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The next version after the last one shown, Flight Simulator 5, was the first version to include the entire Earth. It was very simple, but full size, and the bas
by Nition 4y ago
The next version after the last one shown, Flight Simulator 5, was the first version to include the entire Earth. It was very simple, but full size, and the basic layout of the ground and hills was all there.
Although back then, the ground was flat and hills were just big pyramids with different heights placed on the flat ground. The ground in FS 5 now had textures, albeit very low res, but the hills and mountains didn't (although Mt Rainier was textured). In later versions the hills got textures, but it wasn't until Flight Simulator 2000 that the entire terrain became a heightmap mesh.
- lkramer 4y agoI played FS4 so much as a kid, but being dumb and living in Europe and wanted to see a familiar continent, so several times I set my computer to fly east from New York on autopilot and then went to bed, only to find that my plane had mysteriously crashed before reaching the fabled continent before I woke up...
- Nition 4y agoI had Flight Simulator 5 and lived in New Zealand. There were only three New Zealand airports: Auckland, Wellington, and Queenstown. Queenstown, which is quite beautiful in real life, was about the worst case scenario for Flight Sim 5 because it's all hills and mountains. So the whole area was a bright green untextured lumpy mess. But of course I was still excited that it had airports in my country at all. One day I was messing around in the scenery library browser and discovered that all the Flight Sim 4 scenery - with Flight Sim 4 graphics - was included too.