Friday 2010-07-23 Dev. update and Discussions

[proton45]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Two words chum; fan-boys It's best to be honest and compliment than suck-up and compliment

...and in the end it doesn't really matter, after everything is said and done they will still make the game that they want to make.

[Viikate]

Originally Posted by GOA_Potenz

il2 code is a mess!

You haven't seen a single row of the real IL-2 source code with comments, clear variable names, clear constant names instead of some random numbers, etc... You've only seen decompiled code which looses much of the info that is important to coder and makes it easy to read & understand. Even something as trivial as bullet caliber value in weapons classes is still complete mystery to modders. Because they can only see the final value, not the formula how it's calculated. So they call the original values wrong and change them.

I find the real source code very clear.

[Viikate]

Originally Posted by Aed

So.. why U still not finished 4.10.. if U have paradize conditions? +)))

Sa
Working for free on your own free time after real job.

[Richie]

This is the video that got my hopes up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMFFQ...eature=related

[daHeld]

Originally Posted by GOA_Potenz

isn't mysterius at all
just it seem that many diferent
progamers work on that code
and you diferent functions from
diferent people

Of course it does look like that. That's because it's the way things are done in a development team. Every coder has his own style, and that's exactly why the code is COMMENTED. Those comments are there so that one coder can carry on from where the last one left off.

@AED

Pleas mind your manners. People wouldn't get angry with you, if you were posting in a more "grown up" way.

[kendo65]

My, my, everyone's feisty this week. Seems to be 3 different arguments going on at once

Entertaining though

[airmalik]

Originally Posted by mark@1C

A question, who can tell me please what are those four shining spots in the first picture?
Reflected light from He-111? Then from the body or the canopy?
I feel a little odd, I mean if it came from the body, the shining spots should be bigger than that have been shown, shouldn't they? Or if it came from the canopy, then where are their bodies? Vanished in the blue sky, because of their camouflage? Or they are just navigation lights? In a daytime in a white colour?
Those four shining spots really look a little odd for me at such a distance in the picture, just like four UFOs...

yeah it's hard to tell if it's tracers in the distance (evenly spaced) or glints off aircraft. I don't think all three planes would glint at the same time so maybe it's tracers.

It'd be cool if you could see occasional glints from distant aircraft if you happen to be looking in the right direction. IRL unless your eye is focused at correct distance air craft in the air are hard to spot. Glints would help greatly in this regard. I'd like it to be an occasional glint rather than a constant glow as in the screenshot though.

[kedrednael]

Originally Posted by mark@1C

A question, who can tell me please what are those four shining spots in the first picture?
Reflected light from He-111? Then from the body or the canopy?
I feel a little odd, I mean if it came from the body, the shining spots should be bigger than that have been shown, shouldn't they? Or if it came from the canopy, then where are their bodies? Vanished in the blue sky, because of their camouflage? Or they are just navigation lights? In a daytime in a white colour?
Those four shining spots really look a little odd for me at such a distance in the picture, just like four UFOs...

the spots are paused tracers

@ Oleg or Luthier

Do the bullet casings seen in the fith image damage other planes when hitting them?