excreationist
Married mouth-breather
In my posts about the possibility of being in a simulation I sometimes gave the example of Flight Simulator 2020.... I said it was "top down" so you can start above the clouds then see right down to blades of grass or leaves on trees...
https://lifesplayer.com/flightsim.php
This is what the grass actually looks like close up in ultra mode:
This is what trees look like close up: (some trees are higher res though)
It seems to involve "directional sprites" (like Wing Commander) where it shows different versions depending on its orientation to the viewer. When not in low detail mode it fades between the different orientations - even in "ultra" mode.
It has become very common to see the leaves on trees in games so I assumed Flight Simulator 2020 would be the same.
On the other hand it only cost me A$1 to obtain the game.... which is for the first month of XBox Game Pass membership then it is A$10.95 per month (for the PC membership).
On reddit the people said that it is a flight simulator so the trees don't need to show individual leaves - but there is a drone camera mode and in New York you begin right next to Central Park...
Here are the controls:
https://www.ytechb.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-keyboard-controls
Though when I start the game it says my computer doesn't meet the requirements (it is an i3) but it runs at pretty good framerates even in ultra mode. (I've got 16 Gb RAM and 4 Gb GTX 1080).
https://lifesplayer.com/flightsim.php
This is what the grass actually looks like close up in ultra mode:
This is what trees look like close up: (some trees are higher res though)
It seems to involve "directional sprites" (like Wing Commander) where it shows different versions depending on its orientation to the viewer. When not in low detail mode it fades between the different orientations - even in "ultra" mode.
It has become very common to see the leaves on trees in games so I assumed Flight Simulator 2020 would be the same.
On the other hand it only cost me A$1 to obtain the game.... which is for the first month of XBox Game Pass membership then it is A$10.95 per month (for the PC membership).
On reddit the people said that it is a flight simulator so the trees don't need to show individual leaves - but there is a drone camera mode and in New York you begin right next to Central Park...
Here are the controls:
https://www.ytechb.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-keyboard-controls
Though when I start the game it says my computer doesn't meet the requirements (it is an i3) but it runs at pretty good framerates even in ultra mode. (I've got 16 Gb RAM and 4 Gb GTX 1080).