August 6 2011 Development Update

[zxwings]

Originally Posted by albx

do you know how many calculations are needed to do what you say? This is a flight simulator, not a 3DS Max to render photorealistic scenes.

By "if it's possible" at the begnning of my words, I had already indicated that. But sorry for my choice of the term "possible", in stead of which I should have used "practical".

Moreover, do you know that in a simulator not everything in relation to 3D is calculated in an exact 3D manner? The reflections on the glass of the gauges in the cockpit, for example, if I remember correctly, are 2D or something, but are well acceptable, and better than if you don't have them at all. Those darker shadows I mentioned will always be the darker ones in the cockpit - then, like the gauge glass ...