Friday 2010-07-02 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[=XIII=Shea]

Again brilliant screenshots oleg,delighted to see that the tire,s can be bursted,will this be so for all planes oleg?

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by =XIII=Shea

Again brilliant screenshots oleg,delighted to see that the tire,s can be bursted,will this be so for all planes oleg?

For all.
It may happens during combat... or during landing by the case.

[DJB]

Wonderful

Thanks.

[Doogerie]

Amazing Shot's Oleg have you finsihed the singel player map's yet and are you still going for a 2010 release? Anyway looks good I am really looking fowerd to it.

[Freycinet]

Real volumetric smoke, it looks fabulous!

- ...But almost looks wrong after I have been getting used to the lovely "cheat" in Il-2, with rotating disks standing in for smoke. Together with the multiple texture layers of dense forests, that was one of the best programming tricks in Il-2, to create a believable world with the few computing resources we had available in 2001.

I wonder which programming tricks there will be in SoW:BoB to create a believable world. There will be many and they'll be very clever I think!

[zauii]

Awesome screenshots Oleg, don't know if i can keep my sanity if the game doesn't come out this year .

A question, for first person view, when getting an oil leak will we see oil spray up on the windsheild or will it be more like a splash-decale like in IL2?

Anyway great work, can't wait.

[F19_lacrits]

Very very nice!!!
Flak puffs are impressive in their detail and irregularity. The water looks like it's from a camera shot.

On the Sunderland flying boat, the second engine counting from the left.. Is the exhaust slightly off it's alignment with the engine? Compare to the other three engines with their exhausts and smoke trails.

These friday screen shot teasers are getting better and better.. It's the happening of the week!

[philip.ed]

The damage smoke is all wrong! Smoke that thick would rarely come out of an aircraft, and TBH the texture can clearly be seen to be repeated. I know this is all WIP, but my friend Holy-Grail has hundreds (maybe even thousands) of clips of guncam footage, and smoke this thick rarely comes out of an aircraft.
It should be a lot 'thinner', as the smoke shown is more in-keeping with the kind of smoke from a fuel dump or something like that.

Despite this though the rest of it is just awesome. But this smoke just reminds me of WoP, and it just looks dreadful in my opinion. I know that the MODS may be a taboo subject, but really there is a lot to take from what's been done regarding the effects in the sim

Please don't take this comment as being hugely negative, as it is only one aspect of the sim..

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by F19_lacrits

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On the Sunderland flying boat, the second engine counting from the left.. Is the exhaust slightly off it's alignment with the engine? Compare to the other three engines with their exhausts and smoke trails....

The exhausts are shown exactly this way in this photo.
The caption is - "An early production Sunderland I".

Screenshot.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by GOA_Potenz

WoW exploded tire on stukas!!! am i right???

Right, but this isn't finished effect visually. I simply forgot to remove this shot...