Simviation Forum - First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Reply #15 - Dec 26^th, 2010 at 5:57pm

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One thing FSX can never be...... a native DX10 program.
One of the things Flight wiil be able to achive (with full DX10) will be much more realistic lighting effects, both artificial and in nature.

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Reply #16 - Dec 26^th, 2010 at 7:42pm

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Strawberry Yogurt wrote on Dec 26^th, 2010 at 4:23pm:

Daube wrote on Dec 26^th, 2010 at 10:45am:

[quote author=Airliner123 link=1293131396/2#2 date=1293151446]Well guys, I think we're actually getting a decent sim this time. Signifigant water improvments are evident... Wink

Really ? Where ? Huh

Umm... In the water! Grin

The water is dimmed and looks much more like real life, like in Brandon's shot for FSX the water looks like it has blue lightbulbs below the surface. On MF, the water also appears to have some transparency to it, so we 'might' be able to go underwater. ? Cool

Some people don't want to have any hope. Grin

The water looks way better. I don't know that we could go underwater, but those reefs are pretty interesting. Probably just part of the water texture though.

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Reply #17 - Dec 26^th, 2010 at 10:05pm

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Strawberry Yogurt wrote on Dec 26^th, 2010 at 4:23pm:

Umm... In the water! Grin

The water is dimmed and looks much more like real life, like in Brandon's shot for FSX the water looks like it has blue lightbulbs below the surface. On MF, the water also appears to have some transparency to it, so we 'might' be able to go underwater. ? Cool

This is just "water landclass", water textures below the "wave" texture, just like what REX brings to its customers.
For the waves, you can get the same results by using the various files on FSWC website Wink

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Reply #18 - Dec 26^th, 2010 at 11:24pm

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What location are the pictures of? It looks like Hawaii?

For the most part it looks like FSX but with hugely updated mesh, textures, landclass, with some nice soft-shadows. I just hope they add core improvements to it to increase the efficiency and add actual features.

(Also it looks like the rumors of MS Flight being dumbed down and all were completely incorrect, and Bill was right Cheesy

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Reply #19 - Dec 26^th, 2010 at 11:30pm

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What location are the pictures of? It looks like Hawaii?

For the most part it looks like FSX but with hugely updated mesh, textures, landclass, with some nice soft-shadows. I just hope they add core improvements to it to increase the efficiency.

(Also it looks like the rumors of MS Flight being dumbed down and all were completely incorrect, and Bill was right Cheesy

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MS also said in the recent news update that Flight was not dumbed down, so that rumor is officially dead. (At least it should be)

The screenshots were taken at Hilo, Hawaii. Wink

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Reply #20 - Dec 27^th, 2010 at 10:58am

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It all looks very promising, but I still need to see some published system requirements before I'm on-board. I would have to build a new PC regardless, my old one won't run FSX decently but it does run FS9 with all sliders maxed.

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Reply #21 - Dec 27^th, 2010 at 4:09pm

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Let's alll be a bit realistice here.
We can't expect Flight to be a cutting edge FS with SOTA graphics and expect it to run with everything pretty much maxed out on a mediocre sys.

Considering that Flight is at least a year away, it gives one plenty of time to save for a new sys, whatever that might be in a year's time.

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Reply #22 - Dec 27^th, 2010 at 7:02pm

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

AKA Wings of Prey (on PC)

I was just flying WOP right now, and yes it really seems to resemble that! trees are more three-dimensional too, and man does it run like a freight train on my old dual core! i can only "prey" (couldnt resist) that FLIGHT runs so well!

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Reply #23 - Dec 28^th, 2010 at 12:50pm

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While add-ons may allow FSX to look nearly as good as MS Flight. I much prefer having those graphics stock as add-ons typically jeopardize stability.

I just hope MS Flight is better optimized than FSX and actually uses my GPU!

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Reply #24 - Dec 29^th, 2010 at 9:11pm

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Ermmm... I didn't notice if anyone else had commented on this but, it's not the Stearman in these screens... it's our old lovely yet terribly underappreciated Maule M-7 260c... i know they're probably working with FSX bits and pieces, but is this a sign we may get some port-over compatibility? Will most of the native FSX catalog slide into FLIGHT? Anyone else thinking of this? If true, would be great for the years worth of effort put into some very fine aircraft made... MS and user-crafted.

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Reply #25 - Dec 29^th, 2010 at 10:00pm

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I know these are early screenshots and all, but I'd definitely love to see more realistic sky and cloud textures.

The ocean textures look good, but I think they could be better.

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Reply #26 - Dec 30^th, 2010 at 12:24am

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Spindrift wrote on Dec 29^th, 2010 at 9:11pm:

Ermmm... I didn't notice if anyone else had commented on this but, it's not the Stearman in these screens... it's our old lovely yet terribly underappreciated Maule M-7 260c... i know they're probably working with FSX bits and pieces, but is this a sign we may get some port-over compatibility? Will most of the native FSX catalog slide into FLIGHT? Anyone else thinking of this? If true, would be great for the years worth of effort put into some very fine aircraft made... MS and user-crafted.

Smiley

I think we will have compatibility with FSX add-ons, but nothing older. The Maule has probably already been converted over to a native Flight model, and for whatever reason, they decided to use it instead of the stearman in the shots. I don't think it is any sort of sign, though. They might just be showing that some of the default FSX aircraft will be included in Flight.

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Reply #27 - Dec 30^th, 2010 at 6:24pm

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Still great to see it though! Hope they bring over more favorites and improve them as well!

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Reply #28 - Dec 30^th, 2010 at 9:51pm

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Keep in mind that these shots are bait - embellished beyond default to attract potential buyers. Don't get me wrong, they certainly catch the eye but nothing you can't do with FSX. In one of the final shots there's a jumble of streams and tributaries, all looking like they were lit with neon - imagine what ORBX could do with something like that.

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Reply #29 - Dec 31^st, 2010 at 3:38am

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I'm actually quite impressed with these screenshots, and hope MS Flight delivers that much. Like many, I also hope that this will not be as crippling as FSX was on system requirements, though I do see a lot of PC games these days delivering handsome graphics with minimal cost to hardware. In this, I hope that MS Flight will be far better optimized.

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