Friday 2010-10-01 Dev. update and Discussion

[Tone71]

Originally Posted by holdenbj

Are those first set of screen shots over the Isle of Wight , south coast of UK? The southern point cliffs are a little too severe, other than that the topology/terrain is just perfect. Needs the light houses are St Catherine's and the Needles too

All things considered, I don't think it looks too bad:



Sorry for the small pic, best I could find! This is St.Catherine's on the Isle of Wight; you can just make out how steep it really is and the 'double step' up from the sea.

[Romanator21]

For starters, cliffs erode, and sometimes rather quickly. Today's landscape isn't going to match 1940's landscape 100%.

3rd set, shot 2 and 5. It's faintly clear here

Allow me to respectfully disagree with you here and say that there is nothing out of the ordinary with these clouds, and in fact they are quite realistic as I see these types quite often. I have also flown very close to clouds (but not in them as I'm not IFR certified). Theses are already rather flat in appearance, but you shouldn't expect to see table-tops except for under certain conditions.

And others have a double standard. The Hurricane pilot size is not to be mentioned ‘on peril of death’, but the leaf colour, tree trunk sizes, road widths, tracer appearance, colour of the tires (just kidding) and who knows what other details, are ok to criticize…??

Tracer color, leaf color, etc are subjective based on our experiences and monitor calibrations. Pilot size is scaled in the 3D engine along with every other object. It's impossible to make a pilot which is shorter than you scale it to be. If it's 175cm, it's 175cm, no speculation necessary.

[bf-110]

B.R.20...Magnifico!!!!

[He111]

Excellent work! but did i see an italian fighter attacking a wimpy from behind?? .. not the best tactics, maybe an inexperienced pilot?

My $100 is burning a hole in my pocket!

He 111.

[Chivas]

The Terrain and Clouds are looking really good in todays screenshots. I'm ecstatic that the developers didn't go the route of some IL-2 map modders who went with satellite photographs to develop their terrain. Satellite photo realistic terrain looks decent at high altitude, but its total crap when flying at lower altitudes.. SOW terrain can be steadily improved upon in future updates, while satellite terrain will always look like crap.

[major_setback]

Nicest clouds we've seen yet!

Look at the bullet/canon damage in screen shot number 4 and then compare it to this, something has gone very wrong here IMHO. The damage in screenshot no: 4 looks like a black bitmap splodge over the top of the skin.

[Ctrl E]

Looks awesome to me 0leg. Can't wait to play this baby.

[Bearcat]

I have a question about the damage model.. I know that leaks and such will be modeled... and I expect them to be well done.. but in the case of say an oil leak.. as in I am shooting a bandit.. I hit his engine and he starts to spew oil... or even if I get hit and I spew oil.. those leaks should only last for a limited duration and shortly after they stop one would expect the engine to seize up correct? I am also thinking that whatever the effect is it will be animated... yes?

[Jimko]

Originally Posted by Romanator21

Tracer color, leaf color, etc are subjective based on our experiences and monitor calibrations. Pilot size is scaled in the 3D engine along with every other object. It's impossible to make a pilot which is shorter than you scale it to be. If it's 175cm, it's 175cm, no speculation necessary.

Ahh..and so you are saying that road width, tree trunk size, and all other sizes are not scaled like the pilot size or in your words "every other object"?

Strangely, some others noticed a discrepency as well, when it came to pilot size...

Nevertheless, all opinions and observations should be accepted without malice which was more to the point of my post.

Cheers!