Friday 2010-10-01 Dev. update and Discussion

[winny]

Btw Philip, I wasn't calling you rude earlier. You're not! (just to be clear)

[philip.ed]

OK, thankyou

I hate having to split hairs. All I'm saying is just let me be me. I love these updates that Oleg posts as they are all coming together to show me the sim I dreamed of flying when I was a kit. CFS1 answered that prayer, then Fighter Squadron, then CFS2, then Il-2, then BoB2 and now this.



I understand I must sound like an old record, as I have mentioned the clouds a number of times, but Oleg seemed to be replying quite a lot so I thought he may decide to answer the question

[ATAG_Dutch]

Good Grief.
Is anyone prepared to have a sensible discussion at all?

[philip.ed]

Do you take 2 sugars with that?

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Do you take 2 sugars with that?

Usually just the one, but I've got to go to work for a couple of hours, so I'll catch up with the latest episode of 'Soap' about six-ish.

[philip.ed]

Fair enough then.

I wonder how DX-11 could affect clouds/terrain.

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Fair enough then.

I wonder how DX-11 could affect clouds/terrain.

Most probably not at all, as textures usually don't care much what DirectX version they're rendered with. DX11 could provide some performance improvements that would allow increasing the view distance of landscape objects (vegatation, buildings) which would certainly improve the appearance. Otherwise, as someone has already mentioned, increasing the texture filtering setting will make a major difference (and the fact that it's set so low is a clear indication of detail settings used).

Otherwise DirectX 11 should primarily help with smaller details like shadow quality. It will not provide a completely different look to the environment unless Oleg has decided to code a completely separate 3D engine for DX11.

[winny]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Good Grief.
Is anyone prepared to have a sensible discussion at all?

Ok.. here's my attempt.

2 SoW shots, Saturation and contrast increased. (just to see what's there colour wise)

Originally Posted by winny

Ok.. here's my attempt.

2 SoW shots, Saturation and contrast increased. (just to see what's there colour wise)

Terrain looks a lot better in your shots. Do you have the possibilities to only change the color of a certain part of an image? If so, could you leave the planes colors how they are and change the terrain colors like you have done?

Would look awesome I think.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by winny

Ok.. here's my attempt.

2 SoW shots, Saturation and contrast increased. (just to see what's there colour wise)

Perfect example of how some "problems" doesnt have to be corrected at Oleg&teams end.