Realistic Clouds?

[louisv]

FSX clouds are 2D, they are nice from afar, but in a military flght SIM, you need to use the clouds to hide, etc...And that is impossible with FSX as there is no way for two computers to share the clouds because of non-existence in 3D.

There are clouds like these (2D) in CloD, the far away clouds (last patch or next patch ???).

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by Formula88

Clod thinks all clouds are cold enough to cause icing regardless of air temperature though there is no way I know of to confirm OAT in Clod.

Welcome in the Siberian's Normandy skies !

Originally Posted by Formula88

Payware add-ons for Clod is a brilliant idea and,

No !!! Let those guys out of the door. If they wanna makes money then ice cream is a good business opportunity.
If they hve any good idea that devs are unable to reach then why not makes a deal directly with 1c ?

Otherwise ... well, I tell you abt ice creams.

Originally Posted by Formula88

I have easily over 1000 USD in FSX add-ons so I dont mind spending the extra cash to get quality add-ons.

Good for you. But (my guess) as the Average player might be a teenager or one in his low twenties, 45$ is already a descent amount of money for a video game. There is no way to replicate the RoF business model ( a shame IMHO) wihout shortening the live of this sim to a mere 2 or 3 years. Personally I don't want to see those Tornado's 0/400 or Typhon's Camels with EGO sensors ON.

Originally Posted by Formula88

To those that say payware is the wrong direction for Clod to go, you are either too poor to afford those add-ons or are just plain blind to the fact that opening up Clod to the add-ons devs would only increase exposure and sales thereby making the sim more enjoyable for all of us.

You really need to fresh up your mind... I told you Ice cream is a good business opportunity

Originally Posted by Formula88

I have faith this m will become great with only 1C working on it, but as I said, letting aftermarket companies have their shot with it cant hurt anything.

Is that a spam ?

[Blackdog_kt]

Well, it's just a matter of opinion, he's simply disagreeing with you


Honestly, if it was up to me i would do a bit of both. I would like having a 3rd party industry around CoD to give it exposure, but i'd limit that to single player content.
What i wouldn't support is a situation where 3rd party payware becomes a standard for online gameplay.
You might have a 1000 dollars in add-ons, but the majority won't and if it becomes necessary to have as much as half that before going online, then the online aspect will gradually wither and die. The reason FSX flourishes is that add-ons are completely optional and up to the player

So, i would mix a bit of what both you and Tomcat are saying so that the biggest amount of people have the most amount of options available to them. Otherwise we just end up ostracizing one part of the community in favor of another and things go downhill.

P.S. As for the clouds, the default FSX clouds are 3D. The REX clouds are 2D photos

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Well, it's just a matter of opinion, he's simply disagreeing with you


Honestly, if it was up to me i would do a bit of both. I would like having a 3rd party industry around CoD to give it exposure, but i'd limit that to single player content.
What i wouldn't support is a situation where 3rd party payware becomes a standard for online gameplay.
You might have a 1000 dollars in add-ons, but the majority won't and if it becomes necessary to have as much as half that before going online, then the online aspect will gradually wither and die. The reason FSX flourishes is that add-ons are completely optional and up to the player

So, i would mix a bit of what both you and Tomcat are saying so that the biggest amount of people have the most amount of options available to them. Otherwise we just end up ostracizing one part of the community in favor of another and things go downhill.

P.S. As for the clouds, the default FSX clouds are 3D. The REX clouds are 2D photos

I just watched the video on the REX site, I noticed that in the whole video it never showed the plane flying into the heavy clouds, also need to take account of the lack of a realistic FM and DM in FSX which leaves more cpu cycles for other things, just give CoD time and I'm sure they will get most of the goodies working, just as was done with ROF, although ROF has payware, the sims themselves barely cost more than 1 FSX add on so we should appreciate the work that has been done with a lot less dollars and a lot less cost for the buyer.