Sweet vid! It is nice to see the Italians make an appearance as well (the G.50 is a fun ride in IL-2 - I have flown it a fair bit). Please take all the time you need to get the sounds done right. I'm sure everyone will be suitably impressed when you decide a video with sound is postable. I always look forward to your updates and I hope that you will continue to post them. Fridays are awesome to start with, but Fridays + SoW updates are even better!

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

You said they were too grey. Not unrealistic. And yes we don't know what time of year/day, weather conditions etc are set (more reason for you not to comment) I never said you were whining, just opining on something when you don't have all the relevant info.
Oleg's been in this industry for 20 plus years, what makes you think he doesn't know what he's doing?

The clouds you see are grey because you are looking at them from beneith, they cast shadow on themselfs. On the top clouds are whiter, If there are no high clouds.
The top of the clouds shown here look great! they look like activly growing, sun bathing cumules clouds :) at least in the first shot with the Wellington (my new screensaver) But maybe the clouds also should be more white on the sides facing the sun. I think it is really nice to see some clouds again.

some normal cumules clouds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD2XYeZppHE
Of course these clouds are impossible to make in a video game, in 2010. But the tops of the clouds shown in the screenshot from the wellington today look extremely realistic.

I didn't know the AI was able to move to different places in the plane :cool: I didn't even think about it.
In the video the bullet holes look a lot more realistic than I thought they would look. :-) It are bullet holes right?
Nice update.

BTW, if you look at the terrain in this real life video at 0:30 when you see the ground best. you will notice that you can see almost no difference in colours there, even less detail in the ground as you see in the SOW pictures. That's not because in this video you see forest and in SOW you see countrysides.

I don't know the guy but he apologized for it, there is no reason to call him names. He was asking for more materials and there is nothing wrong with that. Stop the smoke blowing, we are paying for this game :!:

Constructive criticism is not "The terrain sucks, looks like a watercolor, looks worse than 1946, the terrain has poor resolution, this effect is not up to standards"

The fact is that we're seeing the highest resolution terrain in a sim to date, with houses and trees added painstakingly by hand. Maybe you and I and other and Oleg don't agree about the colors, but that's no reason to bash someone's years of work to say that a child could have done better. Your computer probably won't run the game at all due to its sheer complexity, and the clouds are too grey.

This is the funniest thing I've seen all day.

Oh yeah, those "f---ers" and whiners ruining it for everyone else...

And then your second paragraph.

Tell me, did you do this on purpose to be funny? Tell me you did, because if you were serious...


Of course, we can all just point our fat fingers at the other guy for making Oleg (and maybe even his team members) upset with us. We can excuse ourselves right away with "my post was before your post" etc.

Everyone here should be pointing their snotty fingers at themselves.

I'm guilty of it too, but just listen to us experts:

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I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner.

Remember people, Oleg and team are not required to show us anything, they don't owe us anything. SoW could have been developed under covers without a single screen-shot posted.

Oleg said this week that he couldn't post a screen-shot because that would mean compiling the code and other things - too difficult because of the move. Well, he posts a screen shot anyway. He only said he might consider posting a video, and that nothing was promised. He posts a video anyway.

At least take the time to punch out a "Thank You".



So, thanks Oleg and team for all your posts and patience with all of us. Have a good week, good luck sorting out the move.

BTW, the screen-shots and video look great this week (and I sincerely mean it). Too many good things to say. (lighting, crew animation, paint flakes, bare aluminum, clouds in 5th pic look awesome - just as they should, etc....)

I think he knows what he's doing, but mistakes were made in Il-2 and the clouds here don't look realistic. The greyness of this justn't isn't representative of clouds. If clouds carry rain, they will not necessarily have the same colour all over. The clouds here look like that to me.
Is just my observation mate ;)


@Romanator; my posted was directed at those whining for videos. Since when did I do that mate? And you're wrong. These textures are not high-res. The buildings and objects are, but not the actual field textures. So you are wrong. I never said the terrain looked like watercolour....

I live on the South coast of England and I see clouds as shown all the time. That's in the context of the ever changing skyscape that is real life. Once again this seems to be an attempt to analyse conditions through a frozen instant of time rather than waiting to see the unfolding scenario in realtime from your seat in your chosen plane. I'd prefer to wait until that comes around.

Anyway, comfort yourself by looking at shot #5 - notice that every cloud has a silver lining ;)

brando

+1 Romanator. Well said. I just hope we haven't pushed Oleg too far this time.

And just add my voice to this, most of us here SINCERELY appreciate the efforts Oleg and team go to to keep us informed during the development phase. I for one would be really upset if this privilege was taken away from us.

PPanPan

It's a computer program, not a made-to-order sandwich bar.

Thanks for the up-dates Oleg....

The sim is just looking better and better...I'm glad you took the time to post the screen shots.

And thanks for the video...I really enjoyed the peek into the crew animations.