I think they both look great.

Yes they do.

And the rof pic was a random one from the web

Looks like a fairly early version with low landscape settings. It looks significantly different now, but still needs some clod style bumps maps to give a better feeling of depth.

Well the graphics are global over all maps, they have to perform well on the largest, so you end up with the same thing for the smallest. If they only had small maps that would be a different story.

If it makes anyone feel better, Dynamic weather in DCS games is a resource hog as well, and a real knock on FPS.

Great weather effects in the original post. The water over canopy seems a bit overdone but still pretty good. What stood out most for me was the smoke and fire from the burning buildings. Most realistic smoke I've seen in a flight sim. It doesn't just rise straight up from the fire but appears to be roiling as it goes up. Also isn't a uniform thickness and has patches of thick smoke breaking away from the column. Very nice.

ROF looks much better on my PC than that pic, but I still don't find the terrain believable. Although the latest ROF video of the float plane taking off and landing on water is amazing. COD terrain is OK, but it should get much better, when the community can fine tune it, and replace some of the trees with hedgerows etc.

Is an early version with low setting. However i agree about the bumps mapping feature for RoF.

About CoD and the weather-landscape problem, we can only hope in the sequel and yes.....in the RoF Channel.

The CoD's Channel with those textures and without weather is no more no less than nothing. Terrible if not horrible.

stop compare ROF and CLOD.

it is two different sim. not the same era.

personally i find that ROF is not better than CLOD but i don't care about WW1 sim... then i don't care ROF.

please people here...speak about same sims to compare... take il2, CLOD, BOB. but not ROF.

In terms of graphics you can compare them.

In terms of gameplay they are different due to there settings.