Buildings & Clouds Q&A

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That’s the spirit IF team! Thanks for answering those questions, i think we all had them. Looking forward to the release!

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I wonder if contrails are coming at any point

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I am keeping my highest hopes that it comes out this year it would be amazing

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Wouldn’t it be better to move IF to PC too? A PC would allow for a lot of new features and improvements.

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I don’t know how the buildings will work with what we do at IFAET, but I do know the only reason this area isn’t added, is because the imagery of the completed concourse isn’t available yet.

We will not be moving to PC

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What few airports do y’all hope to have buildings?

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I am "too’’ excited

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That’s a great question, I would say that most capitals and important cities like Lax, SΓ£o Paulo, Madrid etc

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Great! I don’t want to spend money for a new PC.

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Airport buildings are a mix of procedurally generated and handcrafted models. We are building tools to make it easy to create complex airports quickly but they will remain internal for now. We use OpenStreetMap data to get an initial building footprint to start from. Objects are placed by hand and we will provide more information on this in a future post.

I’d work very hard to perfection should IF team allow community help to edit the buildings,
because I’d hate to see my airport by the Kuta beach that’s supposed to look like this:


…being represented otherwise with generic repetitive blue-colored blocks, that’d be soul-less lol :)

(Pic source) [spoiler]https://www.indonesia.travel/gb/en/destinations/bali-nusa-tenggara/denpasar/bali-ngurah-rai-airport[/spoiler]

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These innovations sound great! But I have another question about that. You write that the buildings are installed individually by the developers. In version one, there will be few airports that have the buildings, but how do you plan that for the future, will every airport in the world have buildings?

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I really hope the new Beijing Daxing airport is one of the first released 🀞

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Will keflavik and JFK be 1st?!

I would like buildings added to KDFW, KATL, EGLL, KLAX, KSFO, KJFK, and KORD.

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The only airport we are currently making known is KSFO. We do not have any more information at this time to share on this.

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Ok thanks! Can’t wait for the update.

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Thank you for this interesting article and Q&A @jasonrosewell ! ;)

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Thank you for the article @jasonrosewell

Will there be rain graphics, and more weather settings in the future?

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