:grin: That must have taken ages.
It's a great site for looking at the pictures. I favourited it the minute I got linked to it.

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Oleg Moddox's News...is where I got the old ones


http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=2040

Ah, I see what you mean. Foo'bar's site really is the dogs. As far as I can see, he has every-SoW picture ever posted there, and some shots that I'd never seen posted before too.

Just thought I'd post this.. Same pic but darker.

http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...W/sow7copy.jpg

Again, I'm not trying to out-do anyone but I've a few of these that I already did. Just shows what you pointed out.

Looks quite nice Winny, could job. Would I be alone in saying the clouds could do with a bit more texture? maybe if the 'cauliflower' top-effect of the cumulus clouds could be a bit more defined?

http://images.usatoday.com/weather/p...ds/cumulus.jpg

Just an example, these clouds don't best match the ones shown in Oleg's but the representation is clear.

You might have a point, the problem with clouds is they are just so, er.. different. I wouldn't like to say one way or another about the screenshot because I have no idea what the weather is like generally.

I just hope we get lots of variation from thin and wispy to thick and fluffy!

I live in the UK so I'm sick of clouds. Can we discuss something else please?

Hood

ps nice update, can't wait!

:D Certainly sir.
The weather looks nice today.

I agree with some of your points, although not 100%, and i can see where you're coming from. What makes the two of you similiar in a lot of ways is that Tree is coming off like a backseat-developer and you are coming off like a backseat-moderator. Your winding him up only serves to aggravate things further and get others sucked into your vendetta's debate (just like i'm doing right now) which, for the purposes of SoW, is largely irrelevant and useless to most of the people on this forum. Both you and him make some good points and some noise, like we all do, but when it's the two of you together you both only make noise and nothing else, that's all.

You can't banish him to Alpha Centauri and you can't force him to change his mind, put him on ignore if it vexes you so much and let the moderators deal with it if it needs to be dealt with. It's Oleg's forum after all and i doubt he needs "virtual bodyguards", you think he's so defenceless that he couldn't ask a moderator to ban a few people if he wanted to? ;)


Back on topic, i think we finally managed to come to a bit of an agreement on some things after all this arguing (see, not everything is negative after all). Instead of saying "the terrain is gorgeous" or "the terrain is drawn by a child", we can now pinpoint the strong and weak points. It's very detailed topography-wise with a big draw distance, but not shown with high-res textures which makes the trees stand out too much due to the detail mismatch, plus the varying detail settings applied make it hard to judge it from different altitudes. Amazing it took so many people so long to reach such a simple conclusion, but like a folk saying goes in my country "where a lot of roosters crow, it takes longer for the sun to rise" :grin:

As for the clouds, you guys make the mistake of focusing only on cumulus ones. There's several different types with more subtypes and even more combinations among them and if you can "read" them, it can tell you things about the air flow in the area.

The only thing cumulus tells you is that there's rising air nearby, mostly thermals in which gliders can fly. And for the record, there are infact clouds with a rounded bottom if you know where to look for them ;)

Right on, I come here to discuss the sim and aircraft, I get the sense that some folks on here should take a break from this forum and wait until the sim comes out.