Crazy idea - but hear me out… What if there was a software outside of IF that you could take clips of your flight playback and insert it into the software and it would turn it into a MSFS style/quality. I know this is a tough one bc there never been something like that but I think it would be a seriously awesome feature for some players to use. Tell me what you think.
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This is interesting! I think first it would be great if instead of a third-party app doing replay, there should be a third party app for real time!
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Hi, this is something that I have found interesting…
For the past month I have been playing around with combining Infinite Flight’s Live API with Blender, a 3D graphics software. At first, I was focused on abstract traffic visualizations (which I still want to work on) - like this one from LEBL during the last IF48: https://youtu.be/M6p7TOFijNo
But after reading this topic I thought it may be fun to try an attempt something simple of this nature. I setup the environment using free satellite topography and imagery from USGS, instanced basic billboard trees using geometry nodes, attempted to add buildings using OSM (but this was far too many objects - could probably optimize though), and added clouds using a volume object. Blender has a embedded python interpreter, so it’s relativity straightforward to read the aircraft’s coordinates, bank, pitch, heading, and altitude using Connect API, and then tie it to an object’s position + rotation and automatically keyframe it every frame.
I did a quick pattern at KHAF - https://youtu.be/8RPT-mTRW6E
I can record the keyframes in real time, but this took about 6 hours to render on my M2 mac mini.
There is a lot more you could explore with this, particularly I want to try some stylized NPR rendering
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This is absolutely amazing. This could really be an awesome tool for people who know how to use blender. I have a little experience with it but wow this is impressive.
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Even if it’s not 10/10 realism. This is impressive nonetheless. 
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