24 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Volumetric clouds may be better in some respects but there’s certainly a negative side to them.

I wholeheartedly agree with this opinion.  I also firmly believe we'll get there w/ volumetric but only when voxel resolution increases substantially.  MSFS is allegedly going to see major improvement in performance secondary to better multithreading and this may supply the headroom needed to improve voxel resolution.

1 hour ago, Noel said:

I wholeheartedly agree with this opinion.  I also firmly believe we'll get there w/ volumetric but only when voxel resolution increases substantially.  MSFS is allegedly going to see major improvement in performance secondary to better multithreading and this may supply the headroom needed to improve voxel resolution.

I don’t profess to understand this as well as you do. Whether it brings users better looking clouds of greater variety remains an unknown. Nothing stays the same for long so keep your fingers crossed.

I'm holding off on purchasing certain types of add-ons until I get more information about what 2024 is going to include out of the box. MS has a habit of including a lot more that what we've been used to by default.

7 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I don’t profess to understand this as well as you do. Whether it brings users better looking clouds of greater variety remains an unknown. Nothing stays the same for long so keep your fingers crossed.

We have a long ways to go but it will be fabulous when we get there.  I hope I live long enough to see it!  I took this photo the other day outside on a walk and look forward to the day we see something like this in a flight sim:

 

7 hours ago, Noel said:

We have a long ways to go but it will be fabulous when we get there.  I hope I live long enough to see it!  I took this photo the other day outside on a walk and look forward to the day we see something like this in a flight sim:

 

If Asobo put these clouds into the sim, half of simmers will say these are too bright, the other half will say these are too dark. And endless discussions will appear illustrated by real life photos prooving they are right.

5 hours ago, Noooch said:

If Asobo put these clouds into the sim, half of simmers will say these are too bright, the other half will say these are too dark. And endless discussions will appear illustrated by real life photos prooving they are right.

Your comment reminds me of my twin kids. They're both good musicians (one plays the violin and the other the cello and have played at Carnegie Hall). When they play at home or at some other stage venue they oftentimes don't sound as good compared to when I play the exact same piece in my Klipsch audio system ie. because the acoustics in my real-life house or stage venue is not as good compared to the acoustics in a professional recording studio.

Since their real-life playing doesn't sound as good as the CD version, some would conclude that the CD version is more 'realistic'. lol.

In other words, actual reality is not the same as someone's perception of 'reality'. It's all subjective, the point being a top-of-the-line graphic card or system set-up doesn't necessarily mean it's 'as real as it gets'.

 

 

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6 hours ago, Noooch said:

If Asobo put these clouds into the sim, half of simmers will say these are too bright, the other half will say these are too dark.

I seriously doubt it instead we'd see 100% of simmers having a very hard time tearing themselves away from the sim 

I don't believe for a single second in this new MSFS 2024. No confidence at all to hope for a more realistic objective from them. Their objective is elsewhere and already well established. The MSFS 2024 “Missions” are the only way to attract new players, young girls, women, the whole family!, including the little dog! and to retain them. ( This is their only opportunity to progress ). To balance it all out, a few small realistic new features, new regular free missions and a handful of bugs fixed so that old players like me  players like me get drawn into its new curiosities... and Game over.

 

On 9/2/2023 at 2:56 AM, Noooch said:

If Asobo put these clouds into the sim, half of simmers will say these are too bright, the other half will say these are too dark. And endless discussions will appear illustrated by real life photos prooving they are right.

And they would also complain about the clouds costing 15 FPS

7 minutes ago, filou said:

I don't believe for a single second in this new MSFS 2024. No confidence at all to hope for a more realistic objective from them. Their objective is elsewhere and already well established. The MSFS 2024 “Missions” are the only way to attract new players, young girls, women, the whole family!, including the little dog! and to retain them. ( This is their only opportunity to progress ). To balance it all out, a few small realistic new features, new regular free missions and a handful of bugs fixed so that old players like me  players like me get drawn into its new curiosities... and Game over.

 

Another really positive comment. 🤬

Don't feed the troll

I will soon have a draw to determine my best follower.

 

3 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Another really positive comment. 🤬

I would say more a realist comment. He certainly doesn’t wear rose tinted glasses. I think he’s translating what he writes, but the bulk of what he writes is certainly true. 

 

2 hours ago, Krakin said:

Don't feed the troll

He isn’t a troll. People in here have a habit of calling others trolls just because they don’t agree with them. 

5 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I would say more a realist comment. He certainly doesn’t wear rose tinted glasses. I think he’s translating what he writes, but the bulk of what he writes is certainly true. 

 

He isn’t a troll. People in here have a habit of calling others trolls just because they don’t agree with them. 

When a topic that is positive is posted on a forum , and one person always has to take a negative view and rain on everyone's parade, many  call that person a troll. 

1 minute ago, Bobsk8 said:

When a topic that is positive is posted on a forum , and one person always has to take a negative view and rain on everyone's parade, many  call that person a troll. 

He’s not trolling though. He’s simply pointing out the deficiencies of the sim, and why he expects little from the new release. It’s his opinion. He may be proved wrong, he may be proved right. Who knows? 

Where is the rule that he has to remain positive?