NZFF

by **Kelvinr** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:39 pm

http://outerra.com/wfeatures.html

by **kcgb** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:27 pm

http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17222

by **gojozoom** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:31 am

I've been keeping an eye on them, it's very promising.

by **Kelvinr** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:52 am

MS Flight wouldn't even make the 1st audition compared to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L3ZUQUGvxQ

by **Kelvinr** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:02 pm

Kelvinr wrote:
QUOTE (Kelvinr @ Mar 10 2012,11:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
MS Flight wouldn't even make the 1st audition compared to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L3ZUQUGvxQ

And another
Outerra latest demo video

by **Ian Warren** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:34 pm

Maybe i have to look at these a little more in depth cos that looked good , hav'nt followed this but when is the release off the complete program .

by **Kelvinr** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:46 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 10 2012,2:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Maybe i have to look at these a little more in depth cos that looked good , hav'nt followed this but when is the release off the complete program .

Ian I have paid $15 USD which enables some other in sim features such as planes and scenery. See below for the link to the (legal) torrent that will download the entire earth so that the sim does not download it in game. This I think is a little like how tile proxy works but quite different in many ways.

If you are interested in the demo them you can also download this outerra earth torrent (completely legal) torrent that is 12GB which covers all the earth. This means you don't have to wait ingame while the scenry is downlaoded as you go. I suppose the way it works currently is not too disimilar to tile proxy but definately different in many ways.

I believe the full (paid) alpha version will allow this data to be used and of course has a few features that are enabled also. The full dataset below may work in the demo version, not sure, but you won't have the aircraft and land vehicles in the demo.

Once I have downloaded I will share screenshots/video once able. I am quite busy Beta Testing REX Essentials at the moment so I'll try to get some time to do this.

Get the demo here:

http://outerraworld.com/appdata/Anteworld/...982.exe.torrent (torrent, please use this if you can) (you will need utorrent or similar program)

http://goo.gl/dmIUh (direct download, Europe)

http://outerraworld.com/appdata/Anteworld/...0.7.11.2982.exe (direct download, USA)

AND get the entire earth dataset here (you will need utorrent or similar program):

http://outerraworld....d/earth.torrent

I'm downloading now...

by **Ian Warren** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 2:03 pm

Cheers for that , i'll have a look later

by **Kelvinr** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:34 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 10 2012,3:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Cheers for that , i'll have a look later

Here is a video I made of New Zealand with the engine. Note that no Waterclass or landclass i.e rivers, roads, specific vegetation exist in this Alpha version just the Earth dataset. But it is extremely realistic in terms of environmental variables. I will post more soon.

It has the ability to accept vector landclasses such as rivers, roads, etc... and Procedural Cities, vegetations etc.. without the need to build all this manually in the Engine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgRkafpffio

by **Ian Warren** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:44 pm

With those coastlines , adding paddocks tree lines and all the roads rail , plantation landmarks making towns and city's with all the airfield and airports railways and harbours and the towns that would dang impressive .

by **Kelvinr** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:35 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 10 2012,5:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
With those coastlines , adding paddocks tree lines and all the roads rail , plantation landmarks making towns and city's with all the airfield and airports railways and harbours and the towns that would dang impressive .

Sure would wouldn't it?

I am just uploading a few more videos now that show the following:

All done over the south of the South Island.

- High Altitude flight
- Time of Day; changes to the environment (colour and shading)
- Fog generation (x2 videos)
- Mountains and trees
- Cockpit shadows

EDIT: OK here are some more videos, enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ptg4rGTMG8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ix0uXCTSzs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULyJmHgQBz4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIVSrTVRAr0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeGSfEq9K2s

To also let you know that there is a weather engine pending for this platform as well. God knows what that will surprise us with.

I will edit this post shortly with the links.

Here is a teaser screenshot:

by **MichaelBasler** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 4:23 am

Outerra is a very interesting development, indeed. I have been observing it for some time and bought the paid alpha immediately, and landscape indeed looks great.

However, I am under the impression flight simulation is not their main focus or even a serious focus at all. I've been watching their forum and there are numerous random ideas and suggestions on various types of games and simulations etc. However, based on the forum no one seems to be seriously working on a flight simulator stub (flight models, panels, airport buildings, ATC, all that) - which would be a splendid idea given the present situation in our field.

Regards, Michael

by **Kelvinr** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:22 am

MichaelBasler wrote:
QUOTE (MichaelBasler @ Mar 11 2012,5:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Outerra is a very interesting development, indeed. I have been observing it for some time and bought the paid alpha immediately, and landscape indeed looks great.

However, I am under the impression flight simulation is not their main focus or even a serious focus at all. I've been watching their forum and there are numerous random ideas and suggestions on various types of games and simulations etc. However, based on the forum no one seems to be seriously working on a flight simulator stub (flight models, panels, airport buildings, ATC, all that) - which would be a splendid idea given the present situation in our field.

Regards, Michael

Hi Michael.

I too have scoured the site looking for clues about whether this will make the cut for a flight sim. What i drew from the forum was that it is early days and the engine still needs a lot of polishing before it can be dressed up with any addonware so to speak. I'll keep an eye on the forum. Timmo (who created VLC) had his eye on this too, probably due to the engine's ability to utilise vector and procedural classes.

Cheers

by **Kelvinr** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:24 am

Cameni from Outerra has noted that MODIS landclass will be used for this Engine, see below for his quote:

"Global eco systems will be created and matched with MODIS world land type database (500m resolution, but will be procedurally refined like the elevation data), and then color-matched with Blue Marble colors.
Weather engine should draw from some rough data, which could be either generated or provided by an external service."

See here for a little outline of what this is
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci_team/meetin...land/friedl.pdf

by **Ian Warren** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:35 am

Are you sure its not called Fonterra and someone is milking you for money

by **Kelvinr** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:17 am

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 11 2012,11:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Are you sure its not called Fonterra and someone is milking you for money

They can try and milk but my udders are closed :-)

by **Ian Warren** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:34 am

Well be interesting to see what develops from this base , guess still be counted a few years for any real use compared to the current FSX .

by **skysimcaptain** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:34 am

This looks incredibly promising. Thanks for the heads up. DL the demo now. Will keep an eye on it's development for sure.

by **Kelvinr** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:32 pm

Where am I??

by **connor** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:36 pm

Taranaki!

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