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Should this article be about the Outerra engine or the company (and their work)?

So currently the first sentence says "Outerra is a Slovakian computer software company best known for its middleware 3D planetary graphics engine, called Outerra engine, in development since 2008"

I'd suggest changing the article so that it's about the engine "Outerra" and not the company with the same name. In implementation it should then say: "The Outerra engine is a middleware 3D planetary graphics engine that is being development by a Slovakian computer software company of the same name since 2008." (or something similar to it).

--Fixuture (talk) 18:49, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Outerra is not a 1:1 Earth

Go to a familiar place with and see yourself, it's like 1:3 or more. Try going to recognizable places like Mont Saint-Michel, Liberty Island or Costantinople and compare the tree size to the land. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.15.71.157 (talk) 04:36, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Outerra influence on Microsoft Flight Simulator

I think that at the time of release it had big potential and some breath-taking achievements, with seamless navigation from space to the single blade of grass in high resolution, clever fractal algorithms to achive a wonderful procedural generation, partial 3d cloud and athmosferic simulation. I half expected Orbiter by Martin Schweiger, Flaming Cliff and Microsoft Flight Simulator X to migrate to the new engine. Outerra was the name of the engine, while Anteworld was the game they released... But I think the true objective was to sell the Engine to everyone. It surely had raised expectations. Still in 2014 someone beloved they could change the open world games:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160331224237/https://www.geek.com/news/outerra-the-seamless-whole-planet-rendering-engine-that-could-change-open-world-games-1584063/

At the end of the day, Outerra was good at giving you something realistic, Microsoft Flight Simulator engine give you the real thing. No fractal calculation from Asobo: only brute force of real data. Luigi Cotocea (talk) 10:14, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]