6:22 There are like 10 free updates in the marketplace where you can download 3d data for cities, like London in this case. The whole city of London gets replaced with photogrammetry and carefully handcrafted landmarks in one of those updates.
Yea, he's missing the world updates. London and Cologne are very well detailed in those. Microsoft should really push at least the photogrametry to the base game because probably a lot of people are missing out on those.
From what he showed it looked like the game when it first launched. We've had several world updates since then that dramatically improve the visual quality and are basically a must.
one of my favourite bits of scenery was in my city of Melbourne Australia, at the release of the game, one random house in the northern suburbs had a typo in the coding and instead of being single story it was something like 200 stories so there was just this random spire which was dubbed The Melbourne Spire. our state premier at the time (Daniel Andrews) was infamous and in the news a lot because of our strict covid lockdowns at the time, but people started calling it "Daniel Andrews Lair" or "Dictator Dan's Penthouse" which was a funny bit of local banter i thought
There is an issue with the video, a ton of cities, like Cologne, do have photogrammetry, but you have to download the free world updates from the store. Even some small cities like Pamplona in Spain have this feature. Otherwise great vid ;)
@@NicOz42 Turns out that Xplane 12's flight model is not as good as MSFS, there are a bunch of youtube videos comparing them and xplane no longer has the edge on the actual flight model anymore. 🙃
One of the world updates has 3d scanned Central London with accurate buildings, it looks pretty fantastic. You have to install them through a menu in-game that I can't remember how to find, a lot of major cities have got 3d scanning updates since release.
I'm curious if you downloaded the free world updates? Those usually add a lot more detail to cities, and they have indeed done a Britain one. Salisbury is all there!
I thought he was going to mention World Updates when he mentioned Italy but nope. I swear London in my game looked much better than this, but I cant blame Philip for that since the game is really weird and often doesn't work in ways you expect a modern game to work
well... you are missing out, if you had tried fs2020 with a virtual reality headset and a flight stick on a decent pc i can guarantee that you would no longer not care about flying! i am no flight junkie but i do have a thing for simulators... and fs2020 is special. my favorite way of introducing people to VR for the first time is with fs2020, i give them an easy plane to fly like the cessna, i start them off in the air in a place they know well, i set it to dusk or dawn, with heavy rain and scattered fog, preferably near the coast as the low sun reflecting of the water makes for some breathtaking views if you dont get lost in the fog... then their challenge is to stay alive and find the local airport to land. judging by the amount of wows, oh my gods and the occasional very intense grunting sounds followed by a couple very loud OH SHITS and then can i try agains... people are into it. i often find myself completely loosing track of place and time, once i was just gonna do a quick test of a new plane (the grumman goose), i ended up flying clear across Iceland and back enjoying the heck out of the views, along the way i did notice a smoky smell and actually heard a siren at one time... but didnt think much of it, i was busy. when i finally landed back in Reykjavik and took my headset off there was flashing blue lights lighting up my entire apartment, i looked out the window and saw cop cars and firetrucks everywhere, and a 3 story warehouse building on fire with the roof caving in maybe 250-350 feet away, turns out i was in the closest apartment that had not been evacuated... fs2020 in VR is VERY immersive! 👀
@@Issoulachancla54 odyssey plus, rift s, reverb g2... there are better headsets but the g2 is probably the best for the price, the more resolution the more it takes to run it. if you are considering one do make sure its ipd range matches yours... (distanse between your eyes) or it can be a very uncomfortable experience.
@@ralphbooger4756 I'm still waiting for a flight simulator with a stunning graphics in VR and a very high frame rate. Moreover more realism in the communications and no inoperative button inside the cockpit. This 2020, I must admit, it's something new compared to the previous versions but still .....
As the current Mayor of Truro thank you for visiting Truro, I tried playing the flight Sim to have a look at Truro basically I crashed every time I try to leave Newquay. Now you've given me part of my life back to not bother for the next few years. Keep up the awesome videos.
It feel like you could talk about the very impressive and mind-blowing Space Engine after this! Once again I am entertained by your dive into world generation.
It'll be interesting to see what QOL updates they'll do with their anniversary update coming November, with it they play on adding helicopters. It makes me wonder if they have improved the scans and details of the world to match the closer viewing experience
@@rkan2 that is literally what flight simulator does. but it uses bing maps. which has allot less data then google earth. but it does have locations photographed by aircraft instead of satellite. so cities which have aircraft photography in bing maps, look the best in flight simulator. just fly over Seattle for a good example. i believe its currently the most detailed city in the Database.
I think you haven't downloaded all the free(!) world updates? Because a lot of the places you have shown, look amazing with them. They've done like 10 World updates, check em out!
as others have mentioned, you should do a small update video on this with the free world update dlcs installed (from the ingame store). theyve done them for several places including some in the uk and germany, so places like london and cologne should look at least somewhat better
Thank you for making this video, it really satisfied my curiosity. This IS the way I would have used MSF if I had bought it in 2020, because I've never been much into flying, but I always had an admiration for new technologies and a weird fascination with games set in real life places. Unfortunately, I still couldn't run it on my computer and check it out for myself, so I'm glad that we got a good old kliksphilip video talking about everything that really had me on the hook about this game.
Waayyy, always hyped when Truro or anywhere in Cornwall is mentioned in a video. And you're 100% right that the only thing that matters is our cathedral. Great video, thanks for covering the only bits of MS Flight Simulator that we all actually care about.
It's evident you didn't update your MSFS because they fixed a huge chunk of the ground detail/building issues in world updates. Custom made 3D models of iconic landmarks, more up-to-date satellite imagery, and photogrammetry cities. Oh yeah, I'm also surprised you didn't know about the photogrammetry cities and called them "3D scans". Yes, that's what it is, but it's a massive sections of cities. Their updates are continuing and do them based off regions/countries.
I checked out my homestead once. While it couldn't have any idea what the buildings might look like, they were exactly the same shape and size, except vertically, so the barn was depicted as a ginormous apartment block. What was also fun was that every church was like a cathedral.
I'm a dev for flight sim. The tech put behind the product is quite insane but lots of little funny things exist. For example, if you actually dig deep, you'll find that trees are actually a sprite sheet of like 30 different angles, each tree only really has like 64x64 pixels per angle. We call them "imposters" since they only mimic what was once a 3D model, but now just replicates itself as instances 3D-looking trees on the cheap.
6:19 they did multiple world updates over the past 1 and a half years or so, and currently they're on the like 8-11th one. in London more of these buildings are here now and i think that whole area uses a 3d scan now with the taller buildings being models. but you have to download the update packs from the store, they are free but using them all obviously makes the game size larger. so i think thats why they gave peopel the option to not download them. they're separated by general countries in the world. Tokyo looks crazy (i have now leanred that one of the top few comments already said this more condensed oops)
4:52 This certainly is a very daunting task. A large group of people right now are currently working on building the entirety of the world within minecraft, all to scale. It probably won't be done for years, but maybe that will be the next flight simulator.
"For years" is definitely an understatement. I don't think the map will ever be truly "done". I'd be surprised if they built all the major cities of every country in less than a decade, but to build the entire Earth with the level of detail they've achieved so far would literally take centuries.
@@Dan0RG it will be worth the wait, no matter how long it might be. Probably one of the only forms of the actual full detailed earth all together virtually
the reason for the lack of real building is because it was based on Bing Maps (yknow microsoft) and not Google Maps (which has more detailed 3d scan). But there is a mod where you can use Google maps and the difference in quality is STUNNING
I'm 3rd party developer for Flight Sim - and I got a trick for you. If you go into options/developers and activate developer mode, there is a different camera system ("developer camera") that works with mouse clicking and mouse wheel - much better for this kind of "flights" than moving around with the keyboard
I love this game, stunning graphics, even the base game is so jam packed. I’ve recently been playing it on my iPhone (and posted a few videos) and it performs beautifully even on a small device. Amazing that you can play such a complex and graphically beautiful game on your phone and on the go. Keep up the good work
Tbh I don't think it is that amazing at the end. All this data was available and doable 10 yeara ago - someone just had to put the monry and work in to it. Don't get me wrong - I'm grateful they did. However all that previous sims were really missing was trees and houses added on top of their 2D satellite imagery , perhaps with a bit of blending. Photorealistic addons for whole countries were already a thing 15 years back too - though mostly manual work.
@@mhs7424 Meh, not really... The licensing maybe, but Google Earth did it like 15 years ago basically. Tileproxy did it also 15 years ago for Fllight Simulator X.
I was literally looking for a video like this for forever haha. I’m a concept artist who uses Google Earth to find reference and this honestly blows it out of the water for what I do
You know what i used to do. When i was trying and learning IFR and the how to engage the whole autopilot. I did longer flights and then i realised that they do take very long and it's kind of boring with the autopilot on, so there i was stuck in the cockpit with my VR gogglles. So at some point i was using the camera drone and because the 'camera drone' is attached to the airplane, its like flying (like superman style flying), i could go higher/lower/forward/back, but you would be moving with the plane. So in the end i'm just flying through the clouds and watching the landscape pass by. Hearing the wind, instead of the airplane, it's magical. The first time i went like this through a cloud, i actually opened my mouth, wanting to breath the cloud.. lol.. Vr is just awesome.. ;) Anyway, beats sitting in the cockpit looking at clouds.. 😅😅
To be honest this video does quite the contrary. Mfs has some qualities. But for exploring in 3d a city. You litterally just get a better experience opening google earth.
@@orchidahussuhadihcro9862 if you ignore how much better he says Flight Sim is than google earth, maybe. If you don't read the comments about there being update packs to the game that include a 3D scanned London and other cities, then maayyyybe. But considering all that, MS Flight Sim looks sick. Also I am vaguely interested in the flying too, so that's even more appeal.
@@Ocarina654 The world updates actually killed my interest. I live in France, and after the french world update, the landmarks were still messy all over the place. Even Paris is failed, and let's not even talk about its suburbs. What looks great in real life, doesn't look anything good in this flight sim. So the contemplation aspect is not very interesting. About the flying, it gets boring pretty fast. It lacks any kind of "fun" stuff to do. It lacks some basic "game" aspects. Even DCS is immensely more engaging and fun as a flight sim.
@@Ocarina654 Still sometimes I've found marvelous skylines and good mountain ranges to explore. If you want to try, i recommend you do without paying full price for it. The whole earth rendered in 3d is a bit gimmicky. It doesn't contribute a lot in the pleasure you'll take from it in the end.
I use Flight Simulator to fly aircraft. If I want to tour the world at street level, I use Google/ Apple maps and street view. Aircraft do not fly at street level. The world is designed to be viewed from an aircraft. It’s not a rail or vehicle simulator. It’s still early days yet for the sim. Try looking at earlier versions to see how much things have advanced. Lots of buildings on my version featured. You must be running the original game before world updates.
You should have mentioned that slew, and Showcase Mode (Drone) can be keybound to your flight yoke. This makes them extremely easy to use. The sim accepts multiple definitions for the same key. And it figures out what mode you are in all by itself. This even works on the axis controls like the yoke itself. Some TH-camrs show their bindings for this and how to do it. I have it this way and it works.
Hey man I found my house in New Orleans while playing flight simulator.. they even used current google maps so my truck was out front lol.. I crash landed my plane next to my truck.. brought my neighbor over to smoke and watch me play it.. that day they used current google maps and saw game version of him outside his house washing cars.. his reaction was priceless!!
There is an easier way to do the freecam things that doesn't involve AS many keyboard shortcuts, just move your mouse towards the top of the screen, in the menu that appears open the camera tab and from there you can change your drone speed etc with sliders if I remember that part correctly.
as an aspiring pilot with a pilot dad, playing this game (more specifically with a vr) is insane to me, it did a really good job at making the insides of the planes and landmarks. overall it feels very realistic, though if you aren't interested in aviation, i can understand why you would find it boring and too complex for a flying sim.
A lot of people are mentioning the marketplace free updates, but the title says "Base Game" specifically, so I think it makes sense to not have those updates included in the video
20 seconds in and i am reminded you are my people! I love the tech behind the game but damn just give me superman powers or an iron man suit and let me zoom around fluidly and at ludicrous speed
I think I can offer a reason why churches and other notable buildings aren't replicated in the game, as I've worked on games with similar landmarks. In a word: Licensing Various notable buildings have image rights that need to be licensed out from the building owners. If you play a game like GRID Legends for example you'll see in the credits that London Eye, Eiffel Tower etc. are called out as partners. Given that Microsoft is trying to replicate the entire world here those costs would be enormous, so I bet what happened is that they picked the landmarks "everyone knows about" (like the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge etc.) and secured the rights to just those. This may also be why World Updates came post-launch as agreements to recreate certain buildings/cities may have taken long enough to be pushed to post-launch.
I honestly think this tech could be used to create a driving simulator for the whole world. Not in its current state, but as you're moving so much slower and viewing a much smaller area, they could use AI to to a best guess on roads, parks, buildings, trees (3d), street signs, people and simulate traffic for the area you're in. They could also generate road signs based on geographic data, though I imagine this would be a pitfall on it's own. Sure, it wouldn't be a 1-1 match, but they could get pretty close! The main issue I see with doing this is bug testing would be a nightmare (which I imagine they had with MSFS in the first place). Imagine having to drive around as many locations as possible in the world for graphical artefacts. I would love for this to be true, but who knows... maybe in 5 years.
sure the details of housing arnt always perfect, but they are pretty damn good. my house has a house about 1/3 as big next to it, and my others neighbours is about 30% bigger than ours. this is actually shown really well, with one neighbour having the smaller house and the other the bigger, and in more or less the right spot. the neighbour along from them is a farm, and one of thier barns is a flat block in the game, but still its incredible that it roughly gets the size and location of the houses pretty darn near perfect. just the actual house and its design is obviously different.
I play A LOT of google earth VR, sadly it was abandoned by Google... I kinda wish another studio tried to create something like that. I always wondered if Flight Simulator could fill that gap, but it seems that it would have to improve quite a lot for something so niche, then again I spend more time in the Street View
You can insert coordinates in the search box. So you can find a location of google maps, copy the coordinates, and then input them in MSFS and it will place you at exactly that location. Oh, and there is a mod that will replace all satellite images from Bing with Google Maps. Some places in the world look better, some worse. All the buildings will stay the same though
The flying is the best part though. There are career mods like NeoFly that allows you to fly jobs and all, personally I love flying in the mountains of Papua having to land on suicidally short airstrips
I've been a nerdy flight sim enthusiast for close to 30 years and love highly complex procedures and general "flight stuff" but simply flying around the world with the drone cam is absolutely one of my favourite things to do! :D Especially with the amazing weather and lighting effects at sunset etc!!!! The simple things in life... edit: I would HIGHLY recommend using an xbox controller for the drone cam... additionally, many of the problems highlighted are fixed/getting fixed. Depending on the location and availability of photogrammetry data or third party/modding content. :) I know it states "base game" but everything that Microsoft updates for free surely is part of the base game?
Nice seeing a non flight enthusiast view for msfs. Btw, they dont use google earth data, but bing maps. There is a mod to change it tho. Also, as people pointed out, theres downloads to increase cities details.
haha, not so much because of the hand crafted aspects for Australia my house is there with my car on the lawn and house mates van on the street, it is truly jaw dropping
Very interesting - thanks for this. The lack of churches is interesting, I'm not religious but I agree with you with respect to how churches characterise a town or city. Plus the weird roads and bridges was strange, Some difference from flight sim 2001 which I had.
Philip.. there is nothing more realistic than you and me together forever.
That's a bit... odd
@@synkree which is exactly why itll stay the top comment
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@@DaryonGaming 27 likes surely this is botted
6:22 There are like 10 free updates in the marketplace where you can download 3d data for cities, like London in this case. The whole city of London gets replaced with photogrammetry and carefully handcrafted landmarks in one of those updates.
Hope he makes a followup showcasing those too
Yea, he's missing the world updates. London and Cologne are very well detailed in those.
Microsoft should really push at least the photogrametry to the base game because probably a lot of people are missing out on those.
i assume the title did not include basegame when you made this comment then?
From what he showed it looked like the game when it first launched. We've had several world updates since then that dramatically improve the visual quality and are basically a must.
Seeing as how the title says base game im guessing a non based game video is on its way
one of my favourite bits of scenery was in my city of Melbourne Australia, at the release of the game, one random house in the northern suburbs had a typo in the coding and instead of being single story it was something like 200 stories so there was just this random spire which was dubbed The Melbourne Spire. our state premier at the time (Daniel Andrews) was infamous and in the news a lot because of our strict covid lockdowns at the time, but people started calling it "Daniel Andrews Lair" or "Dictator Dan's Penthouse" which was a funny bit of local banter i thought
Lmao. I never heard that one. Dan Andrews copped it during Covid. Deservedly so.
tried landing a cesna on top of it
Dictator Dan's Penthouse 🤣🤣🤣
Getting called a dictator for trying to protect people? Wow💀💀💀
@@aturchomicz821 Some things are more important than safety
That shot of the camera going down to the river, then suddenly there's a tree there and the music syncs up to that... that was really cool.
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There is an issue with the video, a ton of cities, like Cologne, do have photogrammetry, but you have to download the free world updates from the store.
Even some small cities like Pamplona in Spain have this feature.
Otherwise great vid ;)
Cologne
Would love to see another video of this with photogrammetry on
“How realistic is the base game”.
I think the video detailed exactly what the title said it would- the base game
@@AirSpanii He changed the title after people pointed this out
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making entire world in flight simulator had to require enormous effort from developers. They really did amazing job.
so much so, that some guy mad a mod to use google maps data, and it improved it
I wish the same effort could go to make a decent flight model that comes close to X- Plane
@@NonsensicalSpudz taking a existing game and modding it is not even close to making a entire game
@@NicOz42 Turns out that Xplane 12's flight model is not as good as MSFS, there are a bunch of youtube videos comparing them and xplane no longer has the edge on the actual flight model anymore. 🙃
@@jamesd6952 not true. Just do aerobatics in both sims and you'll see a clear winner. Even spins are bad in MSFS.
One of the world updates has 3d scanned Central London with accurate buildings, it looks pretty fantastic. You have to install them through a menu in-game that I can't remember how to find, a lot of major cities have got 3d scanning updates since release.
I'm curious if you downloaded the free world updates? Those usually add a lot more detail to cities, and they have indeed done a Britain one. Salisbury is all there!
seven thousand terabytes
I thought he was going to mention World Updates when he mentioned Italy but nope. I swear London in my game looked much better than this, but I cant blame Philip for that since the game is really weird and often doesn't work in ways you expect a modern game to work
@@jordontp you don't have 7 petabyte storage at home? What a shame /s
@@essigautomat /engineer gaming
@@duskobjelajac5122 until a few weeks ago I thought World updates were automatically installed, because of the name "world update", yaknow.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is so cool. I don't care about flying a plane but
simulating the whole world like this is just super dope
thats the point. its just eye candy
well... you are missing out, if you had tried fs2020 with a virtual reality headset and a flight stick on a decent pc i can guarantee that you would no longer not care about flying!
i am no flight junkie but i do have a thing for simulators... and fs2020 is special.
my favorite way of introducing people to VR for the first time is with fs2020, i give them an easy plane to fly like the cessna, i start them off in the air in a place they know well, i set it to dusk or dawn, with heavy rain and scattered fog, preferably near the coast as the low sun reflecting of the water makes for some breathtaking views if you dont get lost in the fog... then their challenge is to stay alive and find the local airport to land.
judging by the amount of wows, oh my gods and the occasional very intense grunting sounds followed by a couple very loud OH SHITS and then can i try agains... people are into it.
i often find myself completely loosing track of place and time, once i was just gonna do a quick test of a new plane (the grumman goose), i ended up flying clear across Iceland and back enjoying the heck out of the views, along the way i did notice a smoky smell and actually heard a siren at one time... but didnt think much of it, i was busy.
when i finally landed back in Reykjavik and took my headset off there was flashing blue lights lighting up my entire apartment, i looked out the window and saw cop cars and firetrucks everywhere, and a 3 story warehouse building on fire with the roof caving in maybe 250-350 feet away, turns out i was in the closest apartment that had not been evacuated... fs2020 in VR is VERY immersive! 👀
@@ralphbooger4756 wow seems cool, what vr headset do you use ?
@@Issoulachancla54
odyssey plus, rift s, reverb g2...
there are better headsets but the g2 is probably the best for the price, the more resolution the more it takes to run it.
if you are considering one do make sure its ipd range matches yours... (distanse between your eyes) or it can be a very uncomfortable experience.
@@ralphbooger4756 I'm still waiting for a flight simulator with a stunning graphics in VR and a very high frame rate. Moreover more realism in the communications and no inoperative button inside the cockpit. This 2020, I must admit, it's something new compared to the previous versions but still .....
As the current Mayor of Truro thank you for visiting Truro, I tried playing the flight Sim to have a look at Truro basically I crashed every time I try to leave Newquay. Now you've given me part of my life back to not bother for the next few years. Keep up the awesome videos.
@@2kliksphilip Indeed love that.
It feel like you could talk about the very impressive and mind-blowing Space Engine after this! Once again I am entertained by your dive into world generation.
It'll be interesting to see what QOL updates they'll do with their anniversary update coming November, with it they play on adding helicopters. It makes me wonder if they have improved the scans and details of the world to match the closer viewing experience
No, it won't change much. For that you'd need something like what Google demonstrated - making 3D cities from street view imagery.
@@rkan2 that is literally what flight simulator does.
but it uses bing maps. which has allot less data then google earth. but it does have locations photographed by aircraft instead of satellite.
so cities which have aircraft photography in bing maps, look the best in flight simulator. just fly over Seattle for a good example. i believe its currently the most detailed city in the Database.
he hasn't installed any of the world updates lol most of the stuff in this video is years out of date.
@@LodewijkVrije I know - I was part of Alpha since January 2020 :P
Buys FLIGHT simulator - is mad that he has to fly planes
5:34 "Valve pls fix"
I think you haven't downloaded all the free(!) world updates? Because a lot of the places you have shown, look amazing with them. They've done like 10 World updates, check em out!
as others have mentioned, you should do a small update video on this with the free world update dlcs installed (from the ingame store). theyve done them for several places including some in the uk and germany, so places like london and cologne should look at least somewhat better
I love how the Flat Earth conspiracy theory went all the way back around to people being able to joke about it without people thinking you're serious.
What do you mean all the way back "around"? The conspiracy is flat
@@PlanetAlexanderProjects lmao
You could say it went full circle
It really is flat though
@@peergynt9852 please say sike
8:08 - Puts it at a random location, I then realise he placed it pretty much directly over my house lmao
get doxxed
@@Lallint lol
i was shouting “PREACH BROTHER” when you were talking about the cpu. “main thread” got me rocking in the corner.
Thank you for making this video, it really satisfied my curiosity. This IS the way I would have used MSF if I had bought it in 2020, because I've never been much into flying, but I always had an admiration for new technologies and a weird fascination with games set in real life places. Unfortunately, I still couldn't run it on my computer and check it out for myself, so I'm glad that we got a good old kliksphilip video talking about everything that really had me on the hook about this game.
Waayyy, always hyped when Truro or anywhere in Cornwall is mentioned in a video. And you're 100% right that the only thing that matters is our cathedral.
Great video, thanks for covering the only bits of MS Flight Simulator that we all actually care about.
Hello sandwich
You know what - I'm not unconvinced that those floating houses might be my own, or my neighbours
@@CentaurionArcher corn wall Cornish language
I'm super happy you did this vid because I was legit wondering the same thing looking at its steam page
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That's my favourite scene from The Italian Job
I really liked the delivery of the line at 3:04. you can hear your smile.
It's evident you didn't update your MSFS because they fixed a huge chunk of the ground detail/building issues in world updates. Custom made 3D models of iconic landmarks, more up-to-date satellite imagery, and photogrammetry cities.
Oh yeah, I'm also surprised you didn't know about the photogrammetry cities and called them "3D scans". Yes, that's what it is, but it's a massive sections of cities.
Their updates are continuing and do them based off regions/countries.
And dont forget the Free DLCs that are quite hefty but brings even more places into a good perspective.
The name of the technique used for the trees is "Imposters" (and that isnt an among us joke, they are just called that)
I checked out my homestead once. While it couldn't have any idea what the buildings might look like, they were exactly the same shape and size, except vertically, so the barn was depicted as a ginormous apartment block. What was also fun was that every church was like a cathedral.
I'm a dev for flight sim. The tech put behind the product is quite insane but lots of little funny things exist. For example, if you actually dig deep, you'll find that trees are actually a sprite sheet of like 30 different angles, each tree only really has like 64x64 pixels per angle. We call them "imposters" since they only mimic what was once a 3D model, but now just replicates itself as instances 3D-looking trees on the cheap.
The "sprite trees" are known as "imposters" in 3d modeling and game dev
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The song that starts at 05:00 is very reminiscent of the main theme of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Made me feel bubbly inside :)
wow, i like those sprite trees actually,
its like doom but 32 sides, looks really cool
like a new mix of 2d and 3d
that opening is full of suspense though lol, you keep flying left and more left.
Finding you 8 years ago was the best thing to come out of my CSGO addiction
The most unbelievable part about this is that you actually visited Truro. I spent years of my life in that cathedral, haha
I enjoy the fact that kliks commentary style is bone-dry, makes the jokes hit harder because you can't see them coming
6:19 they did multiple world updates over the past 1 and a half years or so, and currently they're on the like 8-11th one. in London more of these buildings are here now and i think that whole area uses a 3d scan now with the taller buildings being models. but you have to download the update packs from the store, they are free but using them all obviously makes the game size larger. so i think thats why they gave peopel the option to not download them. they're separated by general countries in the world. Tokyo looks crazy (i have now leanred that one of the top few comments already said this more condensed oops)
4:52 This certainly is a very daunting task. A large group of people right now are currently working on building the entirety of the world within minecraft, all to scale. It probably won't be done for years, but maybe that will be the next flight simulator.
"For years" is definitely an understatement. I don't think the map will ever be truly "done". I'd be surprised if they built all the major cities of every country in less than a decade, but to build the entire Earth with the level of detail they've achieved so far would literally take centuries.
@@Dan0RG it will be worth the wait, no matter how long it might be. Probably one of the only forms of the actual full detailed earth all together virtually
There are a lot of (free) mods that fix most of the missing buildings, and adds trains :)
the reason for the lack of real building is because it was based on Bing Maps (yknow microsoft) and not Google Maps (which has more detailed 3d scan). But there is a mod where you can use Google maps and the difference in quality is STUNNING
I'm 3rd party developer for Flight Sim - and I got a trick for you. If you go into options/developers and activate developer mode, there is a different camera system ("developer camera") that works with mouse clicking and mouse wheel - much better for this kind of "flights" than moving around with the keyboard
As soon as I heard you mention Salisbury cathedral I knew that joke was coming 😂
3:05 That caught me off guards I laughed way too hard😂
I found you back in the days because of you csgo video you are definitly one of my favorite youtube now !!
@@2kliksphilip not as much but I still love the game 😁 I watch your vid as soon as they are out tho 😂
I love this game, stunning graphics, even the base game is so jam packed. I’ve recently been playing it on my iPhone (and posted a few videos) and it performs beautifully even on a small device. Amazing that you can play such a complex and graphically beautiful game on your phone and on the go. Keep up the good work
What? How tf do you get it on ios?
@@pengor_ I've posted a video. It's on cloud gaming
I said this at the time of Flight Sim's launch and I'll say it again - This game is nothing short of an achievement software!
Tbh I don't think it is that amazing at the end. All this data was available and doable 10 yeara ago - someone just had to put the monry and work in to it. Don't get me wrong - I'm grateful they did. However all that previous sims were really missing was trees and houses added on top of their 2D satellite imagery , perhaps with a bit of blending. Photorealistic addons for whole countries were already a thing 15 years back too - though mostly manual work.
@@rkan2 Streaming ortho is a huge achievement in itsell
@@mhs7424 Meh, not really... The licensing maybe, but Google Earth did it like 15 years ago basically. Tileproxy did it also 15 years ago for Fllight Simulator X.
@@rkan2 it kills your pc and rye game will be terabytes
I was literally looking for a video like this for forever haha. I’m a concept artist who uses Google Earth to find reference and this honestly blows it out of the water for what I do
My God,i love this vid. Imagine just how much effort they put in creating this game map. Could hardly be any better than that.
Valve even needs to fix flight simulators issues. They never gets a break.
And what does Valve have to do with any of this?
You know what i used to do. When i was trying and learning IFR and the how to engage the whole autopilot. I did longer flights and then i realised that they do take very long and it's kind of boring with the autopilot on, so there i was stuck in the cockpit with my VR gogglles. So at some point i was using the camera drone and because the 'camera drone' is attached to the airplane, its like flying (like superman style flying), i could go higher/lower/forward/back, but you would be moving with the plane. So in the end i'm just flying through the clouds and watching the landscape pass by. Hearing the wind, instead of the airplane, it's magical. The first time i went like this through a cloud, i actually opened my mouth, wanting to breath the cloud.. lol.. Vr is just awesome.. ;) Anyway, beats sitting in the cockpit looking at clouds.. 😅😅
That block of flats over Plymouth Lido feels more like a prediction than a projection...
I love Phil randomly rants about something trivial
What I like about flight simulator is that it lets me LARP crashing a plane into my workplace
Was looking forward to a flight sim video from you
If you meant for this to be an advertisement for MS Flight Sim, then you succeeded. Holy gosh that looks so cool to fly around in.
To be honest this video does quite the contrary.
Mfs has some qualities. But for exploring in 3d a city. You litterally just get a better experience opening google earth.
@@orchidahussuhadihcro9862 if you ignore how much better he says Flight Sim is than google earth, maybe. If you don't read the comments about there being update packs to the game that include a 3D scanned London and other cities, then maayyyybe.
But considering all that, MS Flight Sim looks sick. Also I am vaguely interested in the flying too, so that's even more appeal.
@@Ocarina654 The world updates actually killed my interest.
I live in France, and after the french world update, the landmarks were still messy all over the place. Even Paris is failed, and let's not even talk about its suburbs.
What looks great in real life, doesn't look anything good in this flight sim. So the contemplation aspect is not very interesting.
About the flying, it gets boring pretty fast. It lacks any kind of "fun" stuff to do. It lacks some basic "game" aspects. Even DCS is immensely more engaging and fun as a flight sim.
@@orchidahussuhadihcro9862 hey, fair enough!
@@Ocarina654 Still sometimes I've found marvelous skylines and good mountain ranges to explore. If you want to try, i recommend you do without paying full price for it.
The whole earth rendered in 3d is a bit gimmicky. It doesn't contribute a lot in the pleasure you'll take from it in the end.
Lol, flight simulator thinks the earth is round! You never cease to crack me up at least once in a vid
Truth
The lack of religious buildings could be a security procedure so that people can't train to kamikaze them.
I use Flight Simulator to fly aircraft. If I want to tour the world at street level, I use Google/ Apple maps and street view. Aircraft do not fly at street level. The world is designed to be viewed from an aircraft. It’s not a rail or vehicle simulator. It’s still early days yet for the sim.
Try looking at earlier versions to see how much things have advanced.
Lots of buildings on my version featured. You must be running the original game before world updates.
5:56 - this is probably so people don't feel the urge to crash planes into them.
You should have mentioned that slew, and Showcase Mode (Drone) can be keybound to your flight yoke. This makes them extremely easy to use. The sim accepts multiple definitions for the same key. And it figures out what mode you are in all by itself. This even works on the axis controls like the yoke itself. Some TH-camrs show their bindings for this and how to do it. I have it this way and it works.
Haven’t heard anyone else mention Wells on youtube. Best city you’ve never been to 😍
Hey man I found my house in New Orleans while playing flight simulator.. they even used current google maps so my truck was out front lol.. I crash landed my plane next to my truck.. brought my neighbor over to smoke and watch me play it.. that day they used current google maps and saw game version of him outside his house washing cars.. his reaction was priceless!!
its pretty cool that bohemia interactive simulations has a procedurally generated 1:1 scale planet that pulls from real world data
There is an easier way to do the freecam things that doesn't involve AS many keyboard shortcuts, just move your mouse towards the top of the screen, in the menu that appears open the camera tab and from there you can change your drone speed etc with sliders if I remember that part correctly.
I think if the map can use in open world games it will be the biggest, long-term, and biggest size game ever, especially can be played online
I see this video just as I am about to install FS for the first time
What amazing timing my guy.
You should download the world updates they have. It adds so much more detail
"Flight sim thinks the world is round" you got me there 🤣
Until the America update, the Washington Monument was a giant rectangle in the sky.
love the video Philip this game always made me have questions, but I didn't wanna spend $60 to find out what u put in this video
I'll probably never play Flight Simulator, why did you make me watch this, Philip?
Wow! What an acomplishment this game is! Its crazy that this even runs on home computers!
I love that I could see my 5000 people small Czech town in a game.
I think this is all part of Microsoft's plan to make us forget about Microsoft Train Simulator, the best game ever developed.
as an aspiring pilot with a pilot dad, playing this game (more specifically with a vr) is insane to me, it did a really good job at making the insides of the planes and landmarks. overall it feels very realistic, though if you aren't interested in aviation, i can understand why you would find it boring and too complex for a flying sim.
A lot of people are mentioning the marketplace free updates, but the title says "Base Game" specifically, so I think it makes sense to not have those updates included in the video
20 seconds in and i am reminded you are my people! I love the tech behind the game but damn just give me superman powers or an iron man suit and let me zoom around fluidly and at ludicrous speed
my favorite time of video
an exploration of something unrelated to the original goal of something
It’s only as real as the friends you make along the way.
I think I can offer a reason why churches and other notable buildings aren't replicated in the game, as I've worked on games with similar landmarks.
In a word: Licensing
Various notable buildings have image rights that need to be licensed out from the building owners. If you play a game like GRID Legends for example you'll see in the credits that London Eye, Eiffel Tower etc. are called out as partners.
Given that Microsoft is trying to replicate the entire world here those costs would be enormous, so I bet what happened is that they picked the landmarks "everyone knows about" (like the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge etc.) and secured the rights to just those.
This may also be why World Updates came post-launch as agreements to recreate certain buildings/cities may have taken long enough to be pushed to post-launch.
“i’m a little sad to see that trains have been neglected though” we are of similar mind fellow train enjoyer
I honestly think this tech could be used to create a driving simulator for the whole world. Not in its current state, but as you're moving so much slower and viewing a much smaller area, they could use AI to to a best guess on roads, parks, buildings, trees (3d), street signs, people and simulate traffic for the area you're in. They could also generate road signs based on geographic data, though I imagine this would be a pitfall on it's own. Sure, it wouldn't be a 1-1 match, but they could get pretty close! The main issue I see with doing this is bug testing would be a nightmare (which I imagine they had with MSFS in the first place). Imagine having to drive around as many locations as possible in the world for graphical artefacts. I would love for this to be true, but who knows... maybe in 5 years.
Man I was really hoping for a "Have fun!" in the end :D
sure the details of housing arnt always perfect, but they are pretty damn good. my house has a house about 1/3 as big next to it, and my others neighbours is about 30% bigger than ours. this is actually shown really well, with one neighbour having the smaller house and the other the bigger, and in more or less the right spot. the neighbour along from them is a farm, and one of thier barns is a flat block in the game, but still its incredible that it roughly gets the size and location of the houses pretty darn near perfect. just the actual house and its design is obviously different.
It's so funny to start watching this video and seeing him talk so much about Cologne
Looking at your world map, you seem to be missing a lot of POIs. Have you installed the World Updates? You'll probably get your churches.
Oooh! Kliksphillip covering my favorite sim!
Holding out hope that someday this will be available as Microsoft Earth, purely for exploration and aesthetics
This video made me consider getting Flight Simulator
The game you are looking for it called Outerra. It is basically the msf world but without flying and in way higher detail
I play A LOT of google earth VR, sadly it was abandoned by Google... I kinda wish another studio tried to create something like that.
I always wondered if Flight Simulator could fill that gap, but it seems that it would have to improve quite a lot for something so niche, then again I spend more time in the Street View
You can insert coordinates in the search box. So you can find a location of google maps, copy the coordinates, and then input them in MSFS and it will place you at exactly that location.
Oh, and there is a mod that will replace all satellite images from Bing with Google Maps. Some places in the world look better, some worse. All the buildings will stay the same though
The flying is the best part though. There are career mods like NeoFly that allows you to fly jobs and all, personally I love flying in the mountains of Papua having to land on suicidally short airstrips
I've been a nerdy flight sim enthusiast for close to 30 years and love highly complex procedures and general "flight stuff" but simply flying around the world with the drone cam is absolutely one of my favourite things to do! :D Especially with the amazing weather and lighting effects at sunset etc!!!!
The simple things in life...
edit: I would HIGHLY recommend using an xbox controller for the drone cam... additionally, many of the problems highlighted are fixed/getting fixed. Depending on the location and availability of photogrammetry data or third party/modding content. :)
I know it states "base game" but everything that Microsoft updates for free surely is part of the base game?
Exactly how I use flight sim though. It's worth downloading all the world updates, they add some really nice 3d scans of lots of cities.
0:45 it's not only from 2d map, whole word is scanned with drones and planes, lidar mapping
Nice seeing a non flight enthusiast view for msfs. Btw, they dont use google earth data, but bing maps. There is a mod to change it tho. Also, as people pointed out, theres downloads to increase cities details.
haha, not so much because of the hand crafted aspects for Australia my house is there with my car on the lawn and house mates van on the street, it is truly jaw dropping
Changing the title after people point out there are photogrammetry update? Welp, a maneuver as old as TH-cam itself.
Very interesting - thanks for this. The lack of churches is interesting, I'm not religious but I agree with you with respect to how churches characterise a town or city. Plus the weird roads and bridges was strange, Some difference from flight sim 2001 which I had.
Some French cathedrals are handmade by the devs in the game, like the black ones in Clermont Auvergne and it’s beautiful