Friday Update, February 17, 2012

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Pluto

... very impressive ! Maybe you can add some indy cars of the 1940s as
controlable vehicles later on, something like this here:
http://www.carguynation.com/deals/bo...1940sbook.html
then we could do some racing.

I'm all with you on the basic idea, and that sure is a great looking car, but why on earth would we like to have an american Indycar for our BoB setting when the coolest and best looking racing vehicles ever built where done in Europe in the late 30:ies? The silver arrows by Mercedes and Auto Union (Audi these days)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Arrows

A quote from that wikipedia article:

"By 1937, the supercharged engine of a Mercedes-Benz W125 attained an output of 646 hp (475 kW), a figure not exceeded in Grand Prix Racing until the early 1980s, when turbo-charged engines were common in Formula One. The Silver Arrows of Mercedes and Auto Union cars reached speeds of well over 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) in 1937, and well over 400 km/h (249 mph) during land speed record runs."

Imagine sitting in a car like this with 600+ hp over 400km/h...

[Pluto]

... a silver arrow would be nice, hehe, ...

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Pluto

... a silver arrow would be nice, hehe, ...

Yepp - so an SDK where we can do wehicles would be nice as I never would demand that the MG team puts resources on a side quest like this

EDIT: These cars are not irrelevant for BoB as I'm pretty sure Daimler-Benz/Mercedes put the knowlege aquired while developing these beasts into their engines used during the war...

EDIT: And as a fuel for war a result table like the one below from Donnington in 1937 must have annoyed a bunch of brits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Donington_Grand_Prix

A quote from that page that sends chills down my spine...

"Away beyond the woods we heard the approaching scream of a well-tuned E.R.A. and down the winding slope towards us came Raymond Mays. He changed down, braked, skirted round the Hairpin and was gone. "There's the winner," remarked one of my friends. "Knows this course backwards." Half a minute later came the deeper note of a 2.9-litre Maserati, and "B. Bira" (Prince Birabongse of Siam, Mays’ nearest rival and a new star in the racing firmament) shot past us, cornering with that precision which marked him as the master he was. "Or him," said another. We waited again. Then they came. Far away in the distance we heard an angry, deep-throated roaring – as someone once remarked, like hungry lions impatient for the arena. A few moments later, Manfred von Brauchitsch, red helmeted, brought a great, silver projectile snaking down the hill, and close behind, his teammate Rudolf Caracciola, then at the height of his great career. The two cars took the hairpin, von Brauchitsch almost sideways, and rocketed away out of sight with long plumes of rubber smoke trailing from their huge rear tyres, in a deafening crash of sound. The startled Pressmen gazed at each other, awe-struck. "Strewth," gasped one of them, "so that's what they're like!" That was what they were like."

[Insuber]

Q: will we be able to use 100 octane fuel on the race cars? And what about 100 octane fuel for the British destroyers? Priority number 1 be sure ...

[moilami]

Plz make user changeable hairstyles for the Spitfire girl.

In my offline campaign the player will date the Spitfire girl once he manages to get an "ace" status.

They will drive the car together (so goggles are needed for the Spitfire girl) and authentic '40 style hairstyle with either blonde or brunette hair

That is, dynamical colour of hair must be implemented.


Edit: Seriously though, consider making female models for VVS pilots. AFAIK females were doing combat flight missions in WW2.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by moilami

Plz make user changeable hairstyles for the Spitfire girl.

In my offline campaign the player will date the Spitfire girl once he manages to get an "ace" status.

They will drive the car together (so goggles are needed for the Spitfire girl) and authentic '40 style hairstyle with either blonde or brunette hair

That is, dynamical colour of hair must be implemented.


Edit: Seriously though, consider making female models for VVS pilots. AFAIK females were doing combat flight missions in WW2.

They will get the colour of the lipstick wrong and somebody will complain about it...

[flyingblind]

Excellent update. I am in the game to fly fighters so I doubt if I will be driving tanks too much although I am sure I will give it a go. But the more complex, full and real the world I am flying in the better. So long as I don't lose too many of my precious fps of course.

Video seems to show some good improvements in colour, texture and shadow although the proof will be in getting the actual patch so bring it on.

[He111]

Great work, cannot wait.

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Originally Posted by Sutts

I've tried hard to get my sons interested in flying but no luck so far. With the addition of vehicle modelling this could change as they love things like BF 1942.

Can only be good for the sim to inject some new blood I reckon. And there will be folk who cross over to aircraft in this way.

Very wrong for most folks. Ppl who love planes are "born with that love". If you "infect" 2 out of 1000 bf2 guys with sims like CLOD or ROF I will applaud you.

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

Very wrong for most folks. Ppl who love planes are "born with that love". If you "infect" 2 out of 1000 bf2 guys with sims like CLOD or ROF I will applaud you.

Could be right there Tvrdi, we're a strange and rare breed for sure. Worth a try though.