming in August, and a surprise coming with it!
  • https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=01h42m32s
• Jorg: we read the forums all the time, and a whole team is there to surface Qs/issues to dev team

Q&A:

• Future of legacy flight model (Seb)
  • https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h44m52s
  • no plans to remove it as of now, trying to stay compatible with existing aircraft
• DirectX 12
  • https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h46m13s
  • always will keep improving, fix rendering issues, do optimization, etc
  • still considered in beta, and in future will be default
• Responding to serious issues with MSFS services, especially during weekends/holidays/etc
  • https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h48m41s
• Ground handling improvements
  • https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h54m21s
  • so far some interim improvements/fixes already released (i.e. 4 new parameters for flight model config introduced in SU10 that various aircraft have adopted)
  • re-work has started, but will take a while

World update 13: Oceania

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=00h56m05s
• all I can say is that it looks amazing, quite stoked to fly this personal favorite part of the world

Expert series video by Hans, ATR 42

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=01h02m10s
• great detailed progress/feature update
• more details/report also at https://fselite.net/content/hans-hartmann-atr-for-msfs-preview/
• these video series are supposed to be on in-depth simulation topics and tech

Marketplace

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=01h28m10s

MS/Asobo will be at FSExpo 2023 in Houston

• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1772471519?t=01h36m14s
   

 

 

Edited March 23, 2023 by lwt1971

[micstatic 4,340]

24 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Well wouldn't that technically have to be part of a further U.S. update?

Why do you say that?  Hawaii is in fact seeing some updates with this world update 

[pmb 5,138]

2 minutes ago, polosim said:

I hope Papua New Guinea receives special treatment and that they manage to capture in a realistic way the atmosphere of this bush flying paradise. Nice choice for a WU.

Given that the WU is made with ORBX and ORBX had a very nice PNG scenery for Prepar3d, we could have hopes. Not sure, if those who once made PNG are still with ORBX those days, though.

Kind regards, Michael 

[abennett 177]

Eugh nothing about weather again. For me, that’s the biggest thing I would like to see improved. Clouds back to as good as they used to be, lightning, and thunderstorms back, weather either accurate to meteoblue forecast or metar.

Would also like to see LOD distances but back to how they used to be, rather than the smaller distances we see detailed terrain displayed now.

[scotchegg 4,240]

24 minutes ago, pmb said:

Given that the WU is made with ORBX and ORBX had a very nice PNG scenery for Prepar3d, we could have hopes. Not sure, if those who once made PNG are still with ORBX those days, though.

Kind regards, Michael 

I’m hoping they’ve got some good aerials. It truly is bush flying paradise, but the current orthos have a lot of clouds and other problems.

[vbazillio 2,395]

So finally, we didn't get back to the "What about freeware in the Market Place" 😉 And I wasn't enough to send something in the chat box 😉

[mspencer 438]

8 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

I’m hoping they’ve got some good aerials. It truly is bush flying paradise, but the current orthos have a lot of clouds and other problems.

Last month or so I've been flying around the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, etc. in the Islander. Truly awesome flying, but 100% agree. 

I would really, really like to see them define a lot more of the small fields, I'm sure they will. Also, a surface type for coral runway would be rad - I've run into plenty of airports that say coral but it's grass, or the strip is entirely missing and we're going somewhere else now.

[abennett 177]

12 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

I’m hoping they’ve got some good aerials. It truly is bush flying paradise, but the current orthos have a lot of clouds and other problems.

I really wish that the WU focussed more on improving the terrain textures rather than just adding POIs. I can’t say I’ve ever been one to fly around looking at POIs but am always looking at the terrain textures. And some of it is really bad still even in areas where there has been WUs. Of course just my view, I’m sure others love checking out the POIs.