Global Scenery Buildings

Zitat von Jet-Pack (IPACS)

Please keep in mind that the MSFS has access to Bing images and has a team of 200 people and even more people in external companies who can just program AI tools to match each roof color of the image to their database or even use 3D photogrammetry. They also have the market share to strike good deals when making a contract.

Asking us to do the same that they did is a bit much... We're fast developers but not 10x faster than they are.

But we've heard your wish of making the roof top colors more region specific. That could certainly be added over time.

If I could add a few things, I'd say that beyond having scientific roofs for every country in the world (which is a lot of work). For me, the idea would be to make sure that the roofs aren't all flat, whitish-gray, I think adding relief to the roofs and alternating between 2-3 different roof colors will make them stand out a little better. You can see this when you fly over some big cities (eg Paris, Barcelona....) where, apart from the "handmade" buildings, everything looks flat and dull, and the embankments stand out better because they're colorful.

If I had to tease you, I would like to see Prague in the Czech Republic modeled in a simulator one day. It is a beautiful city and unfortunately not a single monument has been added there.

Anyway I love your job and this sim

Zitat von Jet-Pack (IPACS)

Please keep in mind that the MSFS has access to Bing images and has a team of 200 people and even more people in external companies who can just program AI tools to match each roof color of the image to their database or even use 3D photogrammetry. They also have the market share to strike good deals when making a contract.

Asking us to do the same that they did is a bit much... We're fast developers but not 10x faster than they are.

But we've heard your wish of making the roof top colors more region specific. That could certainly be added over time.

Instead of having each building matches with the real world, which requires too much data and work. How about start with having region-specific building styles? I suppose that’s something doable?

Zitat von W.B.

Instead of having each building matches with the real world, which requires too much data and work. How about start with having region-specific building styles? I suppose that’s something doable?

Personally, more than realistic buildings — although that would be great — I would prefer better weather, improved cloud graphics, and lighting (the atmosphere). But I understand it's easy to write and hard to do

Zitat von PilotHaus

Personally, more than realistic buildings — although that would be great — I would prefer better weather, improved cloud graphics, and lighting (the atmosphere). But I understand it's easy to write and hard to do

Sorry I can’t agree with your words that ‘It’s easy to write and hard to do’. We all play our role in this world and do our own hard part. But here as a customer we are perfectly entitled to make some ‘easy’ requests. Moreover, most ‘requests’ here are technically only suggestions, not actual requests.

Zitat von W.B.

Sorry I can’t agree with your words that ‘It’s easy to write and hard to do’. We all play our role in this world and do our own hard part. But here as a customer we are perfectly entitled to make some ‘easy’ requests. Moreover, most ‘requests’ here are technically only suggestions, not actual requests.

The problem is there are hundreds of these “easy requests” each month here. Someone wants roofs, someone wants better clouds, different winglets, new planes, better trees, atc, simbrief connection, and so on and so on. I agree with what you say though: these are just suggestions. What would be very useful here is a sort of request/development list. Where people can make a suggestions, vote for them and thus helping ipacs decide what to pursue. But in all honesty; they are a small team with a relatively small user base (and therefore income) compared to the big sims.

I want to see cows in the pasture, IPACS please please please 🙏😂😭🤣

Yes, but, be careful, cows are a different colour in Scotland than in France, for example...

Zitat von Djaco

Yes, but, be careful, cows are a different colour in Scotland than in France, for example...

It's a German simulator, so there are only German cows. In Scotland, there's only Nessi, and in France, there are only frogs. 🤣🖖

Zitat von Jet-Pack (IPACS)

Please keep in mind that the MSFS has access to Bing images and has a team of 200 people and even more people in external companies who can just program AI tools to match each roof color of the image to their database or even use 3D photogrammetry. They also have the market share to strike good deals when making a contract.

Asking us to do the same that they did is a bit much... We're fast developers but not 10x faster than they are.

But we've heard your wish of making the roof top colors more region specific. That could certainly be added over time.

Honestly, I don’t give a crap because I’ve been waiting for a version with actual buildings for a while now, so I’m happy about that and I would NEVER ask you guys to do THAT much, as those people I feel like are just greedy in a way. Thank you so much for the 3D buildings btw. They are an AWESOME addition to the game.

Zitat von DickundDoof

It's a German simulator, so there are only German cows.

So a geopolitical problem. Out of 11 million German cows, how many Fleckvieh?

Mhm, does Jan want the cow flatbreads on his home base?

I prefer to not have the real time weather, volumetric clouds, and other things that would consume resources, and keep the wonderful performance and fluidity of the sim, which makes it so special and different from other sims. Anyways, cows are nice

I agree with you on this subject, but a weather forecast where you can manually select sunshine, rain or snow, like on FSX or MSFS would not be refused.

Zitat von ApfelFlieger

Mhm, does Jan want the cow flatbreads on his home base?

Thanks for these famous flatbreads