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Side comment: I just got the Normandy 2.0 map for DCS World, a PC flight simulator, which models 1940s English channel with northern France and southern England
by sundvor 3y ago
Side comment: I just got the Normandy 2.0 map for DCS World, a PC flight simulator, which models 1940s English channel with northern France and southern England. Last night I flew across London, then down to the (7 sisters?) cliffs. Absolutely gorgeous rolling fields, buildings, factories etc - and a ticking Big Ben clock.
The biggest difference from the modern world as seen through Flight Simulator is in verticality, with the large body of buildings being relatively low, and perhaps materials - no massive walls of glass present at all.
They've done some stellar work on this - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/terrains/normandy_2.0_terrain/ https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/terrains/norm... .
- Archelaos 3y agoWhat I really would love to see in games like MS Flight Simulator is time-machine scenarios, where you fly your time machine over an AI generated model of the world at a certain year, say 1492. Model generation should be guided by statistics and estimates for the particular year (such as historical maps, population density, vegitation types, settlement types, ...) and might by supplemented by "manually" created items, were we have specific knowledge of something (like a 3D model of the Tower of London at this time).