Friday 2010-10-08 Dev. update and Discussion

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Originally Posted by Hecke

It looks awesome.

What do you think about the runway in this picture?
Is that the way runways looked like?

For me the runway looks blurred and like a texture of an old game. Actually it looks the exact same like in IL-2.

Notice the tire track/rut in the surface of the runway? While I have not taken the time to examine grass runways in IL-2, I don't recall seeing ruts. Maybe they are there, maybe they are not. Maybe in SoW tires leave tracks in grass, maybe not.

I just did a little research on how grass runways were maintained with very little luck. It appears that the grass was mowed somehow and kept shorter than the rest of the airfield. I would also suspect that the grass/dirt was "tamped" with some sort of roller to compact the soil (just a guess). It also appears that some chemicals were used to retard but not eliminate grass growth.

So how exactly would the short grass be portrayed in a computer program? If it was somehow mechanically "laid over" (like with a roller), how should that be portrayed? What about all the ruts from landing on wet ground?

And is it really that important? .

(BTW, the grass runway maintenance thing is bothering me now....I must know how those runways were built and maintained lol.)

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