Yeah the textures and foliage don't look good, and the landscapes are very basic. But it is rendering tons of data at once, and the lighting and clouds look insanely realistic, you're also not supposed to look too close in this type of game, so it doesn't matter too much. Maybe the next Flight Simulator MS releases will look almost exactly like real life. The next generation is gonna be crazy
@@MrZodiac011 i didnt say it was bad or matter, just explained. For example a game like gta or whatever, also with big map (but tiny in comparasion to msfs) have lots of detail and looks 100x better up close.
This kind of realism has actually been possible for the last 2-3 generations of computer hardware. However, almost every game dev studio prioritises other things and usually ignores the simulation aspect that can bring realism to a game world, so yeah its always nice when a studio prioritises the simulation as well.
2:33 I actually did this to show some friends how the moon looked in Jamaica while I was there. They didn't believe me that the crest of the moon makes a U shape rather than a C shape so I went back in time to 2013 to when I was there and sure enough it was exactly in the sky where I expected it to be and looked how I expected it to be. That was pretty cool to see first hand.
I did this with a solar eclipse that I missed in RL because it was on the other side of the world. It looked pretty good recreated in the sim as well, but not the same of course.
Meteorologist here. Well done talking about the different elements and effects of humidity and wind. Bonus for mentioning the crepuscular rays (rays of sunlight)! I would recommend looking up the actual weather from a local observation point and seeing if that helps your recreation. Look up historical records or METAR (all caps) archives. You would have to decode the METAR but there are sites for that. Also would like to see if you can make a rainbow with the sun at your back at less than 42 degree elevation (key) and rain in-front of you. Good luck and thanks for showing me the weather side of flight sim.
Don’t worry I share your obsession with virtual worlds, and just as you I appreciate the beauty of the real world more AND the art of capturing that beauty in virtual worlds
You should make a video discussing snow in gaming or AI image generation. I think that’d be really interesting for those obsessed with virtual worlds and how they try to capture the beauty of the real one.
This video made me realize again how much i love your range of interests and your devotion to them. The way you can get completely interested in small parts of games that many people play rather mindlessly is amazing. Talking about virtual clouds, and comparisons from the game to the real world. Talking about both current- old and future technology, both in Hardware and Software. You are the rare kind of person that i could see talking to for hours just listening, because you have a way of making the smallest and least-important seeming topics absolutely mesmerizing. Keep doing what you're doing Philip.
the fact that he puts clouds on par with real-time lighting and physics makes me think this will imminently become an obsession in his new games which are definitely coming out soon. Especially Destruction Darius 2.
Great video - I’ve been a huge fan of MSFS 2020 since September 2020 and I still marvel at the depth of its physical modeling, including clouds, humidity, wind, and more. As an optical engineer, I’m also impressed with how well lighting is simulated at all levels including atmospheric. It’s easy to make your own weather but even easier with utilities like Weather Preset Pro that adds dozens of amazing presets to the built in ones. The astronomy is accurate too. You can even see solar eclipses if you get the date, time, and position right.
I don't know if you've given VR a go in Flight Simulator yet, but boy does it make everything even better. Flying through cloud formations is just such a joy.
the other thing that people often overlook with photorealism is the "photo" part. simulate lights and fog and clouds all you want, but until you get the behavior of an actual camera down, it'll still have tells. depth of field, aperture, lens flare, stuff like that that im not smart enough to really describe properly.
8:15 To add onto that, category 5 hurricane Michael hit Panama City Beach, FL in 2018. It leveled huge portions of the city. I had to visit that city for work roughly a week after the hurricane and the city was full of tractors, construction equipment, road crews and power crews working around the clock and sleeping in their trucks. Most homes were destroyed, most businesses were destroyed. Locals had all moved away since they didn't have a place to sleep or a place to work. 4 years later that city is still being rebuilt.
I noticed in one of my many hundred+ hours of exploring RDR2, when it rains, the ground is insanely shiny when the sun hits it just right. Preposterous, I thought. Then, days later at the market I saw how wet the ground was, and in the evening as we left, how shiny the ground really could be when hit by sunlight, blinding even! Virtual worlds have made me focus hyper attentively at the world around me, and made me appreciate it's subtler beauties.
Same here! Especially after doing some 3D modeling and paying more attention to those details such as lighting and foliage in games I notice myself having a new appreciation for the beauty of what we try so hard to replicate.
Mr Philip, if you have a look through different FS2020 mods you'd come across one that replaces Bing-maps image data with Google-maps image data instead. This does provide higher resolution images and with much better contrast, however some models dont quite match up completely.
As a scientist, I feel like I can relate to the last parts of this video (and a lot of others if I'm being honest lol). I believe you don't need the confirmation that what you're doing is not against or somehow depreciating the natural beauty but ensuring that a much larger population could have access to it. Should you be enjoying all the beautiful things that you come across? sure. But who says that there's a particular way of enjoying things? Our life experiences play a very important role in how we appreciate things. I can't say that I'd enjoy a hiking trip the same way a geologist or a botanist would. I love watching 2kliks and kliks videos because it almost feels like sitting through a colloquium where you go over questions you asked, results you found etc. or some philosophical discussion and it helps me get a new perspective to look at things. Oops. Typed out a TH-cam comment like a personal message. It's too late now. gg.
A lot of airports will spit out the cloud heights in a coded format. It’s part of an hourly report called a METAR used for aviation-related weather decision making. They spit out a cloud condition report that’s stylized like this: FEW280 SCT150 BKN045 OVC006 FEW represents few clouds (1/8 to 2/8 sky coverage) SCT represents scattered (3/8 to 5/8 coverage) BKN represents a broken ceiling (6/8 to 7/8 coverage) OVC represents an overcast layer (8/8 coverage) If there’s no clouds, you may see CLR or SKC. The caveat is that some stations only report clouds below a certain height. The number after the layer type is how high the clouds are above ground level (AGL) in hundreds of feet. So, 280 is 28,000ft AGL, 150 is 15,000ft AGL, 045 is 4500ft AGL, and 006 is 600ft AGL.
Your point about the digital world giving you a greater appreciation for the real world is something I can connect with. Learning to map in source from your tutorials got me looking so much more closely at the world and the intricacies in how things look in nature.
I’m kinda disappointed by the snow in this game. It seems to start on roads walk ways first as the amount of snow goes up and that feels like the opposite of what should happen. It really shows in 6:18. But I also can’t claim to of been in the sky during winter so maybe this is more accurate than it seems, but I wish the roads looked shoveled or southing
there is a texture pack that fixes the snow like you said and removes snow from roads below a certain amount, making much more realistic looking winters.
Did you make sure to generate High Quality Caches for these specific areas before going to them on the sim? You'll get a much more accurate recreation when doing so.
Imagine the large landscape of MFS with its weather system combined with the toolbox that is Arma which allows for gameplay in a real environment with cars and beautiful roads. In Switzerland we have free access to all elevation data, sat map, street vector files, shapefiles of all the buildings and their shapes, rivers, lakes, where the forests are located and even where single bushes and trees are standing. I really crave a game engine that could handle this. The enfusion engine is not there yet and I'm not sure it will ever support such large maps. UE5 now supports massive maps but implementing all the geo-functionality is way to complicated for me. With world streaming like in MFS to enable large multiplayer servers this is my dream of a "drive around for fun" - game. Or a flight sim or a truck sim or a fight sim or what ever one likes.
Man, this reminds me so much of filming cinematics in Minecraft. The shaders that those devs come up with are truly an inspiration to behold. Was so much fun to just fly around the world, filming every bit of the detail. That and the awesome photo realistic clouds just like these. Good times
Microsoft flight simulator is realistic but it's not quite finished it feels. It feels like the lightning needs some tweaks and the colours need some adjustment. Often the sim feels darker and less sunny than real life even in the same weather, the ground just appears too dull. The sim also doesn't have good saturation on buildings. Buildings look like dark grey post apocalyptic towers more than anything especially in New York and places like that. The trees could do with being lighter and more round shaped. The buildings could do with being a bit less textured (often they are overteztured with lots of dirt and mud) and they could do with having slightly different parameter values, they just don't look that realistic often. The sky also, is rarely the right colour. It always feels too dull or too green or too haazy. I've compared it to real life and it's always a bit out of colour.
11:27 is it sad? Not for your case. You present yourself as someone who explores the world in real-life, who values exploration. I'm sure video games cannot substitute that. But if you don't explore Earth, then yeah, it'd be pretty sad.
2kliksphillip is the superior phillip. We've got the game making journey + current interests. And kliksphillip has had coronavirus for like 2 years now.
I really hope one day they'll be able to add tornadic stormclouds into it, showing off the might of mother nature as you can watch the mesocyclone slowly rotate underneath an overshooting top of whispy clouds at 30.000 or so stretching for miles across and watch the thick and ominous wallclouds at the bottom throwing massive downpours of hail and rain combined with violent winds and perhaps a tornado as well, but I fear it probably will never be implemented properly because of the sheer complexity of such a cloud formation
It lacks some serious color depth. That's why the game looks sort of unrealistic. Deep Greens are lime green And the water is black instead of deep blue. It's inconsistent too apparently. But the colors in that game are always wrong it seems.
Your music is something else, so amazing! and the topics of your videos are right up my alley, sandbox valve games, engines and graphics and map making.. a true hero of our generation. Keep it up Philip, you're awesome!
yep, I've definetly fallen into the trap of "I can't tell you what I am doing, you would find it weird even though it isn't so I need to say something else "
As a casual sim fan i would fly around in this game with clear weather because there's no way i'd be able to find a runway unless i could see it, but i knew i was doing myself a disservice because as good as the ground looks... i didn't have any clouds, there's no way i could use live weather and see all the variety it could offer in case i couldn't land. I'd played around with weather settings before because the clouds are so beautiful but any time i was actually flying i turned them off, so over the last few days i've been teaching myself how to land in any weather using ILS and it's opened up a whole new world to me, landing on grass strips is still dependant on weather and it's fun to slip through gaps in the cloud to make a landing, but now whenever it's cloudy and raining outside i know i won't be hindered by using live weather :D, but most importantly, clouds.
>What does water look like? I genuinely burst out of laughter when you said that question. It's for these philosophical and rhetorical questions that I love graphic design in general
Flying thru clouds in an airplane is always a mixed filling: Its fun to see, but the turbulence isn't. I wonder what the next flight sim will look like.
MSFS2020 is an amazing achievement from a technical standpoint. It's a shame that things such as the constant downloads through an external launcher somehow ruin the experience with the product.
cameras will never be able to capture the image your eyes see or seen thats the limitations of a camera but with great timing you can capture a scene you can only see once cause the image got deleted and impossible to recreate ever again
I think the most mistakable comparisions would be from screenshots from the planes. I have a collection of images that I have used to always fool my friends. Most are pictures from an airplane with the wing in view. A lot of real images are mistaken as flight simulator, a lot of mfs2020 images are mistaken as real life. It used to be "this game almost looks like real life" to "woah this mountain almost looks like flight simulator."
Is it possible to sync the real time weather with flight simulator? It would be interesting to look outside the window, seeing the clouds and go into flight simulator to see the actual formation of the clouds. It would blow my mind. (it doesnt have to be 1:1 but rather a representation of the formations.)
i think a lot of difference between the real and simulated sunsets is actually the color balance! the camera notices the image being too warm and then balances it for a more balanced look, while in the game it just shows how it is
More work needed for the Autogen system to recognise tree types and where trees actually exist. Many of those lake district areas have far too many trees where none exist in the real world.
The only thing that ruins the immersion is that they don't want to add more autogen textures for buildings and trees, so some cities like Athens for example have one single autogen building texture in 3 color variations for literally every residential building in the entire city, while most of eastern Europe looks like a stereotypical village in France or Germany with no commie blocks. Moscow looks like Detroit and you wouldn't know where you are if you didn't stumble upon a rare landmark. More autogen textures would be far easier to add than the photogrammetry updates they are doing and they would enhance realism in every part of the world, not just in a select few cities in a select few countries. Trees also need more textures, as many of them have the same bland green look from Iceland to the mediterranean.
I have used FS to plot real photographs - where exactly the moon will rise, where it cross over, pass a skyscraper in various cities. Sunsets, etc. Google Earth is good for Sunsets/sunrises also, but I feel I have more control in FS with zoom features. There is a popular photo app for this (photopills, and others), but why pay for these apps...usually monthly when I have what I need here. The realism still blows my mind after all this time.
Have you updated the maps at least? I sometimes think I want to wander around MSFS just to add scenic view of my novel, like picking a random spot on the map that have good enough detail, use that area as my Novel's region and then just snaps pictures. I just need to hire someone to add the cities in a couple pics afterwards.
The maps generated by MSFS are really amazing. Makes me wonder if Bohemia is planning some sort of map generation like this for Arma 4... the maps we have right now are very close to Altis/Stratis in quality, would just need to improve the buildings and roads somewhat to be able to generate a playable Arma map out of satelite data.
you should never worry about getting sidetracked, especially on kliksphilip and 2kliksphilip, the personality and stories in your videos are what makes them so good!
I'm still waiting for MS to use the topography information and build a GTA type game from a REAL US city. With Flight Sim already simulating the land layout, they could go in and add all the hi texture buildings and interiors. Then use Forza tech for all the cars. Over time add another major city near by that you can drive too. So much potential here.
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best thing about philips videos is his passion for what he does, hands down
He sure is passionate when he's talking about AI generation lol.
you're the only real image in my head, philip.
lil bro has a confession to make 💀
You must be a member of the kult of klik
Phillip holds me in this reality
@@zXPeterz14 Yes, the KKP
Took the words right outta my mouth
Props to you on getting the perfect angles and positioning for Flight Simulator to compare the two.
It might actually not be too hard if you know the location and can change the position and fox of the virtual camera easily
@@njdotson shut up
the game doing rainbows at 8:19 shouldnt come as a surprise with how much this game does but still caught me off guard :o
i wonder how accurate they made them
the fact that this sim can be so huge and look so real at the same time is really something to behold
well it doesn't look that good up close, that's part of the answer, but the other is "the cloud"
Yeah the textures and foliage don't look good, and the landscapes are very basic. But it is rendering tons of data at once, and the lighting and clouds look insanely realistic, you're also not supposed to look too close in this type of game, so it doesn't matter too much. Maybe the next Flight Simulator MS releases will look almost exactly like real life. The next generation is gonna be crazy
@@MrZodiac011 i didnt say it was bad or matter, just explained. For example a game like gta or whatever, also with big map (but tiny in comparasion to msfs) have lots of detail and looks 100x better up close.
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j It’s a game about flying, I sure hope there’s a cloud or two
This kind of realism has actually been possible for the last 2-3 generations of computer hardware. However, almost every game dev studio prioritises other things and usually ignores the simulation aspect that can bring realism to a game world, so yeah its always nice when a studio prioritises the simulation as well.
Please continue this series with 3D scans! That was so fun
07:36 If you pause at the moment you reach 5.3 Speed (m/s), it looked very similar to the real life example.
2:33 I actually did this to show some friends how the moon looked in Jamaica while I was there. They didn't believe me that the crest of the moon makes a U shape rather than a C shape so I went back in time to 2013 to when I was there and sure enough it was exactly in the sky where I expected it to be and looked how I expected it to be. That was pretty cool to see first hand.
This happened to my buddy Eric once
I did this with a solar eclipse that I missed in RL because it was on the other side of the world. It looked pretty good recreated in the sim as well, but not the same of course.
@@Republic3D Ooooh that's pretty smart. I hadn't thought about checking that out
Meteorologist here. Well done talking about the different elements and effects of humidity and wind. Bonus for mentioning the crepuscular rays (rays of sunlight)! I would recommend looking up the actual weather from a local observation point and seeing if that helps your recreation. Look up historical records or METAR (all caps) archives. You would have to decode the METAR but there are sites for that. Also would like to see if you can make a rainbow with the sun at your back at less than 42 degree elevation (key) and rain in-front of you. Good luck and thanks for showing me the weather side of flight sim.
I could watch you make videos about game or AI graphics for all eternity, it’s really fascinating
Don’t worry I share your obsession with virtual worlds, and just as you I appreciate the beauty of the real world more AND the art of capturing that beauty in virtual worlds
Same as Accursed Farms
@@LazyBuddyBan ross and philip are my favourite youtubers
I agree, I love this kind of stuff!
i understand the cloud obsession, they are amazing
You know as an atmospheric physicist I can totally understand your fascination for those clouds. In fact, I gotta check them out myself now!!
You should make a video discussing snow in gaming or AI image generation. I think that’d be really interesting for those obsessed with virtual worlds and how they try to capture the beauty of the real one.
Days Gone would be a good candidate for that. The way the ground slowly gets covered in snow is mesmerising.
This video made me realize again how much i love your range of interests and your devotion to them.
The way you can get completely interested in small parts of games that many people play rather mindlessly is amazing. Talking about virtual clouds, and comparisons from the game to the real world. Talking about both current- old and future technology, both in Hardware and Software.
You are the rare kind of person that i could see talking to for hours just listening, because you have a way of making the smallest and least-important seeming topics absolutely mesmerizing.
Keep doing what you're doing Philip.
amen
the fact that he puts clouds on par with real-time lighting and physics makes me think this will imminently become an obsession in his new games which are definitely coming out soon. Especially Destruction Darius 2.
just so you know, we care about every bit of your video. thanks for making these
Great video - I’ve been a huge fan of MSFS 2020 since September 2020 and I still marvel at the depth of its physical modeling, including clouds, humidity, wind, and more. As an optical engineer, I’m also impressed with how well lighting is simulated at all levels including atmospheric. It’s easy to make your own weather but even easier with utilities like Weather Preset Pro that adds dozens of amazing presets to the built in ones. The astronomy is accurate too. You can even see solar eclipses if you get the date, time, and position right.
you're the only thing i wouldn't upscale, you don't need it ❤❤
I don't know if you've given VR a go in Flight Simulator yet, but boy does it make everything even better. Flying through cloud formations is just such a joy.
I feel like goku on flying nimbus
They need to make a Earth-scale open world game at some point using this data. It would be the best game ever made.
Technically, it's already an Earth-scale open-world game. That's what flight simulators are.
i said that when it came out...eg. Fly the 747 from Perth to Brisbane and land...get into car and drive to Sydney, walk to a train station etc etc...
Could a cross between GTA and Carmen Sandiego work? Not what you were asking for, but an interesting question nonetheless.
the other thing that people often overlook with photorealism is the "photo" part. simulate lights and fog and clouds all you want, but until you get the behavior of an actual camera down, it'll still have tells. depth of field, aperture, lens flare, stuff like that that im not smart enough to really describe properly.
I usually never think of this, and I feel like it's not a very visible thing, but that was some great writing!
8:15 To add onto that, category 5 hurricane Michael hit Panama City Beach, FL in 2018. It leveled huge portions of the city. I had to visit that city for work roughly a week after the hurricane and the city was full of tractors, construction equipment, road crews and power crews working around the clock and sleeping in their trucks. Most homes were destroyed, most businesses were destroyed. Locals had all moved away since they didn't have a place to sleep or a place to work. 4 years later that city is still being rebuilt.
I noticed in one of my many hundred+ hours of exploring RDR2, when it rains, the ground is insanely shiny when the sun hits it just right. Preposterous, I thought. Then, days later at the market I saw how wet the ground was, and in the evening as we left, how shiny the ground really could be when hit by sunlight, blinding even!
Virtual worlds have made me focus hyper attentively at the world around me, and made me appreciate it's subtler beauties.
Same here! Especially after doing some 3D modeling and paying more attention to those details such as lighting and foliage in games I notice myself having a new appreciation for the beauty of what we try so hard to replicate.
Mr Philip, if you have a look through different FS2020 mods you'd come across one that replaces Bing-maps image data with Google-maps image data instead. This does provide higher resolution images and with much better contrast, however some models dont quite match up completely.
I have no idea how but your content is always so interesting and entertaining
thoroughly enjoyed this one.. amazing video as always :D
8:30 Truck is being like: 'pls help'
Always here for clouds videos
As a scientist, I feel like I can relate to the last parts of this video (and a lot of others if I'm being honest lol). I believe you don't need the confirmation that what you're doing is not against or somehow depreciating the natural beauty but ensuring that a much larger population could have access to it.
Should you be enjoying all the beautiful things that you come across? sure. But who says that there's a particular way of enjoying things? Our life experiences play a very important role in how we appreciate things. I can't say that I'd enjoy a hiking trip the same way a geologist or a botanist would. I love watching 2kliks and kliks videos because it almost feels like sitting through a colloquium where you go over questions you asked, results you found etc. or some philosophical discussion and it helps me get a new perspective to look at things.
Oops. Typed out a TH-cam comment like a personal message. It's too late now. gg.
This video is just my thing, thank you Philip, nice work!
A lot of airports will spit out the cloud heights in a coded format. It’s part of an hourly report called a METAR used for aviation-related weather decision making. They spit out a cloud condition report that’s stylized like this:
FEW280 SCT150 BKN045 OVC006
FEW represents few clouds (1/8 to 2/8 sky coverage)
SCT represents scattered (3/8 to 5/8 coverage)
BKN represents a broken ceiling (6/8 to 7/8 coverage)
OVC represents an overcast layer (8/8 coverage)
If there’s no clouds, you may see CLR or SKC. The caveat is that some stations only report clouds below a certain height.
The number after the layer type is how high the clouds are above ground level (AGL) in hundreds of feet. So, 280 is 28,000ft AGL, 150 is 15,000ft AGL, 045 is 4500ft AGL, and 006 is 600ft AGL.
unsubbed, i thought you were american and not british. Please do better next time
Love the flight simulator content please keep exploring it its a hidden gem
2:30 i actually planned a two day hike using msfs2020
Your point about the digital world giving you a greater appreciation for the real world is something I can connect with. Learning to map in source from your tutorials got me looking so much more closely at the world and the intricacies in how things look in nature.
8:47 "You thought I was going to end the video here" WTF?! hahaha damn.
I’m kinda disappointed by the snow in this game. It seems to start on roads walk ways first as the amount of snow goes up and that feels like the opposite of what should happen. It really shows in 6:18. But I also can’t claim to of been in the sky during winter so maybe this is more accurate than it seems, but I wish the roads looked shoveled or southing
really depends in reality. can definitely happen that snow fills up the lower ground first and then a hill/smaller mountain because of wind
there is a texture pack that fixes the snow like you said and removes snow from roads below a certain amount, making much more realistic looking winters.
Love your content and humor!😂❤
that was a fun video, thank you phillip
Did you make sure to generate High Quality Caches for these specific areas before going to them on the sim? You'll get a much more accurate recreation when doing so.
Imagine the large landscape of MFS with its weather system combined with the toolbox that is Arma which allows for gameplay in a real environment with cars and beautiful roads.
In Switzerland we have free access to all elevation data, sat map, street vector files, shapefiles of all the buildings and their shapes, rivers, lakes, where the forests are located and even where single bushes and trees are standing.
I really crave a game engine that could handle this. The enfusion engine is not there yet and I'm not sure it will ever support such large maps. UE5 now supports massive maps but implementing all the geo-functionality is way to complicated for me.
With world streaming like in MFS to enable large multiplayer servers this is my dream of a "drive around for fun" - game. Or a flight sim or a truck sim or a fight sim or what ever one likes.
Man, this reminds me so much of filming cinematics in Minecraft. The shaders that those devs come up with are truly an inspiration to behold. Was so much fun to just fly around the world, filming every bit of the detail. That and the awesome photo realistic clouds just like these. Good times
Microsoft flight simulator is realistic but it's not quite finished it feels.
It feels like the lightning needs some tweaks and the colours need some adjustment.
Often the sim feels darker and less sunny than real life even in the same weather, the ground just appears too dull.
The sim also doesn't have good saturation on buildings. Buildings look like dark grey post apocalyptic towers more than anything especially in New York and places like that.
The trees could do with being lighter and more round shaped.
The buildings could do with being a bit less textured (often they are overteztured with lots of dirt and mud) and they could do with having slightly different parameter values, they just don't look that realistic often.
The sky also, is rarely the right colour. It always feels too dull or too green or too haazy. I've compared it to real life and it's always a bit out of colour.
"virtual world appreciation" huh
Ross Scott collab when? 😳
11:27 is it sad? Not for your case. You present yourself as someone who explores the world in real-life, who values exploration. I'm sure video games cannot substitute that.
But if you don't explore Earth, then yeah, it'd be pretty sad.
2kliksphillip is the superior phillip. We've got the game making journey + current interests. And kliksphillip has had coronavirus for like 2 years now.
Great video especially as I live in the Lake District
I really hope one day they'll be able to add tornadic stormclouds into it, showing off the might of mother nature as you can watch the mesocyclone slowly rotate underneath an overshooting top of whispy clouds at 30.000 or so stretching for miles across and watch the thick and ominous wallclouds at the bottom throwing massive downpours of hail and rain combined with violent winds and perhaps a tornado as well, but I fear it probably will never be implemented properly because of the sheer complexity of such a cloud formation
It lacks some serious color depth. That's why the game looks sort of unrealistic.
Deep Greens are lime green
And the water is black instead of deep blue. It's inconsistent too apparently. But the colors in that game are always wrong it seems.
imagine if FlightSim would be the next platform for everything, and videogames would play in Real-Life locations on earth :D
8:10 cloud's looking like Bowser there
I love your Flight Simulator videos
Your music is something else, so amazing! and the topics of your videos are right up my alley, sandbox valve games, engines and graphics and map making.. a true hero of our generation. Keep it up Philip, you're awesome!
Flight sim series is really enjoyable :)
yep, I've definetly fallen into the trap of "I can't tell you what I am doing, you would find it weird even though it isn't so I need to say something else "
As a casual sim fan i would fly around in this game with clear weather because there's no way i'd be able to find a runway unless i could see it, but i knew i was doing myself a disservice because as good as the ground looks... i didn't have any clouds, there's no way i could use live weather and see all the variety it could offer in case i couldn't land. I'd played around with weather settings before because the clouds are so beautiful but any time i was actually flying i turned them off, so over the last few days i've been teaching myself how to land in any weather using ILS and it's opened up a whole new world to me, landing on grass strips is still dependant on weather and it's fun to slip through gaps in the cloud to make a landing, but now whenever it's cloudy and raining outside i know i won't be hindered by using live weather :D, but most importantly, clouds.
PLEASE MORE CLOUD FOOTAGE I BEG YOU. STORM WEATHER, JUST FLYING THROUGH THOSE DARK CLOUDS WITH THUNDERBOLTS LIGHTING IT UP I BEG YOU
>What does water look like?
I genuinely burst out of laughter when you said that question. It's for these philosophical and rhetorical questions that I love graphic design in general
Flying thru clouds in an airplane is always a mixed filling:
Its fun to see, but the turbulence isn't.
I wonder what the next flight sim will look like.
I understand you having your obsession with clouds. I litteraly can’t stop thinking about weather stuff
8:47 - 11:47 THE BEST PART OF THIS VIDEO! I AM SUBBED, SO, LAT LONG COORDINATES, PLEASE???
US-CANADA NATURAL BORDER BUT...
I can't wait for the rain man weather man with a beastly pc to pop up
patiently waiting for 2025 so i can watch philip gush about the tech in star citizen
Another game that has this effect on me is Euro and American Truck Simulator
lovely video mr philip
MSFS2020 is an amazing achievement from a technical standpoint. It's a shame that things such as the constant downloads through an external launcher somehow ruin the experience with the product.
cameras will never be able to capture the image your eyes see or seen
thats the limitations of a camera but with great timing you can capture a scene you can only see once cause the image got deleted and impossible to recreate ever again
I massively enjoyed this, please continue!
give assetto corsa with sol and pure installed a try and see what modders can do using a 9 yo race sim
I enjoyed watching this thanks :)
4:16 you need to change the temperature as that effects the color of the sunset. I have no idea if that's simulated in flight sim though
It looks like a arma 3 map, it looks so good
Quick tip everything always looks better in snow always add snow and arctic features
I think the most mistakable comparisions would be from screenshots from the planes. I have a collection of images that I have used to always fool my friends. Most are pictures from an airplane with the wing in view. A lot of real images are mistaken as flight simulator, a lot of mfs2020 images are mistaken as real life. It used to be "this game almost looks like real life" to "woah this mountain almost looks like flight simulator."
Did you install the world updates for this video this time?
Is it possible to sync the real time weather with flight simulator? It would be interesting to look outside the window, seeing the clouds and go into flight simulator to see the actual formation of the clouds. It would blow my mind. (it doesnt have to be 1:1 but rather a representation of the formations.)
It is! You could have flown right into the eye of Hurricane Ian a few days ago if you had wanted.
8:47 - 11:47 THE BEST PART OF THIS VIDEO! I AM SUBBED, SO, LAT LONG COORDINATES, PLEASE???
US-CANADA NATURAL BORDER BUT...
Love the turbo wind turbines in the hurricane
i think a lot of difference between the real and simulated sunsets is actually the color balance! the camera notices the image being too warm and then balances it for a more balanced look, while in the game it just shows how it is
Anyone else notice the water break at 8:06?
More work needed for the Autogen system to recognise tree types and where trees actually exist. Many of those lake district areas have far too many trees where none exist in the real world.
The only thing that ruins the immersion is that they don't want to add more autogen textures for buildings and trees, so some cities like Athens for example have one single autogen building texture in 3 color variations for literally every residential building in the entire city, while most of eastern Europe looks like a stereotypical village in France or Germany with no commie blocks. Moscow looks like Detroit and you wouldn't know where you are if you didn't stumble upon a rare landmark. More autogen textures would be far easier to add than the photogrammetry updates they are doing and they would enhance realism in every part of the world, not just in a select few cities in a select few countries. Trees also need more textures, as many of them have the same bland green look from Iceland to the mediterranean.
Any way to add commie blocks?
3klik and Digital foundry are my favourite TH-cam channels.
I have used FS to plot real photographs - where exactly the moon will rise, where it cross over, pass a skyscraper in various cities. Sunsets, etc. Google Earth is good for Sunsets/sunrises also, but I feel I have more control in FS with zoom features. There is a popular photo app for this (photopills, and others), but why pay for these apps...usually monthly when I have what I need here. The realism still blows my mind after all this time.
"The wind turbines love it" - 8:26
Have you updated the maps at least?
I sometimes think I want to wander around MSFS just to add scenic view of my novel, like picking a random spot on the map that have good enough detail, use that area as my Novel's region and then just snaps pictures.
I just need to hire someone to add the cities in a couple pics afterwards.
The maps generated by MSFS are really amazing. Makes me wonder if Bohemia is planning some sort of map generation like this for Arma 4... the maps we have right now are very close to Altis/Stratis in quality, would just need to improve the buildings and roads somewhat to be able to generate a playable Arma map out of satelite data.
I spent a week in Lake District with my girlfriend in the summer of 2021, it was absolutely majestic. I can't wait to go back
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The video Valve found CS2 smoke inspiration.
i want EVERY game to have microsoft flight simulators clouds. They need to sell the cloud engine to other game studios ASAP
This is the best video game cloud video since sliced bread!
we had real time day night cycles in 1999
8:47 - 11:47 LAT LONG COORDINATES PLEASE...
you should never worry about getting sidetracked, especially on kliksphilip and 2kliksphilip, the personality and stories in your videos are what makes them so good!
That elder scrolls dig lmao
Yeah Flight Sim doesn't use Google Maps it uses Bing Maps. That would be why it's dogshit.
Ever go climbing out there on that grit?
I'm still waiting for MS to use the topography information and build a GTA type game from a REAL US city. With Flight Sim already simulating the land layout, they could go in and add all the hi texture buildings and interiors. Then use Forza tech for all the cars. Over time add another major city near by that you can drive too. So much potential here.