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It wouldn't be impossible at all to pull in locations of all ships and render them, though.
by flemhans 6y ago
It wouldn't be impossible at all to pull in locations of all ships and render them, though.
- jdmichal 6y agoOne could do a pretty good job of it too. AIS data contains position, heading, and speed. So it's everything you need to interpolate movement between data updates.
- selectodude 6y agoThe game struggles to render everything enough already.
- jhgb 6y agoIsn't that what spatial trees are for?
- Macha 6y agoIs rendering ships on approximately real world courses more rendering work than rendering them on pseudorandomly selected courses? I don't think anyone is suggesting the game ramps up the density settings or pulls in high res models for them
- sandworm101 6y agoYes. The stock ships may be scenery objects running in optimized positions/places. Realworld data would not be optimized.
- bozzcl 6y agoThe only problem being, nobody provides AIS data for free. Though I wonder how much a subscription would cost for personal use.
- tantalor 6y agoOoh do planes too. https://flightaware.com/ https://flightaware.com/
- dreen 6y agoI was under the impression the newest MS Flight Sim does have all the planes flying around according to real data.