Friday 2010-09-24 Dev. update and Discussion

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

He has a good point though. Compared to recent games, the terrain does look quite bad. I've even seen better terrain textures for Il-2 at this altitude. I'm sure it will be fixed and/or changed, but IMO too much work is being put into ground vehicles which are so detailed, I can't imagine giving a toss about how many rivets they have when I fly past at 300MPH. It's great to see this attention to detail, but I think there are other areas that need more work ATM.

Would you say the same about the flight jackets? After all, most people couldn't care less about how correct they are, as long they look reasonably vintage. It's not that you get to see them too often anyway while flying past opponents at 600MPH...

Texture quality aside (AF should still make a major difference even without any further updates), I find the terrain mesh quality amazing, both down low and far away. I don't know any sim which renders such far-away details like the cliffs on the lower edge of image #5 with such quality.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

Would you say the same about the flight jackets? After all, most people couldn't care less about how correct they are, as long they look reasonably vintage. It's not that you get to see them too often anyway while flying past opponents at 600MPH...

Texture quality aside (AF should still make a major difference even without any further updates), I find the terrain mesh quality amazing, both down low and far away. I don't know any sim which renders such far-away details like the cliffs on the lower edge of image #5 with such quality.

Good point, but the pilot is more in shot than ground vehicles. All the same, I can see what you mean Although I'd hate to see a RAF pilot in Luftwaffe kit and vice-versa

[Freycinet]

Since no one else seemed to bother, i'll just say a hearty THANK YOU to Rodolphe for identifying those vehicles! - Much better contribution to this thread than all those "crap this crap that" postings...

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Freycinet

Since no one else seemed to bother, i'll just say a hearty THANK YOU to Rodolphe for identifying those vehicles! - Much better contribution to this thread than all those "crap this crap that" postings...

+1

BTW, the plane making the attack on the Heinkel is a Hurricane. I thought this might be helpful LOL

[BG-09]

Oleg, do the Battle of Britain this way:

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

This is what we need - to die like heroes!
Not to play games!
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[BG-09]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXo-...eature=related

Oleg, please, note how the antena cable of the Ki-43 fluctuates /at 6:48 sec. very clearly visible/ on the wind over the head of the Japanese fighter pilot. Also note that there is no huge flames, when the aircraft is hit, when small caliber machine guns are used...

~Cheers!

[philip.ed]

I posted an excellent late war guncam clip in colour and HG/Jumo supplied a better version. It really is worth a look if you missed it

[Rodolphe]

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Originally Posted by Freycinet

Since no one else seemed to bother, i'll just say a hearty THANK YOU to Rodolphe for identifying those vehicles! - Much better contribution to this thread than all those "crap this crap that" postings...

Originally Posted by major_setback

Thanks very much...I was trying to find out what vehicles they were on the internet, but couldn't find them.

Thank for your support, Chaps !

Originally Posted by major_setback

Wow. It's tiny!

Nice image:

Beaverette Mark III with the larger turret and twin Vickers machine guns.






These tanks are A13 Mark 3, Cruiser Tank Mark 5, later to be known as the "Covenanter" .
This vehicle was plagued with mechanical and cooling problems
that caused the tank to end it's days as a training vehicle - never seeing combat.











Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr



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[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Rodolphe

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Beaverette Mark III with the larger turret and twin Vickers machine guns.


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Your right, I was going to say they were lewis guns with the round magazines and all but there was a Vickers 'K' gun fitted to these cars!

Cheers!