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The benefits of the terrain resolution increase

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2 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

The problem in that MSFS 2020 video are the trees. Now to be fair, when MSFS 2020 came out, the trees were really next generation for a flight simulator. But we had just come from the 2D trees in P3D and XP in 2020, so any 3D looking trees back in 2020 was better than what we had in flight simulation.

Having played MSFS 2020 over the years though, as revolutionary as the trees were for a flight simulator back in 2020 (and trees in MSFS 2020 were not revolutionary for a video game, they were just revolutionary for a flight sim), the lack of variation and the lack of accuracy of the trees began to grow on me.

I just checked some real life photos of Barron Gorge and the trees shown in that MSFS 2020 video are decent and somewhat close to the trees I saw in the Barron Gorge photo. However, I like to fly around the Vancouver metro area (Vancouver, Canada). There are a lot of trees missing from MSFS 2020 when I fly around the Vancouver metro area. There is only a few variations of trees that MSFS 2020 uses for Vancouver and it gets pretty repetitive and boring.

In MSFS 2024 however, there are more variation of trees, and the library of trees it uses is much larger. Metro Vancouver and other parts of Canada are much more fun to fly in, because all the different variations of trees can finally be seen in MSFS 2024.  Metro Vancouver now in MSFS 2024 looks much closer to real life Vancouver (albeit, there is still the problem of photogrammetry erroneously picking up trees and turning them into the ugly "photogrammetry trees" for Vancouver).

Spot on!

The new tree variation in 2024 is nice. Also notice how the new terrain LODs totally change the size scale perception of land formations.

MSFS 2024 really makes you feel entrenched low altitude terrain. 🍻

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  • The 3D trees alone is such a wonderful transformation down at ground level

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    Indeed! I was amazed by this mountain in the Alps yesterday. What an improvement over 2020!

  • I’ve been doing some illegal flying hopping over hedges and scooting low over corn fields , the sense of speed low level in VR is just fantastic.

20 hours ago, Kilo60 said:

How is the LOD Still popping on those cliff/rock edges when flying so slow on a 4090 card?

Is this still a server streaming issue?

Same at large airports. I see planes and ground equipment popping in at terminals as I taxi alongside. All settings on Ultra.

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