Woohoo! They look niiiiiice!

I like the cliffs that show *layers* instead of the standard FS "granite outcrop".  I wonder if they will be *geologically*/*geographically* accurate?

Razgriz wrote on Dec 24^th, 2010 at 1:28am:

if they do it right you'll be able to play it with the new computers of today i hope 

For anyone who doesn't think Flight looks much better than FSX, here is a comparison to prove you wrong. 





The FSX shot was taken with terrain settings maxed out. If you open each  screenshot in a new tab and flip back and fourth between them, you'll  see that different parts of them almost match up. (I did my best at  lining up the FSX shot)

BrandonF wrote on Dec 24^th, 2010 at 1:47pm:



You have proved nothing with those shots. 

Now, install REX for the water, and FTX for the ground, and the FSX shot would look almost identical to the Flight shot.

The sky already look pretty close.

Also, where do you begin to think that your system is up to snuff with whatever system took that Flight shot? 

Flight could look just like your FSX shot on your system, and FSX could look just like Flight on their system.
I see that circumstance here in our screen shot forums everyday. What looks great on one setup, will look like poop on another, lesser setup.


Default to default, Flight may look a better, but FSX can be made to look just as good (for now)

This sounds just like all of the "FS9 can look just as good as FSX" debates from a few years back.

I'm hoping they go for more of the IL2 Birds of Prey look. 
Now that's detail.  

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Excepted that FS9 could not look as good as default FSX. No matter what payware addon you would install in FS9, you would still get blurry 5m/pixel ground textures, while the default ground textures of FSX were crisp at 1m/pixel !

In the shots above, there are only two to three things that REALLY look better than what FSX is able to display:
- the trees have better shadows, see shot #3. Same goes for the aircraft shadow, visible in one of the videos. It seems that FINALLY the plane will get a visible shadow even on a slopy ground surface ! FSX cannot do that.
- the scenery shadow (shadow of the hill in the valley) seems to cast shadow on autogen objects (see the valley shot above, the trees on the right side), as well as on the planes !! (see takeoff video) FSX cannot do that.
- the rivers seem to be shiny, but it's hard to say if it's really the usual river texture or if they did a really tiny water body FSX *could* do that.

I wonder if they could smooth the terrain by using tessellation. Could save some CPU load and instead load the GPU which is essentially idling right now. (of course DX11 operating system / hardware is required)