It's starting to scare me the level of photorealism of this sim...

smoke the grass and it won't be scary anymore....

and I agree - the environments and atmospherics being illustrated are most impressive...proper lighting is critical and so far SOW looks to be well lit

Pictures 26.11.2010
 

Dear Mr. Oleg and Team,

first: GREAT JOB, GREAT GAME, GREAT PICTURES (Update)
second: dont worry, be happy:). cause we have no other weather , here. It`s cold and snowing, actuallity......brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..brrr...shl otter:) well it´s winter.

But.....


CHRISTMASTIME;)


And to the Probs of Computers: Maybe its a gift from your wife (Angel););)





Oleg.....one word ...........THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT WORK, and to your TEAM. Have a silent and nice weekend.



Towarisch

I'll second the question: "will SoW benefit from an extra video card?" Was hoping that two GTX 480s would be better than one.

Thanks for posting despite your hardships, Oleg. These Friday updates are always a good start for the day :-)

But seriously folks…

It's very important whatever walk of life we're in to take a good rest and a break, that includes too much time playing on the PC !


Oleg, have you taken any good photos of the weather ?


Hope the game is out before the Royal Wedding...an extra bank holiday to play SoW !

OFF TOPIC will get you a minimum 1 week ban in SOW update threads

Backgrounds ...What makes you conclude that these are not from the game, with some photoshop or something ?
Oleg said that the weather system, including clouds were almost done and needed to be integrated in the engine...Therefore my question: would that be a first glance at what is coming...
And if I am wrong, well Oleg will tell me...If he thinks my question is way off, well, he'll ignore it...Simple , no ?

Salute

Yeah, well I do believe these are shots taken from the game, at least it looks like it, the trees, buildings. The clouds...??
I think, just a hunch, that the cottonballs are a placeholder for sth totally wonderful... seeing all the stuff being so realistic I can't imagine the final clouds being the cottonballs we've seen so far, but we'll see, it's a mysterious shot anyway :)

Exactly...Placeholders I am sure of that...Because Oleg did mention that final clouds and other features were done by only one guy in his team...That's why it took a while, and his work was not yet intergrated in SOW's engine...But maybe it is now but not ready for playabilty , but ok for screenshots....;)
So that picture could show some of the new clouds system....

Salute !

Bugs, what are you talking about? Shouldn't the landing lights have a backup battery and turn on if the wing gets disconnected from the fuselage?