Friday 2010-07-16 Dev. update and Discussions about the update ONLY!

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

But hang on a minute, when people on here were getting excited about the terrain in 'WOP' Oleg stated that we could be sure that the terrain in SOW would be a whole lot better, at this moment in time I am not seeing that, ok maybe in 2 months time when SOW is released it will look a whole lot better.

Yes he "promised" that so I expect a bit more. Hope the ground graphics at the moment ar far away from the final look.

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The SOW engine has been developed not only for a combat flight sim but possibly for CGI generated movies.

Well, I know something about 'CGI generated movies' as you call it, and it won't look like that. You can't match a rendering time of 24-48 hours for a single frame, and you don't want that. SoW terrain looks just fine to me. This is not the small maps of BoP. It looks just fine, if the rest is a real combat flight sim and calculations that go with it, IMO.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by KOM.Nausicaa

Well, I know something about 'CGI generated movies' as you call it, and it won't look like that. You can't match a rendering time of 24-48 hours for a single frame, and you don't want that. SoW terrain looks just fine to me. This is not the small maps of BoP. It looks just fine, if the rest is a real combat flight sim and calculations that go with it, IMO.

Well I don't know anything on how CGI works, but Oleg has mentioned that he hopes to have cinematic graphics and use the SOW engine in the movie business.

[Friendly_flyer]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I am of the opinion that posting the same damage effects will just make us feel that this is the only type of smoke that will come out when an A/C catches fire. Whether this is true we can only guess, but I still would like to see all the different types of damage smoke to prove my current ideas wrong.

We have different smokes for different types of damage in IL2. I would be _extremely_ surprised if the same is not true in SoW:BoB.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The SOW developer has stated many times he must release the sim as soon as possible for financial reasons. He has also stated in the Russian forums he would have liked to delay the release until 2011 to add some features but it won't be possible.

Can anyone get me a link for this statement?

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Urufu_Shinjiro

Can anyone get me a link for this statement?

Here you go:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...3049614/5.html

Link to the original interview:

http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthrea...52383&page=234


Cheers,
Insuber

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Farrel

This is great! I remember the good old days when we were getting teasers about IL-2 and then the Forgotten Battles addon... The excitement of waiting for something as cool is not all bad, I kinda like it sometimes.

I too reacted to the scary look of the flames inside the bomber. It's really an inferno in there.

This is just getting better and better. Also, I think it's great that we get to see other things than the usual BoB planes I.E. Blenheims, Wellingtons and so on.

Big thanks for the update!

I sure remember those days too Cpt. I even remember that droning music they played along with some of the IL-2 2001 previews. The same music that's with the video intro if you have it checked while the game loads.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

But hang on a minute, when people on here were getting excited about the terrain in 'WOP' Oleg stated that we could be sure that the terrain in SOW would be a whole lot better, at this moment in time I am not seeing that, ok maybe in 2 months time when SOW is released it will look a whole lot better.

Just wait ...you'll see


aka Hackl

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by Insuber

Here you go:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...3049614/5.html

Link to the original interview:

http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthrea...52383&page=234


Cheers,
Insuber

Thanks!

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Friendly_flyer

We have different smokes for different types of damage in IL2. I would be _extremely_ surprised if the same is not true in SoW:BoB.

I know, but there is only one type of black-smoke in Il-2 (currently anyway). In SoW, it'd be great if the smoke would fluctuate.