“Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024” animals come from “Zoo Planet”, improve surface analysis and simulate 3 trillion trees

To improve the surface resolution of the immersive flight simulator “Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024”, the development team Asobo Studio revealed that they borrowed all the animals from the famous “Planet Zoo” and even identified 2.8 million objects ( tile), simulating 3 trillion trees to provide a more immersive experience.

“Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024” has been released since November 20. However, due to performance optimization issues, it cannot be played by a large number of Steam players.Attracts a large number of dissatisfied players and criticism. However, players who have successfully avoided the pitfalls of cloud gaming have praised this game for taking their simulation experience to a higher level.

Different from the previous generations of “Microsoft Flight Simulator”, this generation of pilots can get off the plane, walk around and take pictures after landing executive producer Jorg Neumann ago shortPC game from foreign media According to the exclusive interview, the team’s goal is to make the scene experience at least as good as the experience of standard FPS games.

To achieve this goal, the team analyzed satellite data and identified 28,000 slabs, including sand, cobblestone, asphalt, grass, etc., and imported the 100 map data mx 100 m into the system to model one to one compared to the previous work, the surface configuration was improved.

“We know where every bush is, every tree…

For the wildlife section, Asobo Studios turned to Planet Zoo developer Frontier Developments for help. “Zoo Star” was released in November 2019 and is continuously updated to today’s models.

Neumann has a long relationship with the team at Frontier Developments, which worked on titles such as Zoo Tycoon with the help of Microsoft Studios for publishing, and continues to develop multi-platform games in recent years.

So, during the development process of “Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024”, Neumann called his friend Jonny Watts, the CEO of Frontier Developments, “Hey Jonny, I’m developing a new flight simulation game. Can I borrow your animals from “Zoo Star “?” The other group said eagerly. Agree “Sure, why not?”

In this way, “Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024” puts all the animals of “Zoo Star” into the game world, quietly launching “friendly hospitality shows”, which are not not only ensuring the quality of the models and animations, but also saving the need to create development resources from scratch.

“Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024” is currently on sale on PC, Xbox Series S/X and Xbox Game Pass At the time of writing, there are over 4,000 mostly negative reviews on Steam, and it’s off to a very turbulent start there

Since this game is synchronized with the real-time weather system and needs to access game data through the cloud, the development team underestimated the data traffic and caused excessive loading on the server.Currently actively promoting.