Developer Q&A Twitch Series: World Updates - June 17th, 2021
597Join our community manager, Jayne, as she asks top community questions to Jorg Neumann, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator and Martial Bossard, Executive Producer at Asobo Studio.
For text version: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/twitch-dev-q-a-06172021/412412
Tune in on June 30th, 2021 live on Twitch.tv/MSFSOfficial at 10:30am PDT - we will have Part 2 to discuss Xbox and PC Improvements!
00:00 Introductions
02:41 World Update 5
12:06 World Update 6
16:20 Plane Announcement
21:58 Missing Airports?
24:21 How do you pick World Update areas?
25:10 Can we get airport gate lights to illuminate the ramps?
26:15 Hangar building height
27:06 Float planes?
30:21 How often is OSM updated?
32:24 Will World Updates always be by region/country?
34:31 Can Watermasks be generated by AI?
37:22 Runway lights in daytime?
38:04 What kind of team is dedicated to World Updates?
43:04 Photogrammetry cities
43:32 Will you improve first batch of POIs we had?
45:56 Details on team fixing airports
47:21 Will past challenges be available?
48:08 Will we see the Aurora Borealis in the sim?