In FSX, it's now possible to fly over Google Earth photo scenery and 3D buildings without downloading tons of tiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6yvUUVKfJQ
Wouldn't it be nice if this could be integrated into Aerofly?
In FSX, it's now possible to fly over Google Earth photo scenery and 3D buildings without downloading tons of tiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6yvUUVKfJQ
Wouldn't it be nice if this could be integrated into Aerofly?
That's amazing! How do they get the fantastic 3D modeling and trees on the terrain in Google Earth??
Just tried the latest google earth in VR. Absolutely amazing. Anyone without VR who gets to try this will surely be hooked
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Here's an explanation:
https://www.quora.com/How-are-the-3D…on-Google-Earth
Amazing!! Thanks for the info!
Another great link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnX8DLmjkCA
Still more explanation on how Google Earth is put together:
I just tried Google Earth VR... now I can clearly see the future of flight simulation terrain etc!
Boys.. THIS IS IT !!
There's no need to "mouth" about it anymore, the future is here. I just ripped the Rift of my face after solid three hours of browsing and hovering around our beautiful planet Earth.. WOW WOW WOW
I wish soooo much that Google will open this incredible database to other companies and developers so that someone like IPACS could actually join in and use this incredible environment for flightsim ..
Can you imagine that:cool:
Well don't get too close to anything, or you'll be flying misshapen blob simulator 2017.
It is beautiful at the right distances, though.
Earth Proxy/Google Earth View has been further developed:
1 - Now it uses the desktop GE app rather than the Web application Kevin was using in the Tampa tour video above
2 - Now it lets you use the joystick hat switch to pan around the Google Earth view, as shown in this post:
http://fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/…e-3#post-766019
3 - Now you can run Google Earth on a remote networked PC - a laptop in my case
As I said in my original post, it would be nice if we could link Aerofly to Google Earth 3D scenery like this.
In FSX, it's now possible to fly over Google Earth photo scenery and 3D buildings without downloading tons of tiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6yvUUVKfJQ
Wouldn't it be nice if this could be integrated into Aerofly?
Well, not entirely true: you don't get that scenery in FSX. You can link FSX to Google Earth and use FSX to 'fly' in Google Earth.
Well, not entirely true: you don't get that scenery in FSX. You can link FSX to Google Earth and use FSX to 'fly' in Google Earth.
Yes, and the effect is you are flying in Google Earth, with the flight model and cockpit graphics of FSX (or P3D). Try it!
Only videos I have seen don't have a simulator cockpit in sight.
Only videos I have seen don't have a simulator cockpit in sight.
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In the Tampa video, you see the FSX cockpit at the upper right!
Now,
having a port from AEFS 2 to GE 3d and some drivers allowing me to be able to use my ELITE hardware throttle quadrant in AEFS2 would surely make me adopt this simulator again as my only civil simulator game!
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In the Tampa video, you see the FSX cockpit at the upper right!
Yeah but that's all, that cockpit has FSX scenery out the window. I don't believe there is any actual fullscreen cockpit with Google Earth out of the windows.
Yeah but that's all, that cockpit has FSX scenery out the window. I don't believe there is any actual fullscreen cockpit with Google Earth out of the windows.
That's true. But the GE View is so spectacular compared to AeroFly FS2 scenery (outside of the DLC regions) that you really only jump back to the FSX cockpit for landing!
Problem though is the speed with which the scenery loads in Google Earth: you obviously see things loading when you look around. In Google Earth VR this is even more obvious: everytime you look around or change the view somehow the scenery is limited to a small circle in front of you. So flying in GE may look okay on a 2D screen with no tracking but when you use TrackIR or VR it doesn't look too good.
I do like GE VR btw: no mistake about that. And it would be totally awesome if it could be made to work together with AFS2. But then REALLY work together, with cockpit and all. It sure looks better than what we have now (at a reasonable altitude, that is). Slowly 'flying' above cities in GE VR beats every single flightsim out there, even Orbx addons. The amount of detail is mind blowing. So real! Well, from 4500 ft high or so.
I'd be happy already if Google added a flightsim options as they had in older versions of GE.
I'd be happy already if Google added a flightsim options as they had in older versions of GE.
The desktop version of Google Earth is still available, and it includes the Flight Simulator.
The desktop version of Google Earth is still available, and it includes the Flight Simulator.
Yes, but once you have used the Rift with GE VR the regular desktop version doesn't cut it anymore.