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Stuck Suez cargo ship in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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For the record: it's just a mod.

It wouldn't be impossible at all to pull in locations of all ships and render them, though.

One 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.

The game struggles to render everything enough already.

Isn't that what spatial trees are for?

Is 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

Yes. The stock ships may be scenery objects running in optimized positions/places. Realworld data would not be optimized.

The only problem being, nobody provides AIS data for free. Though I wonder how much a subscription would cost for personal use.

Ooh do planes too.

https://flightaware.com/

I was under the impression the newest MS Flight Sim does have all the planes flying around according to real data.

I'm not sure about all, but it definitely incorporates real-time plane tracking.

Yes, real-time aircraft are in the latest MSFS based on their real-world movements, with correct callsigns and flight numbers, if you turn the option on for real-world traffic.

The new MS Flight Simulator uses Bing Maps imagery so I originally thought the satellite map happened to include the ship and thus the game would've had it as well, at least in "flat" form as a terrain texture.

"Just a mod" is a bit of an understatement I think, as I understand it, the FS2020 core product is essentially a "hub" for 1st- and 3rd-party mods.

Should help it out by crashing into it

I loved that the mod included the little crane as well!

Considering the emphasis on real time data in MSFS, I'm surprised that shipping data wasn't already used to place ships in the game map.

On the topic of Microsoft Flight Simulator, does anyone have a pre-built system they would recommend?

Edit: Or a build at pcpartpicker?

It really depends on how you want to play it, as the requirement difference between 1080p single screen vs. Valve Index are massive. As opposed to most other flight sims, you'll want a GPU that is pretty close in performance to your CPU (which should be as powerful as possible). So essentially you want as good as you can afford / actually find in stock.

It's coming out for the XBOX Series S/X later this year, that might be the most cost effective way to play it.

The question will be whether the Series S/X version will run well enough to be worth buying.

I'll be keeping an eye on it. My dad always wanted to fly but never learned, and the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator has looked so impressive that I've debated whether a Series S/X and MFS might not be a fun gift for him to setup in the living room. Certainly more cost and space efficient, even if he only uses the console to play that one game.

>The question will be whether the Series S/X version will run well enough to be worth buying.

I also wonder whether the Xbox version will support all the HOTAS, yokes, pedals, and throttles that the PC version does. Some Thrustmaster sticks aren't compatible with consoles, for example.

It's a bad time to build a flight-sim PC given the GPU shortage.

I wonder why the plane's roll was oscillating in the beginning. Some sort of an underdamped PID controller?

Does anyone know of an easy way to play the new Flight Sim in the cloud? I'm curious to check it out, but not curious enough to purchase a gaming computer! All the solutions I've seen sound quite involved. Ideally I'd just be able to play it with zero setup but maybe that's unrealistic...

Supposedly after it releases on the XboxX in a few months they're going to take a look at getting it onto Xcloud. Alternatively you could use something like Shadow which looks like one of the more straightforward cloud gaming services (although I haven't tried it yet)

Ah, Xcloud post Xbox would make sense! I guess I’ll wait and see :) thanks!

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