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The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v3.0 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator. This new version contains many exciting new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Highlights in this release includeintegration of the FGCom voice communications client within the simulator,improved terrain rendering,faster scenery loading,improved usability.This release also coincides with the release of FlightGear World Scenery 2.0 – massively improved scenery data covering the entirety of the planet and incorporating OpenStreetMap roads and detailed terrain information from a variety of sources.
This FlightGear World Scenery was compiled from:- ViewFinderPanoramas elevation model by Jonathan de Ferranti- VMap0 Ed.5 worldwide land cover- CORINE land cover 2006v16 for Europe- Several custom land cover enhancements- The latest airports (2013.10), maintained by Robin Peel of X-Plane- Line data by OpenStreetMap
Out of professional curiosity - why would you think so? (Disclaimer: I'm part of the Flightgear development team)Flightgear is OpenSource, which means that not every aircraft and airport comes with the same quality, but if you use the high-quality planes available for FG and look at well-developed corners of the world, then...I have looked a bit into FSX and compared, and* Flightgear has definitely superior flight dynamics, I found FSX really unrealistic* Terrain texturing is a bit better on FSX, not much though these days* FSX still has a few eye candy features FG doesn't have though* FG does weather and clouds much, much better, likewise lighting in low sun and interplay between lighting and weather is better handled by Flightgear* I guess user-friendliness in terms of configuration etc. is up to force of habitAll in all, my impression was that FSX goes for WOW! effects which are sort of cute, but don't actually happen in real life that often (like plane reflections in the ocean) - FG doesn't do this, reality more often than not looks a bit dull and hazy...Granted, I'm hardly impartial, and fond of tinkering and customizing, so FG was a natural choice for me because you can tinker with basically anything without much ado (it's made to be tinkered with). But I think also in other aspects it's quite competitive.
Attratto dai vostri entusiasti commenti su questo simulatore, ho scaricato la versione 3.0 un pacchetto installer da quasi un GB...
...Una decina di minuti per scaricarlo, ma per installarlo c'è voluta una buona mezz'ora e sì che ho un Quad core i7 da 2,8 GHz con ben 8 Gb di memoria veloce. Quando l'ho aperto ed ho tentato di caricare il primo 777, ho atteso 20 buoni minuti senza che l'aereo si caricasse. Allora ho chiuso e riaperto ed ho caricato un Cessna che è l'unico aereo con il pannello 2D disponibile e c'è voluta una mezz'ora prima di riuscire a vederlo...
...Forse ho sbagliato qualcosa e non ho capito che significa la scritta Scenery downloading che compare mentre si attende a lungo il caricamento dell'aereo. Mi è venuto il dubbio che gli scenari non siano nel programma ma vengano scaricati di volta in volta...
...Lo scenario rimane comunque inferiore sia a FSX che alle foto promozionali di Ripley, non capisco perchè. Forse ogni zona scaricabile ha un livello di dettaglio diverso...