thomas_mac
SOH-CM-2024
Trailer releases tomorrow
City Update 8: Las Vegas
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The sphere is animated - nice touch. Wonder if it's random or if it will follow planes on approach. I also noticed Penn & Teller on one hotel. I'm wondering who paid whom on that one. Did MS pay P&T to use their image, or did P&T pay MS for the advertising?
The sim should update itself next launch, then more will be available in the Marketplace as free downloads.
ZsoltB
Charter Member
nothing so far
DennyA
SOH-CM-2023
Wow, folks who paid for the FlyTampa Vegas/Airport scenery will not feel like they made a mistake. This City Update is a nice update over what was there originally, but the buildings all have that post-nuclear photogrammetry look in the MS update. FlyTampa's scenery is clean and sharp. Definitely not giving up my add-on. (Plus, the stock McCarran airport is horribad; FlyTampa's is really nice.)
Microsoft's update is nice, not knocking it. But if you fly in the area a lot, the FT scenery's well worth it. And using them together adds details in the areas surrounding the Strip, such as Area 15, which used to be generic buildings and is now photogrammetry.
Only glitch I found using them together is that the Sphere gets overlayed with the MS Sphere animation. I'm assuming FlyTampa will address that in an update.
Microsoft's update is nice, not knocking it. But if you fly in the area a lot, the FT scenery's well worth it. And using them together adds details in the areas surrounding the Strip, such as Area 15, which used to be generic buildings and is now photogrammetry.
Only glitch I found using them together is that the Sphere gets overlayed with the MS Sphere animation. I'm assuming FlyTampa will address that in an update.
That's just on the real hotel; it's photogrammetry, so it was captured when the did the TIN.
thomas_mac
SOH-CM-2024
DennyA
SOH-CM-2023
BTW, you can fix the conflict with the FlyTampa Vegas by going to Content Manager, using the Split View to expand the City Update to its components parts, and deleting the "Microsoft Las Vegas Strip" package.
Then you get the new photogrammetry around the rest of the city, and the excellent airport and non-irradiated Strip from the FlyTampa version.
Then you get the new photogrammetry around the rest of the city, and the excellent airport and non-irradiated Strip from the FlyTampa version.
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2023
Zsolt, there is no update when starting the sim. However, if you have the (free) World Update: United States II installed, there is an update for it in the Content Manager. The (free) City Update: Las Vegas is available from the Marketplace.
Dangerous Beans
SOH-CM-2022
I'm not impressed.
I just took a couple of flights in the new J3 Cub to check it out, the photogrammetry is pretty bad, about on par with London I would say which is also pretty bad.
For the second flight I turned the photogrammetry off and it looks very bizarre, lots of pylons sticking up every where with floating signs where they've just tried tacking bits onto the photogrammetry.
The only fully custom structures as far as I could see was the big rotating globe thingy and some fountains.
I just took a couple of flights in the new J3 Cub to check it out, the photogrammetry is pretty bad, about on par with London I would say which is also pretty bad.
For the second flight I turned the photogrammetry off and it looks very bizarre, lots of pylons sticking up every where with floating signs where they've just tried tacking bits onto the photogrammetry.
The only fully custom structures as far as I could see was the big rotating globe thingy and some fountains.
Search for Las Vegas in the Content Manager. You should see a "hambuger menu" icon at the right. That will open up the package into its component parts that can be deleted separately. I'm away from my flight rig at the moment (work...) but I'll try to get a screenshot later today.
DennyA
SOH-CM-2023
Even easier, there's now a fix available on FS.to that will get rid of the duplicate Sphere -- it keeps the MS version, since it (correctly) is visible in daylight as well.
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City Update 8: Las Vegas sphere fix for the FlyTampa scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS
✓ City Update 8: Las Vegas sphere fix for the FlyTampa scenery is a Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 mod created by Maxest. A quick fix for the FlyTampa scenery in Microsoft Flight Simulator, City Update 8: Las Vegas sphere fix removes the duplicated sphere and construction cranes near the...
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