Friday 2011-01-21 Dev. update and Discussion

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by swiss

Maybe they should add calibration software to the game.

Yes, but then some would need instructions too, a DVD with Oleg showing them how to do it, and then another video, telling them to go out and breathe some fresh air.

[Meusli]

For all you guys, yes you know who you are...

[HanneG]

I have to admit I too am disappointed with what we have been shown.
There seems to have been little or no progress from the first shots in 2004-5 until now. Nice graphics may only be part of the equation but they are what sells a game.

I'm not expecting to see cutting edge rendering techniques in a flightsim, but neither do I think bolted on self-shadowing and slightly higher texture resolution and poly count are going to cut in in 2011. The sky, clouds, the water shaders - everything reeks Il-2 expansion. Of course all these things are fixable. The question is, after nigh a decade of development, why haven't they? And yes, I've read all the stories about car crashes and deserting devs.

Hopefully the rest of the sim, especially the physics part will make up in complexity what the graphics seem to be lacking.

[Wutz]

I think 1c has to install something like this:

Originally Posted by HanneG

I have to admit I too am disappointed with what we have been shown.
There seems to have been little or no progress from the first shots in 2004-5 until now. Nice graphics may only be part of the equation but they are what sells a game.

I'm not expecting to see cutting edge rendering techniques in a flightsim, but neither do I think bolted on self-shadowing and slightly higher texture resolution and poly count are going to cut in in 2011. The sky, clouds, the water shaders - everything reeks Il-2 expansion. Of course all these things are fixable. The question is, after nigh a decade of development, why haven't they? And yes, I've read all the stories about car crashes and deserting devs.

Hopefully the rest of the sim, especially the physics part will make up in complexity what the graphics seem to be lacking.

Really ? Then go back to 2004 screens and show us something that is as good or better than those....

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by kalimba

Really ? Then go back to 2004 screens and show us something that is as good or better than those....

I even don't have shots out of 2004 on my blog... and I thought I would have them all