Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

[philip.ed]

I stand by my opinion; notice the shadows on the cloud-bottoms. This is lacking in SoW and really adds to the realism. I can see what you mean though; they do look a bit cartoony, but the general shape looks more realistic to me.
It's a mixed bag really. It's just my opinion; SoW has the ground to have awesome clouds, but to me they just look a bit like cotton-balls.

[Hatch]

The spitfire vid of SoW shows some nice clouds.
And it can only have gotten better.

Same goes for the scenery.

Only thing I'm hoping for is some less hard defined edges between buildings and earth.

And some grime so you escape to the clear blue skies with a sigh of relief

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I stand by my opinion; notice the shadows on the cloud-bottoms. This is lacking in SoW and really adds to the realism. I can see what you mean though; they do look a bit cartoony, but the general shape looks more realistic to me.
It's a mixed bag really. It's just my opinion; SoW has the ground to have awesome clouds, but to me they just look a bit like cotton-balls.

I certainly hope SOW doesn't have clouds that look exactly those in the Condor screenshot. That said I'm also certain we will be seeing many different types of clouds some of which could look similar. Clouds shapes can be almost infinite, and the person Oleg dedicated to modeling weather and clouds has his hands full.