How Microsoft Flight Simulator Recreated Our Entire Planet | Noclip Documentary
"We talk to Jorg Neumann (Microsoft) and Sebastian Wloch (Asobo) about the bleeding-edge technology that enabled them to recreate the digital twin of planet earth in the latest iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator."
0:00 - Introducing Microsoft Flight Simulator
3:26 - Building the Team
7:19 - Creating The Planet
15:54 - Adding the Human World
22:26 - Simulating Weather
25:51 - Designing Planes
30:09 - Where People Fly
32:34 - Credits
Everytime I see something about this simulator (it's so much more than just a game), I come away amazed at the level of detail in it.
This time, rather than the world, or weather systems, or buildings, or trees, or grass, or what have you. I found it incredibly impressive that they aren't just simulating the planes, they are simulating over 1000 points on each plane to more accurately simulate the effects of air interacting with the surfaces of a plane. Air that when combined with the weather system produces dynamic situations that make the flight far more realistic than in the past.
It was nice to hear them talk about how actual amateur and professional pilot feedback in forums prompted them to implement this as some aspects of flight (stalling) was just completely unrealistic in past flight simulators, and thus to more accurate model stalls in flight, you have to at least attempt to accurately model how the atmosphere interacts with the surface of multiple points of the plane when in flight.
I wonder how many people are still playing it as opposed to just explored it for a while (something i've been guilty of since the dos days, although I still fly ms combat flight sims)
For gamers? Probably not many. For pilots? Probably all of them. For simulationists, probably depends on how much into simulation they are and whether they have a passion for flying.
When I briefly did support for Microsoft Games back in the 90's, most of the support calls for Flight Simulator was from commercial pilots and amateur pilots.
Regards,
SB
