I am curious what is more popular and why. I am guessing photogrammetry because of how it is an exact copy of the world, but here are my thoughts on why I prefer to leave it off.
I prefer to fly in a world that is believable. Just using the autogen gives a much cleaner look to the cities. The lighting is better than PG buildings, and the melted look some cities have just makes it feel like flying over a wasteland. I wish Asobo would spent more time making the world alive than having every building looking like an exact replica of the real world. Flying over a world where the road traffic looks real, and the world looks more like an alive world instead of a dead melted wasteland is much more fun, in my opinion. Please Asobo at least give some time to the autogen and make the world more believable not have all your focus on photogrammetry.
On. More often than not it looks fine especially with Seasons Enhanced from Bijan and other scenery addons. When flying under VFR and using my real charts having it on helps quite a bit. Some things on charts are quite specific and with photogrammetry enabled I can see them.
So I have been thinking about this. Most VFR reference points on charts are fairly big structures, like bridges, wind farms, big lakes etc. It’s a specific small building. Would love to see VFR updates where all the vfr structures on charts are modelled and placed. They should include this in their workd updates.
I love it! It’s more immersive for me. I love the light show: the stars, the moon, the sky, the lights on the ground. The cockpits look better lit up at night.
I used to leave it on, but at some point I started doing it turned off. I didn’t like the performance issues and the awkward spots when moving into the PG area.
I find that photogrammetry makes for a much more realistic VFR experience, as landmarks actually look like themselves, in the right shape and color, even if they didn’t happen to be a custom-modeled POI.
Tubeliner folks might not see much difference because they don’t look at the ground and can’t see it anyway on half their IFR flights, of course.
It is an interesting argument right those doing ifr and tubes probably generally have it off for the extra performance while those flying helis and vfr will generally have it on for reference points
I discovered yesterday that you can set the number of floors in a building to -1. Someone else sets things up the same way I do. Nice to meet you.
The procedurally generated buildings are rendered larger in the game than they are in reality, so they end up obscuring the satellite imagery.
So because I didn’t like it and was looking for a solution, I found out there was a -1 setting and applied it, and it produced exactly the result I wanted.
So I fly a mixture, but I have to agree that something just hits differently when you fly at night. Especially on an oceanic flight, up there all alone. It’s quite peaceful!
Sunset trying to beat the sun going down between New Zealand and Australia is pretty fun but it definitely is the sky at that point your looking at for beauty
I just found out that I can achieve steady 30 fps with my modest I7-7700K + 1080ti (4k!) and most settings to high or ultra, when I turn photogrammetry off. I mostly fly VFR but the sim world still looks great for me. I don’t need PG.
I bought MSFS 2020 and 2024 exclusively for the photogrammetry - not for the planes, since I already had plenty of those in X-Plane and Prepar3D. I always fly with photogrammetry and Bing Maps on and honestly, I can’t imagine flying without them.
I will take a picture for you when im at my pc later today, for it is a very intresting point you make
But with these settings its is also easy to turn on the procedural generic buildings and in the same swap of settings turn photogrammetry off .
So if change on sundown you would have both
Unfortunatly this goes not for sunrise because in the sim it is not possible to switch to buildings off.
I think also it would be a nice enhancement for the sim if we could change the settings with a set of buttons at the ready to control these features full ingame but i do not know if this would be possible.
For Asobo’s devellopment team i would like to see them trying to make this possible, please
I quite like photogrammetry except for those horrible misshapen trees. If Asobo could get rid of them, it would be even better and it would also penalize performance less.
