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Post SU3 UPDATE

collensr

collensr

SOH-CM-2025
I was tracking SU3 and the fact that we can download stuff to hard drive now. At the moment I have 2020 "humming" and really enjoying it. When I did have 2024 in January and when I did manage to start a few flights I was most disappointed in the scenery texture rendering which was probably THE thing I was most looking forward to seeing. This was on the back of the massive marketing and the Grand Canyon launch videos etc. Whilst you got pebbles and rocks when you are on the ground once airborne (from what I saw back then) the textures and scenic rendering particularly out in the high desert in California/Nevada was worse than 2020. In mountainous areas the rock faces were as blurred and as indistinct as 2020. Interested to learn if this stuff has improved now we are on SU3?
 
Mountainous rock faces were always much better than 2020 since the release of 2024 provided your close enough to them.
 
Hmm that's the problem for me - I'm not close to them. I get that its great if you are a bush pilot etc but for normal VFR heights (both GA and Mil) they looked nowhere near as fancy as those lovely Grand Canyon videos in the launch.
 
2024 is great for low and slow bush and chopper flying. One of my first adventures was flying around Sedona and landing the Bell Helicopter on top of various provinces we had recently visited. This was an area where they did a pretty good job of portraying the actual buildings and terrain in some detail. Landing on top of "Baby Bell" which we had scrambled up was particularly fun.

At altitude the LOD takes over and sometimes not so good.
 
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