Come with me in this Part 2 video in the Daher TBM 930 high-performance turbo-prop to continue our tour of the famous Dolomite mountains in the NE Italian Alps. You will soon see why this is a UNESCO World Heritage Area. Challenge yourself at the small grass airstrips. See the awesome, disastrous Vajont Dam. Circle incredible rocky peaks. Overfly beautiful lakes. See castles & other sites as well. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.
I dont think the sim does justice to these areas to be honest. The first issue is that Black sharks AI is often utterly useless at recognising tree types and yet the Photogrammetry process replaces the trees with the correct 3D models of the correct variety so it can be done. These areas will never look good when the Autogen trees dont reflect what is really there.
Secondly the peaks are a blurry mess with no discernible detail up close so they don’t look very good either. For me this sort of video just highlights how far we still have to go to get anywhere close to recreating these beautiful (in real life) areas in the sim.
If you look at these peaks in Google Maps they look miles better up close with a lot of detail. We are really not seeing what we could be seeing which is a shame. This image below is taken directly from Google Maps, its considerably more detailed than what we are seeing in the sim. Even in 2D in Google the detail is superb. Its obvious that resolution of the Bing images in this area is very poor by comparison.
This FLIGHT simulator is not a perfect SCENERY simulator, that’s for sure. Maybe one day it will be. I guess for pure scenery people can go to Google Earth. I just hope my videos highlight airfields with interesting geography/history/scenery etc for simmers so that they can have interesting places to fly around. Cheers.
Yeah your videos definitely do that. But the joy of flying areas in the Alps in my opinion should be seeing the mountains, they are after all Unesco listed areas of outstanding beauty. The sim can do much better if MS provide it with some decent data, its the poor Bing images that are spoiling it.
