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Very happy to be wrong about my thinking that ground details such as rocks were hand placed for the trailer. I should have had more faith, forgive me Asobo haha

Exciting! Like 2020 all over again

That’s… less than ideal

They seem too perfect to be photogrammetry. I’d say they’re hand modelled using the photogrammetry textures.

Especially since in the 3rd snapshot image it says it’ll come with SU12 haha

You don’t have the //42 Stripper program do you?

Unfortunately, and I’d love to be wrong, it looked to me like they were hero assets for the trailer. If you look a bit further you can see the ground with the detail we have today. You could be right and maybe the radius of items is quite small which would make sense. As I said I’d love to be wrong. Putting your plane/heli down in some random location and having that level of detail to step out onto is a dream. One thing that has improved a lot is the apron textures. They’re so sharp! And the painted lines look real!

Surely the 747 is the only one that lives up to the “ultimate” status

Does it look like grass has gotten shorter? Might sound ridiculous but the grass is quite long currently with no way to mow it 🙂 Could there be multiple types of grass? The last scene seems to show Savana type grass (it may already be in MSFS?), which could indicate improving areas outside the Western countries. Thanks for this topic, let us try to keep it more positive that the others 🙂

No, we were promised 10 years of support for the MSFS sub-forum

I don’t know why I keep coming back to this thread, it just makes me angry. Sucker for punishment I guess.

Yes, yes, yes… but are the trees too tall?

Looks good! When’s the next Dev Q&A? Should be soon, the last one was 4th of May.

What will using the Vulkan API bring?

Always seems strange to see nobody in the seat next to you. This has a lot of potential!

Could of course be from a 3rd party they're assisting

Spotted on the new SDK documentation section for parallax windows on aircraft. One of the examples is using a 737 MAX... interesting... Parallax Windows (flightsimulator.com)

The way they all went quiet, surely, it's on all of their minds and will maybe be the surprise for SU13? Personally I don't really care about ATC. I'd much rather see the ground handling overhaul. But given that the "best people" are working on it (assuming Seb) it's probably a nice change of scenery for him.

Ping @toprob

Hole in the rock, Bay of Islands NZ

Do you have the CowanSim Big 500? How does it compare with it, or the Cabri flight feeling wise?

Stockholm simdrome

Prepar3d is a professional sim whereas FSX is for entertainment only, so that’s reflected in the price…. wait a minute

Thanks! Yeah pretty easy for this paint. Only a couple of places to pixel push to line them up across seams.

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