1 hour ago, Sticky said:

Rarely works for me. Just silly avsim can't host their own images.

Don't be silly, of course it works.  There will be a share option wherever your photos are hosted.  Get the URL from that share option and directly post it in your Avsim post.  If your photo hosting site is giving you grief, use another one.  I have never had a problem with https://postimages.org/ for example.

Imgur has an excellent GUI. I log into imgur with Google using a single mouse click. It keeps me logged in for a month.

Click your user name on upper right and choose images. Then choose New Post. At that point you can click on the URl to upload pic from net, or click on Choose to upload from hard disk. Right click your name again and choose images again. Click on your new image and then choose Direct Link. That puts the link in your clipboard, which you post on Avsim forum.

Nevermind. I don't want to be offensive.

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by Sticky

9 minutes ago, Sticky said:

It's ridiculous in 2024 I have to upload an image somewhere else then copy and paste the link here. Even with a reasonable limit of images are deleted after 60 days, 50gb of hosting is what like $10 maybe $30 a month? That's a whole lot of screen shots.  Avsim cannot swing that? Just how bad are things here?

Have you seen how often the servers on this site poop themselves?

2 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

What hate?  I don't see it.  Do you have any examples?  If not, please be careful not to exaggerate for no good reason.  I use 2020 but will simply switch to 2024 after release.  No hate from me or any other people on here as far as I can see.

There is plenty in YT coments and stuff here like 'MSFS looks dated'. It exists i'm not making it up. 

3 minutes ago, flightyjoe said:

There is plenty in YT coments and stuff here like 'MSFS looks dated'. It exists i'm not making it up. 

I am going to have to disagree that my comment had anything to do with hate. In fact, I am loving my sim (2020) at the moment, but stand by my previous comment.

2 hours ago, Saffa_Jake812 said:

I am going to have to disagree that my comment had anything to do with hate. In fact, I am loving my sim (2020) at the moment, but stand by my previous comment.

Exactly. It is possible for 2020 to look dated and still be enjoyable.

Just looking at the mud on those Cubs makes the current sim look a bit dated. I hope the 3pds re-edit their glass models to be default clean so the dirt can build up naturally instead of being whatever they stuck on them while texturing them.

 

7 hours ago, flightyjoe said:

There is plenty in YT comments and stuff here like 'MSFS looks dated'.  It exists i'm not making it up. 

Yes, I have seen those, but saying 'MSFS looks dated' is far from 'hate'.

On 9/21/2024 at 6:52 PM, Fielder said:

What the testers all saw was the Grand Canyon biome.

By the way, it would be unwise to walk up a hill or down a road if not in the 1% or less special hand modified biomes in 2024. The result would not be pleasant.

The airports, at least the bespoke ones, will surely also provide nice results when you wander around on foot.  

Sarcasm?

No sarcasm. The truth. The pleasant walks in the countryside and hills we see in the previews are at selected sites. The idea that MSFS has carefully groomed the whole world in such a manner is not one that I can entertain as very plausible.

23 minutes ago, Fielder said:

No sarcasm. The truth. The pleasant walks in the countryside and hills we see in the previews are at selected sites. The idea that MSFS has carefully groomed the whole world in such a manner is not one that I can entertain as very plausible.

Exactly, there are modded airports with a lot of detail so its possible but to believe that every piece of the earth in MSFS24 is given the exact same level of care and love will leave people disappointed. 

As it is MSFS you can fly one area and it looks stunning, fly another area and its very lacking and I can accept why that is. I see MSFS 24 being no different.

 

I'd be worried if MSFS2020 didn't look dated when alongside MSFS24, but it does so far from what I've seen. Does that make the predecessor bad looking all of a sudden? Certainly not, it's still and will continue to look gorgeous in certain scenarios.

5 hours ago, Fielder said:

No sarcasm. The truth. The pleasant walks in the countryside and hills we see in the previews are at selected sites. The idea that MSFS has carefully groomed the whole world in such a manner is not one that I can entertain as very plausible.

The fact that you can't entertain something as very plausible doesn't necessarily make it the truth. 😉 

Edited September 23, 20241 yr by mistolip

Seen a clip of the first career mode flight and there were two very noticeable lines of distinction in the visuals.  There was a bubble of full autogen around the user, which gave way firstly to an obvious secondary bubble of partial autogen beyond it.  At a further distance it was clear that there was no autogen at all.   Very reminiscent of how P3D operated.  I do hope that was down to settings and isnt reflective of how the sim runs all the time.

I mean, unless you're running a supercomputer, there's almost no way to do full autogen all the way to the horizon. Hopefully it handles things better than 2020, where sometimes the runway lines 50 feet in front of the plane blur out, but I have no expectation that it's going to be ultra sharp 20+ miles away.