Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 - A320neo @ London Heathrow to Paderborn Lippstadt [DEUTSCH/GERMAN]
1Microsoft Flight Simulator (colloquially known as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020)[note 1] is a flight simulator developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is the eleventh major entry in the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, which was first released in 1982, and preceded by Microsoft Flight Simulator X. It was released on August 18, 2020 for Microsoft Windows. It is the first game in the series to also get a console release, expected for the Xbox family in 2021.[1]
Flight Simulator simulates the entire Earth using textures and data from Bing Maps, whilst three-dimensional representations of the world's features are generated by Microsoft Azure technology. It uses the Azure cloud to render visuals, enhance visual fidelity, and simulate real-world data and effects, as well as calculate physics. Some players received the alpha version as part of the game's Insider program. On July 13, 2020, Microsoft opened up preorders, and the PC version became available on August 18, 2020.
Flight Simulator was released to critical acclaim, with praise for its graphical fidelity, with it being called the "safest way to travel" during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, criticism also arose for its loading times and some inaccurate rendering of landmarks.
Flight Simulator uses Turn 10 Studios's in-house developed game engine, and leverages Microsoft Azure data, accessing over two petabytes of data from the cloud on demand.[jargon][2] Microsoft partnered up with Blackshark.ai[3] who developed a solution that uses the Microsoft Azure cloud and artificial intelligence that analyzes map data and photogrammetry to generate photorealistic 3D models of buildings, trees, terrain, and so on. This allows the simulator to depict most parts of the world in 3D photorealism, and other parts in high definition.[4] The game's engine utilizes satellite imagery or fly-by image scans as the basis for height and terrain texture data.[jargon] An offline procedural generation AI then reads these textures based on their own parameters and properly populates terrain with materials, roads, buildings, bushes, trees and more based on brush set assets the developers have made. Afterwards, graphic artists can further go in and embellish specific locations with even more detail with photogrammetrically captured materials and textures. Flight Simulator features multiple terabytes of texture and height map data. Using a base mesh and textures, the game uses the Internet connection to stream even higher quality terrain data onto the PC or console through the Azure cloud as the player plays, boosting the game's fidelity and graphical diversity.[5]
Asobo has created their own flight model engine, allowing thousands of surfaces and 3D forces and moments to be fully simulated.[2] There are also realistic physics and weather systems, and utilization of real-world weather data. An example used at E3 2019 was that if it was raining somewhere in real life, it would be raining in-game. Individual clouds will have their own behaviors and they will impact aircraft performance depending on its location within the system.[6] Flight Simulator features a 600-kilometre (370 mi) draw distance and allows the player to see storms hundreds of miles away, with lightning cracking inside of clouds.[7]
Through cloud-based technology, Flight Simulator streams data to the computer or console in real time, with AI being utilized to extrapolate geometry from a blend of satellite and flyover imagery.[jargon][8] Flight Simulator converts 3D scans of the environment into the game world. Other sources of data include terrain data for landscaping, data for foliage density, real-time meteorological data, and air traffic updates.[9] A separate atmospheric renderer simulates accurate humidity and pollution.[10] Microsoft has stated that the player's aircraft feels air as it lifts, drags, or slides as they come in contact with it, accounting for ice on the wings, pollution particles, or how wind moves through buildings or across tree tops, as well as friction of rubber to asphalt when the aircraft touches down, with the aircraft responding accurately to each of these instances.[11] Skyscrapers cast shadows over each other that darken as the player reaches street level and cities will disperse light at night that radiates the sky.[12] Cloud technology is also used to calculate things such as the way air flows around natural structures such as mountains to cause pockets of turbulence, or stream in air traffic, time of day and weather from the real world.[13] In regards to foliage, the game geometrically renders individual blades of grass and seas also contain waves created by the wind.[14] Because of this technology, smokes from the 2020 West Coast fires can be seen through the game.[15]
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