“The world, particularly the Large Knowledge world, between Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will likely be shared,” explains Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann. “We’re not going to have two totally different digital twins — cities like London are going to be shared, POIs are shared, the peak subject (DEM) and aerials are all shared. What’s totally different in MSFS 2024 is we have now optimized how the information is dropped at the participant. So, there will likely be much more within the Cloud, which permits us to do extra. As an alternative of 23 species of timber, we now have one thing like 200. And in the end with that it permits you to be much more correct. There’ll nonetheless be timber in each worlds, however one will likely be a bit bit extra generic and the opposite extra refined, however the worlds would be the similar.”
Subtle is a key phrase in terms of describing what’s concerned within the newest World Replace XVII for Microsoft Flight Simulator. From using improved cameras to extra correct ranges of information, the entire mission behind this replace is pushed by using the newest tech which wasn’t obtainable the primary time these areas have been mapped. It’s not simply that this replace has been lengthy requested by followers, but it surely has been recognized by the flight sim group as a mission they’ve needed to deal with for some time.
“We had photogrammetry (for the areas), but it surely didn’t look notably good. And I believe that’s what folks noticed, proper? Certain, town was there, but it surely was darkish, the constructing shadows have been method too black, and there have been every kind of points,” explains Neumann. “London was highlighted from the neighborhood as a ‘Please, please replace London.’ So, I all the time had that on my thoughts, that we’ve bought to do one thing with London. And as I used to be working with the Bing group, we’d speak about it rather a lot, about desirous to do England accurately.”