Friday 2010-02-25 Development update:Interview by Grégory Lemasson/Discussion Thread

[wilky210]

Hi Oleg! I'm not sure if this has been asked (110% sure it probably has) But how will tracers look? Just like IL-2?

I always thought B-17II had the most realistic looking tracers compared to gun-camera footage.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by wilky210

Hi Oleg! I'm not sure if this has been asked (110% sure it probably has) But how will tracers look? Just like IL-2?

I always thought B-17II had the most realistic looking tracers compared to gun-camera footage.

B17II had one of the most unrealistic Z-looking tracers.

Vibration of the camera with corresponding frequency to the low frame rate(film speed) of camera was a result of Z-looking tracers in some films.
Developers of B-17II didn't research well...

The eye see other than that picture in reality.

In Il-2 we used colors of tracers found in the documents for exact shells and bullets used in each modelled weapon. So in reality the tracers in Il-2 maybe some time too bright at day light, but anyway was the most realistic.

[Qpassa]

Dear Oleg:
I have asked before and I think that you havent answer
Is going to be delivered the simulator in Spanish?
Thanks,keep working at this level ^^

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Qpassa

Dear Oleg:
I have asked before and I think that you havent answer
Is going to be delivered the simulator in Spanish?
Thanks,keep working at this level ^^

Sorry, I don't think so. However anything may happens.

[DJB]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Sorry, I don't think so. However anything may happens.

Maybe a simple tool to make possible to translate the whole text?
Can be two columns style, left column with text in english and right column to enter wanted translation...

Thank you very much Oleg, for maintain contact with users.

Sorry for my bad english, but I hope you can understand me.

[Caveman]

Oleg: Can you comment on Buttkicker support for SOW? It works decently in IL-2, but it's a bit "digital"... Wondering if the sound code programmers will pay special attention to this device to smooth out the transitions from on to off in the low frequency range it's designed to operate in...

Using a Buttkicker for sound augmentation is analogous to using a Track IR for view augmentation... It's a big improvement.

Can you comment?

[PilotError]

Originally Posted by caveman

oleg: Can you comment on buttkicker support for sow. It works decently in il-2 but it's a bit "digital"... Wondering if the sound code will pay special attention to this device to smooth out the transitions from on to off in the low frequency range it's designed to operate in...

Using a buttkicker for sound augmentation is analogous to using a track ir for view augmentation... It's a big improvement.

Can you comment?

+1

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Caveman

Oleg: Can you comment on Buttkicker support for SOW? It works decently in IL-2, but it's a bit "digital"... Wondering if the sound code programmers will pay special attention to this device to smooth out the transitions from on to off in the low frequency range it's designed to operate in...

Using a Buttkicker for sound augmentation is analogous to using a Track IR for view augmentation... It's a big improvement.

Can you comment?

It is really something like subwoofer which instead of sound wave distribute the floor/chair wave.... by other words sound wave trasmitts into mechanical vibartion ... It is working exactly like subwoofer in terms of connection to sound card or home theather. Digital sound? It is only depending of this device. No needs any special support of such device. Its a toy.

You may place several such devices and tune it for different frequency of sound range... then it will shake you from guns by one device, or from engine by other device. Our by both in case of shell hit...

It is very simple device in terms of engineering.

[hugso]

Originally Posted by Caveman

Oleg: Can you comment on Buttkicker support for SOW? It works decently in IL-2, but it's a bit "digital"... Wondering if the sound code programmers will pay special attention to this device to smooth out the transitions from on to off in the low frequency range it's designed to operate in...

Using a Buttkicker for sound augmentation is analogous to using a Track IR for view augmentation... It's a big improvement.

Can you comment?

Just come across this post. I very much agree that vibrations from bass shakers enormously increases immersion. My first mod to my IL2 set-up was to simply to feed audio into my seat. Good, and well worth doing, but what made it much better was to feed in FFB signal to feel bumps and thumps on landing and taxiing and vibrations when entering stall and when flying with gear down etc. This was pretty complicated, involving opening up joystick and filtering signal from motors. This would be enormously simpler if the FFB vibration signal was available as an audio signal, maybe through DeviceLink. This would be fed directly into an amplifier without any need for Buttkicker (which I have to say I have not tried). I would imagine it would be very simple to implement in IL2.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by DJB

Maybe a simple tool to make possible to translate the whole text?
Can be two columns style, left column with text in english and right column to enter wanted translation...

Thank you very much Oleg, for maintain contact with users.

Sorry for my bad english, but I hope you can understand me.

I think we will have totally open texts in separate folders. Maybe not totally, but many. Anyone will be able to translate it.