Friday 2010-01-22 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[13th Hsqn Protos]

Do you really think Oleg comes here to hear how great you think he is ?

I mean really ???


He wants FEEDBACK. Good feedback .... even if sometimes he doesn't like it/ or in my case the person giving it.

[TheGrunch]

Oleg or Ilya, could you possibly tell us yet whether you have any inkling of the specifications for the engine regarding 3rd party 3D objects (polycounts, texture size, formats, etc.)? I imagine that would be useful information to bear in mind for a number of people. Will there be import/export tools released with the game or will that be postponed until a while afterwards? Will you provide a guide at some point for the guidelines to creating 3D objects or will you leave the process to trial and error like many game developers do? I realise these are questions that aren't particularly important at the moment, but I'm just curious to be honest, since this is your first foray into making an openly moddable game. I very much appreciated your earlier explanations about 3rd party content being outside the officially sanctioned "locked set" of objects and the ability of users to edit FMs etc. without compromising online play and was just wondering whether you'd care to expand upon them slightly with some ballpark figures.

[RAF74_Winger]

It appears that I have been misunderstood. Evidently my prose needs improvement.

I wrote:

you do get 'bumps' with turbulence and convective action, but they are of large amplitude

That is; the total movement is too small, I've occasionally bumped my head on the canopy due to not tightening the harness sufficiently.

and very low frequency

The shaking shown is too rapid, it should be spaced out more.

I also agree with some of the statements made here, for instance:

Originally Posted by SlipBall

You really don't feel much from the controls when its turbulent

Very true, the most you will get from the stick is some pre-stall vibration and the tightening of the controls as speed increases. Turbulence is felt through your backside (or your head, in my case).

In regard to FFB I'd be more interested in the real characteristics of the aircraft, like the spitfire's reversal of stick force gradient as one approaches the stall, the heavy force needed on the rudder to keep the 109 in balance at cruise speed.

Have to reply to this though:

Originally Posted by Baron

Im pretty sure there isnt a singel person in theese boards that have done what is shown in that Spit vid.

100% sure infact.

100% wrong as it happens, though I'll admit that I haven't done it in a Spitfire yet.

W.