MSFS20 Global AI Ship Traffic FSX, P3D and MSFS2020

[Lagaffe]

Hi Henrik,

The DCNS Hydroptere is almost ready. I still have one or two days of work to do before I send it to you. I still need to work on two textures map (the ship's hull and floats - I don't forget the French flag).
The boat is animated : it floats at rest and rises when it gains speed. For the sail, it is in the axis of the boat at rest and turns at 45° when it moves forward.

An idea, it must be possible to add a sailor man in yellow clothes behind the helm of the sailboats, it would be more real.

For the fireworks, I'll start as soon as the boat is finished

 

[KL791]

Finally I am back in Europe. Just in time for the Ocean Race arrival to my hometown Aarhus. All the IMOCAs and VOR65 racers are now include in GAIST and to day with the Beta of the Real Time version it was possible to follow the In-Port Race live in the simulator - here a very short clip from the event:

And some screenies...

We are still pending feedback from Fleetmon on how to continue, but the Beta works nicely

 

[Marc L]

AMAZING !!!!! imaging following their arrival is real time on MSFS with a Helicopter!

Fun fact am just about to reach the finish line on SailAway on my end haha (took me almost 14 days, I suck at sailing haha, its my 2nd race tho, still beginner)

 

[KL791]

We are still stuck with our datasupplier Fleetmon after they were acquired by Kpler, we will however soon release a new version of the traditional version eg. with updated ship models; animated sail boats; and a bunch of new models - all the new ships presented since release of V3 6 months ago. We continue in touch with Fleetmon and hope we will find a solution. We do have some alternatives but nothing as "elegant" and simple as what we have developed with Fleetmon, which is a truely global coverage in one simple addon.

I shared the Beta with a friend who is working as an officer on a large cargo ship and a simulator fan to get his impressions on how close or far we are from something realistic. You can see the video he did here in his youtube channel:

 

[Marc L]

HAHAHAHA What were the Odds man!!!! "SkyLane" heh? I use that name online too ( Twitch/YouTube/Discord) xD

Amazing video, I really love how you can even se details like Pilot Boats operations!

 

[SkyLane]

HAHAHAHA What were the Odds man!!!! "SkyLane" heh? I use that name online too ( Twitch/YouTube/Discord) xD

Amazing video, I really love how you can even se details like Pilot Boats operations!

Amazing haha I was checking everywhere before making the channel.

We have real time comparison coming up. I don’t know if I will post literally every video so consider subscribing if you like to see them all. Thank you.

 

[Marc L]

Amazing haha I was checking everywhere before making the channel.

Hi SkyLane, I'm SkyLane, nice to meet you , no problems dont worry, been using that name since 2017 and I know there are several "SkyLane" channels on YT already so just keep that names, no problems on my end

I love to see your Real Life comparison! you flew the Plane next to the ship you were on! but did you saw that plane when you were on the ship?

 

[SkyLane]

Hi SkyLane, I'm SkyLane, nice to meet you , no problems dont worry, been using that name since 2017 and I know there are several "SkyLane" channels on YT already so just keep that names, no problems on my end

I love to see your Real Life comparison! you flew the Plane next to the ship you were on! but did you saw that plane when you were on the ship?

Hi SkyLane haha
Thank you very much

Yep that’s right, I’m very impressed with the accuracy, I know it use real live data but still haha.

No the Cessna was not there haha, would be something.

 

[SkyLane]

Hello everyone,

The new video is online with real life GoPro footage!! I have a separate playlist regarding the Global AI ship traffic.

There is more coming up, this will be less focused on the AI traffic, so I won’t spam the forum here with all these videos. If you are interested I advise you to subscribe.

Happy flying!

-Bram
SkyLane

 

[Marc L]

Ohh actually you were flying at the same times on the Ship? Thats Cool Mannn :O

 

[SkyLane]

Ohh actually you were flying at the same times on the Ship? Thats Cool Mannn :O

Yes that’s correct. I’m planning to do more like this.

 

[Marc L]

Yes that’s correct. I’m planning to do more like this.

Oh yes please do

 

[Lagaffe]

The hydroptere is ready for use: I send you by MP.
Do you want the blender file ?

 

[SkyLane]

Oh yes please do

I will be on my holiday for a few weeks and keep recording live traffic videos, after that I’ll continue with making the GoPro recordings too.

 

[KL791]

The hydroptere is ready for use: I send you by MP.
Do you want the blender file ?

Our first hydroptere in the sim thanks to Lagaffe More info on the real life hydroptere capable of reaching almost 100 km/h here ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroptere

 

[Marc L]

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Our first hydroptere in the sim thanks to Lagaffe For more info on the real life hydroptere capable of reaching almost 100 km/h here ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroptere

Good job! but you know my question:

Does it "fly"?

 

[Hans B]

Looking really fine !

 

[Lagaffe]

Marc_L said
Does it "fly"?

It's animated to lift a few metres above the sea when the speed is above 2 (mile/h) but I think that this is not take in account by the simu (an AI is'nt managed as a simobjets, perhaps).
I have try to use different values for this parameter in the sim.CFG:

[contact_points]
always_use_avg_surface=1 //always use the average surface elevation

1 or 0 make the same thing.

 

[ravenn22]

well, there's a twist...

 

[Marc L]

well, there's a twist...

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Yes, but will it be All real ships models or Generic models (like FSX, 1 takers model, 1 ferry model, 1 container model, 2 cruise ship model)?

Same question goes to Accurate live traffic (Generic fictional airlines or All Aircraft types + real airlines)


Beside that, I'm hyped for MSFS24