Blackshark.ai:great start but still a way for improvements

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Let’s all just be honest - blackshark.ai has achieved more in the world of Flighsimulation (if not the entire gaming world) than anyone else did before. And I believe it can do even more. Currently I see some important areas where AI could do a better job or even achieve a new ways of rendering.

  1. Warehouses in every historical city centre. I don’t think it can be too hard for ai to distinguish between the historical (or just any city centre) and the industrial areas. Currently there are still way too many warehouses in the city centre when you flying closer to the ground.
  2. Big fuel storage tanks mostly found at industrial and harbour areas. Also, look very simple and can be rendered way more realistic than a round appartment buildings or just a generic warehouse.
  3. Suggestion:Marinas and ships. Big ships and leisure boats should not be a harder target to distinguish than a building. I think the AI can learn a way in a future to populate marinas and harbours with ships and boats where there a flat sattelite image. That would improve the immersion of any coastal city by a lot.
    I hope those suggestions are not overly complicated. :slight_smile:
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This being an AI and machine learning means that the more data that we feed them, the better they’re at identifying different types of buildings. This means it’s not just satellite data, but also accurately placed front, sides, back photos of buildings and organise them to be assigned to a specific building at specific point on earth. If you can feed it billions and trillions of photographic data, the AI could learn to render them better.

Until then, it’s difficult to train the AI to make a distinctions over buildings or terrain types without feeding it a huge amount of accurate data.

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For your third point:

I made a Wishlist item for this a while ago. Please add your vote and/or comment there
Wishlist item for Blackshark AI: marinas, piers and small (sail) boats - Self-Service / Wishlist - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

Since only 1 item is allowed per wishlist item, you can make the other 2 over there yourself.

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