Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

[Sutts]

Couple of questions if I may Oleg....

Will the waves move in the direction of the prevailing wind and will house smoke react to the wind too?

I love the densely populated towns you've shown us but I can't understand how it is possible with today's technology to model London in such a way. There are literally hundreds of thousands of homes spread over a huge area....
"Greater London stretched for a twenty-mile radius from Charing Cross".

Will you be making London smaller or less populated as you move away from the centre? Perhaps the suburbs will be a texture only??? Would be nice to know what we can expect.

Thanks

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sutts

Will you be making London smaller or less populated as you move away from the centre? Perhaps the suburbs will be a texture only??? Would be nice to know what we can expect.

Thanks

Do you remember the game "Driver"?
They had a (quite small one) London map too.
And they also wanted to get it right.

They spent 1year and $1.000.000(or was it £?) just to get pictures for the textures of the houses along the road.

I jjust mention this so people understand the dimension of such a task.

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

Good question, I've never heard anything until now about the energy model : has it be improved from Il-2, or said in another way will the energy fighters be able to be used in the sim as they were in real life against turn-and-burn fighters ?

So what you say is, energy fighters can't be used against TnB fighters real-life like in IL2?

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

and that the game would be cinematic.

Ever thought about that your vision of cinematic is not coherent with his?

Strike commander for instance was also cinematic.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Sutts

Couple of questions if I may Oleg....

Will the waves move in the direction of the prevailing wind and will house smoke react to the wind too?

I love the densely populated towns you've shown us but I can't understand how it is possible with today's technology to model London in such a way. There are literally hundreds of thousands of homes spread over a huge area....
"Greater London stretched for a twenty-mile radius from Charing Cross".

Will you be making London smaller or less populated as you move away from the centre? Perhaps the suburbs will be a texture only??? Would be nice to know what we can expect.

Thanks

No textures only.
The size of London is the same as it was in 1940

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

No textures only.
The size of London is the same as it was in 1940

Thanks for the quick reply Oleg! Sorry but just to be sure.....

Do you mean there will be no "texture only" areas?
If so then that would be quite an achievment.

Thanks

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Sutts

Thanks for the quick reply Oleg! Sorry but just to be sure.....

Do you mean there will be no "texture only" areas?

Thanks

Yes I mean exatly what you like to know - no simple textures shown the city. No drawn cars by camera from above on the roads, no 2000 year sattelite maps with all its infrastructure drawn like it wasn't in 1940.....

Maybbe we will miss some historical objects, but I think creative users will make it exactly like it was in real life... read my posts above

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Yes I mean exatly what you like to know - no simple textures shown the city. No drawn cars by camera from above on the roads, no 2000 year sattelite maps with all its infrastructure drawn like it wasn't in 1940.....

Maybbe we will miss some historical objects, but I think creative users will make it exactly like it was in real life... read my posts above

Wow, this is great news Oleg. You guys are incredible.

[PeterPanPan]

Hi Oleg, thanks for the great update.

Not sure if this has been asked, but please can we have the option to display units in feet or metres? This would be in the speedbar, AI speech, gun convergence etc. In IL2, we are fixed with metres only?

Also, with the speech, it would be great if the term 'angels' was used, as it was in 1940 e.g. "climb to angels 10" = "climb to 10,000 feet"

Cheers

PPanPan

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

Hi Oleg, thanks for the great update.

1. Not sure if this has been asked, but please can we have the option to display units in feet or metres? This would be in the speedbar, AI speech, gun convergence etc. In IL2, we are fixed with metres only?

2. Also, with the speech, it would be great if the term 'angels' was used, as it was in 1940 e.g. "climb to angels 10" = "climb to 10,000 feet"

Cheers

PPanPan

1. Should be done. It was in plan and my personal request in the past. Was repeating this request about month or sop ago. Will check later.

2. I gave all the terms in the past. what is used I didn't check yet for all features. I'm busys with overal picture and checking planes and other visible bugs.