Friday update and duscussions 2011-02-18

[Il2Pongo]

Originally Posted by phoenix1963

+1

In fact, most streams and rivers (most UK rivers would actually qualify as streams in the rest of the world!) are visible from the air ONLY because of the lines of trees and bushes on their banks. I can see how making those continuous lines or bushes and trees compatible with a tiled landscape is hard, so I sympathise with Oleg & his team.

The rather il2ish landscape is perhaps the least satisfactory aspect of CoD at present, great damage & engine modelling, fm sounds great.

Also, some weather that is better than il2 but not fully dynamic is surely possible.

We only can hope that Oleg & team start getting some revenue in that enables improvement.

56RAF_phoenix

I am not sure on the limitations of tiled landscapes, but a line of shrubs or even something green would be way more imersive then the BIG BLUE LINE they currently render when the map says "creek, stream, river, canal"
Even just shutting off 80% of them in the map would be better then where it is.
I hope at least they shut them off at 5000 feet or so. Seeing the bright glare on dozens of "creeks" at once from altitude(like the recent MS screen shot) would be a shame.