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[Mohammad]

Love this!

Sky textures look less milky/hazy than FSX.

Ground textures also look better.

Frame rate looks smooth and hopefully as SwitchFX said it's coming from an affordable rig.

I can imagine lots of emphasis was put on performance but thankfully it didn't sacrifice on the visuals one bit from the looks of things.

[franthree]

SwitchFX, on Jun 22 2011, 02:56 AM, said:

You noticed they weren't smudged, too? This really seems too good to be true now. I expect Ashton Kutcher to pop up in the next webisode telling us we've been "punk'd".

Lets hope not! Imagine Posky-like Exterior textures and VC's in the Default "Flight" Jets!

[SwitchFX]

I'm glad you all have noticed good things. I was on OrbX's forums this morning and all there is there are complaints about how it's literally the same as FSX with a few new textures. I recall reading the same things several years about FSX by FS9 simmers.

[BrandonF]

SwitchFX, on Jun 23 2011, 01:45 AM, said:

I'm glad you all have noticed good things. I was on OrbX's forums this morning and all there is there are complaints about how it's literally the same as FSX with a few new textures. I recall reading the same things several years about FSX by FS9 simmers.

All of us are just that awesome for noticing the actual improvements besides a few textures.  

[Thunderhead66]

Looking great i honestly and truly believe this will be a great simulator i see massive improvements,
Way smoother then fsx just really all we can do now is sit and wait  

[Brandon-M]

I think it is high time for a demo! haha

[George1]

Cant wait for this, hope its not hyped up too much

[jetblast787]

looks good but I'm not too keen on trees moving unless they have virtually no  impact on frames, however low the impact may be because when your in the air your hardly going to notice the trees swaying anyway

Edited by iranair747, 25 June 2011 - 07:22 PM.

[SwitchFX]

iranair747, on Jun 25 2011, 05:22 PM, said:

looks good but I'm not too keen on trees moving unless they have virtually no  impact on frames, however low the impact may be because when your in the air your hardly going to notice the trees swaying anyway

Why would this matter at 800 AGL and more?

Edited by SwitchFX, 25 June 2011 - 08:11 PM.

[fsxnate]

Graphics are def all set, as the professor wrote waiting on the performance side

[Mohammad]

Brandon_, on Jun 23 2011, 11:41 PM, said:

I think it is high time for a demo! haha

I'm against this actually.

FSX was the only sim to have a demo, and look how things turned out.

I know it's irrelevant but I just want all memories of FSX away lol.

No demo!

[moey124]

does anybody have a idea when this sim will release?

[LA_PHX]

moey124, on Jul 11 2011, 07:49 PM, said:

does anybody have a idea when this sim will release?

I heard tomorrow.

[ChaoticBeauty]

One thing I hate about Flight is the water. It barely has any reflections, it looks unrealistic and low-res.

[Jonay]

Kaotika, on Jul 16 2011, 10:13 AM, said:

One thing I hate about Flight is the water. It barely has any reflections, it looks unrealistic and low-res.

Have you got a pre-release or something that you know that for sure?

[clum]

Kaotika, on Jul 16 2011, 10:13 AM, said:

One thing I hate about Flight is the water. It barely has any reflections, it looks unrealistic and low-res.

Go up in a real aircraft and look at the sea. There are barely any reflections unless it's an unusually calm and bright day. JUst because FSX has a cartoon glass sea, doesn't mean that's realistic.

[franz]

Aww...I'd L-O-V-E cloud shadows...   It was possible on older sims, like Falcon4 (remember anyone??) why cannot be done today, 10ish years later??? Still, amazing video...cant wait!!!  

Edited by franz, 16 July 2011 - 10:49 AM.

[divemaster08]

As long as my FSX aircraft and sceneries work in here, then were cookin.... with GAS!

[BrandonF]

franz, on Jul 16 2011, 08:49 AM, said:

Aww...I'd L-O-V-E cloud shadows...   It was possible on older sims, like Falcon4 (remember anyone??) why cannot be done today, 10ish years later???

I looked at some screenshots of Falcon 4, and my question is....did the cloud shape determine the shadow shape? Back then, it's likely that a dark are displayed on the ground for each cloud or something. If cloud shadows were implemented into a modern sim, the right thing to do would be to make them display as the same shape as the original cloud. Rendering the shape of a semitransparent object in the sky that blends from solid to nothing onto the ground as a shadow can't be an easy task. But maybe they'll work something out by release. We can only hope.

divemaster08, on Jul 25 2011, 11:55 AM, said:

As long as my FSX aircraft and sceneries work in here, then were cookin.... with GAS!

I hate to say it, but that's just asking for the team to hold it back and not make the big improvements that they are capable of. Backwards compatibility holds the sim back from progressing as much as it should.

Edited by BrandonF, 25 July 2011 - 04:00 PM.

[nickname]

SwitchFX, on Jun 23 2011, 03:45 AM, said:

I'm glad you all have noticed good things. I was on OrbX's forums this morning and all there is there are complaints about how it's literally the same as FSX with a few new textures. I recall reading the same things several years about FSX by FS9 simmers.

Well Flight does look like fsx with orbx...it is definately an improvement over default fsx in every way however.