October 24th 2019 - Development/Insider Update

[HighTowers 1,444]

When you learn from life experiences and taught that if its too good to be true.... it probably is.   I would say this is indeed the epitome of exceptions for that rule. 

Shadows shadows, cloud shadows casting on each other, reflecting the amount of light, dark clouds varying according to the layers.  The reflections on the water based on time of day is cool.  The whole weather experience is truly outstanding from the video.  Even seeing the satellite image in game interface.   Wild stuff. 

Only thing I didnt see was internal building lights, but the night lighting from the street lights does indeed look way better. 

[aleex 551]

Missing some thunderbolt/storm in the video. Did I miss someone?

 

The rest is fantastic, especially the clouds reflected by night lights. 

Edited October 24, 2019 by aleex

[jlund 383]

Just one word:     WOW.    (Okay, that was 4 words 🙂 )

[adino 263]

Fantastico amigos!

[KillerKlient 92]

Really nice work MS, love it.  They thought of doing things that I wouldn't even expect.

My only small bug bear is, this night photo:

The Sky Scrappers on the left appear to be suffering from a power cut? Should be lit up like christmas trees in reality! Hope this is just a pre-alpha thing.  See below for comparison sake.

 

[mjw25 42]

Excellent !!!  I am soo happy.....

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

Just now, KillerKlient said:

The Sky Scrappers on the left appear to be suffering from a power cut? Should be lit up like christmas trees in reality! Hope this is just a pre-alpha thing.  See below for comparison sake.

In fact none of the buildings are lit up, it's only street lights casting light on them in here. For generic buildings it shouldn't be too hard to update the textures, though for photogrammetry buildings this could be a challenge...

[nikita 241]

1 minute ago, KillerKlient said:

Really nice work MS, love it.  They thought of doing things that I wouldn't even expect.

My only small bug bear is, this night photo:

The Sky Scrappers on the left appear to be suffering from a power cut? Should be lit up like christmas trees in reality! Hope this is just a pre-alpha thing.  See below for comparison sake.

 

Those skyscrapers are lit up though, it's just not as bright as the IRL picture. The camera is also making them look much brighter than they are, the sim is closer to real life (though they could be brightened up a tad anyway)

[SamYeager 247]

The two videos so far have been marvellous! I fully expect the following two to be likewise. Question is; what's going to be the downside? As the saying goes "If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is". Obviously we already know that various things like ATC, helicopters and possibly VR & TrackIR may not be (fully) implemented at launch but what else may be missing?

[KillerKlient 92]

Just now, nikita said:

Those skyscrapers are lit up though, it's just not as bright as the IRL picture. The camera is also making them look much brighter than they are, the sim is closer to real life (though they could be brightened up a tad anyway)

Ye I know, but my point is not a single light on the sky scrapers is turned on.  In reality there would be a decent amount of them on in big cities (would expect half of them at least).  Doesn't matter how well it is shown, but they need to be on!

[irrics 1,524]

Can’t we just be positive for a bit?

Must we immediately devolve into “but what is the downside!?”

Edited October 24, 2019 by irrics

[DadJokeCinema 145]

It's really interesting in the Seattle time-lapse cloud-layer section of the video to see how well the engine does with the Museum of Pop Culture (probably a pre-fab model) but stumbles on the Pacific Science Center, which seems like photogammetry:

 

 

While I was posting this, there were like 10 new replies. Great to see people so excited.

[stripealipe 87]

And they changed their video format and now went with Youtube? Listening to our every whim it seems... props to the Devs!

[aleex 551]

5 minutes ago, KillerKlient said:

Really nice work MS, love it.  They thought of doing things that I wouldn't even expect.

My only small bug bear is, this night photo:

The Sky Scrappers on the left appear to be suffering from a power cut? Should be lit up like christmas trees in reality! Hope this is just a pre-alpha thing.  See below for comparison sake.

 

Yup. Some anti collision lights could be good also. Maybe in a late development stages. 

[KillerKlient 92]

1 minute ago, irrics said:

Can’t we just be positive for a single page?

We are, the whole point is to give feedback.  MS probably views threads like these and they like feedback.  If we all just sat here saying it's 100% amazing, then it's not going to help shape a better product.  If enough people agree on how certain aspects could be tweaked then I'm sure MS will focus on them.