Friday update and discussions 2011-02-25
 

Hi folks,

Some combat shots today. On the last shot is one of drafts for the CoD calendar. At the moment confirmed just Russian release of such calendar in a limited edition.

Second part
 

more combat shots

good stuff, that oil burn looks catastrophic. loving the lighting on the Emils!

Nice pictures, thank you.

Sehr Güt. Danke.

Nice shots, but what happened to the girl? :grin:

Oh now, that's fire!! that smoke with the hurri shot... isn't it too dense?

Great shots of the Bf's today and love the chute detail also Thx:)
Edit: seeing the emils, I seriously think of changing from red to blue :mrgreen:

Cheers Mr. Maddox!

BP

Give us the 8th picture! I know it was there! =D

Nice update, seems AA is working and that gives a clearer picture

Lovely piccies, thank you.

Thank you Oleg!!

sweet :)

can you post some screenshots from the Bomber (He111, Ju88) weapon layout?

I find the yellow coloring on the Me 109s to be too vivid.

Depending of the brighness. You may see it some time even too dark....

She is beautiful but wheres the blond? We know you have her, or are you keeping her for your self. ;)

Request submitted.

thx, maybe some screenshots London Bomber attack by night? :)

Oh boy,

Her fingernails are waaay too reddish.

;)

Bugger, my wife just walked in...

LOL:grin:

The fire detail is amazing.

In fact the details are simply overwhelming in general

Well done!

One question about the SU 26 that I'm not sure has been asked before...

Will the Su 26 have a full damage model like the military aircraft? The same internal details? If it is over stressed will it fail as the old birds will, or even if it is shot?

Thanks Oleg for sticking to your high standards. The waiting is well worth it!

nice Calendar for this month

Who take this picture ... and who got the ideas for the calendar ;) ? Look great O:o)

it just keeps giving, hope that parachute is strong enough for the fatty hanging from it:-P

Oleg, please, do you know if we'll be able to change subtitle language?

I'm from czech republic and I can preorder collector's edition here, but it will be english audio and czech subtitles. And I really don't want to have menus and briefings in czech. From my experience it tends to be confusing, when I'm more accustomed to specific terms in english.

I posted this question in last friday update, but nobody replied and I can't find the answer to this anywhere.
Thanks

My kids are shouting to mum that "dad has changed his wallpaper from London bombing to the calender girl" Thanks Oleg for keeping the troops happy.

Can't answer yet.

Nice flames!
I can imagine Beavis going nuts repeating "Fire! Fire!".

Fantastic collection of pics. Thanks. Flames on the Hurri look great.

Oleg, a few people have commented on the pilot position in the Spitfire - seems to be very rigid with his head too far back. I expect that you are already aware of it and it will be fixed?

Beautiful! I love the parachute shot. Thanks alot.

i have to admit that the bf's now look photorealistic!!!really nice!!!

I like the way this is all shaping up..

Yes, aware, but not sure that we will rework the model till release.

What I would like to know is can we can pilot the Su 26 with the sky full of enemies. Imagine dodging all them and seeing how long you can last.

Hey Oleg.

Can you tell the date of the deadline where you have to be gold?





P.S The thread title has a little typo.

Hi Oleg,

thx for the new screenshots, they look very good !

is the pilot figure "head" now moving in the direction we are looking to inside the cockpit ? i remember you hoped to have it working by release time, but dont know if there was any update if you were able to include it.

Yes it is

Again, very nice update.

I would like to add to this request as well - something featuring bombsight perhaps? Or anything bombardier and level bombing related.

Especially - will we have any control over the crew? In terms of giving orders: "engage any nearby planes" vs. "engage only incoming/attacking planes", and open / cease fire etc.

Hi Oleg,

will the pilot be visible in the canopy's shadow? At the moment, it isn't.

The weathered 109 looks perfect!!
Earlier the planes looked as if they lost their paint, without looking dirty first.
I like dirty planes!
:-)
Thanks for the fine update.

Great shots Oleg,one question oleg will multiplayer have a chat lobby like hyperlobby?thanks:)

ohh yes, the Bombsight, is this a Lofte 7B in the He111, screenshots will be fine

Hi Oleg a few weeks back you said you had some video to show us, is that likely to happen?

Aww......!:(

The fabric of the parachute between the cords is a very sharp angle.

Is it planned to make this fabric appear more rounded, or is this limited by something technical?:confused:

Thanks for the screenshots!:)

It's nice to see no straight line where the fire and flame touch the aircraft.:-)
The fire is incredibly nice.

great photos.
I really like the calendar.
Here is hoping that the calendar is available to more than just Russia :)

Very nice pictures but I don't like the new 'update posting strategy' that consists in not showing anything that could be criticized (clouds, ground textures, wheather effects)

When do we get a movie ?
I'm affraid that the bad FPS due to a lack of fine tuning is the reason why we don't get any new video. (In the last viedo the FPS was unacceptable for a gameplay)

Very very nice!

I really like the smoke just as it is. Very impressive in the way it meets the hurricane's wing and the smoke trail is nice and long-
The detail of the hurri's underside (rivets etc...) is so nice and clear. The new skins look fantastic...

C_G

Littlre Request
 

As always, the screenshots look great. :)

Apollogies for making this offtopic question that came to my mind when i saw this screenshot from another thread:

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...4_05_Setup.jpg

I remember long time ago that was requested for IL-2 some kind if limited external views for coop and dogfight missions. Something like if you are shot down or landed, you can switch to a fixed chase view, or inside cockpit view of friendly aircrafts. This was to give players the possibility to see some limited action of the mission when downed, but without allowing them to "cheat" by giving extra information to his companions by seeing more that the pilot itself when you have external views allowed.
Well, from the screenshot it seems we won't have something like this, that is why i would like te re-request this for the future (not necesarely now for the release) because its something i find entertaining for coop missions on virtual squads. Also would allow the server player to have something to do if he is shot down until he can terminate the mission (it happened to me several times :D).

Thanks again, and as always great work. :)


P.S.: i can't make the image to be displayed as a thumbnail!. How can i do that?.:confused:
Apollogies to all for the excesive size of the image!:(

I can't wait to see this in motion :)
Really looking like promotional screens that could be on the back of the box :)

+1!
Great suggestion! That would be really good for passing the time when you've been shot down and are waiting for friends to finish a "full real" coop mission and can hear that they are involved in some heavy action...

It is already a hemisphere. If you had curves at every string it would have a huge poly count. I don't think it is realistic to expect it to look more detailed.

In Il2 parachutes seem to take a large amount of memory as it is now.

I will probably disable them from bombers if we have that choice.

This is another example for what can be tesselated later when DX 11 is implemented.

And all this is only 4 weeks away!!!

Skarphol

+1
Nice update Oleg! Ty!

PD: chuqueta ponete a estudiar !

Originally Posted by zapatista
Hi Oleg,

thx for the new screenshots, they look very good !

is the pilot figure "head" now moving in the direction we are looking to inside the cockpit ? i remember you hoped to have it working by release time, but dont know if there was any update if you were able to include it.

This feature is also available in Lock-on but it only works during the gameplay and it's not recorded in the track files so it is not possible to use this great feature in 'Movie Making'. Will it be the case in BoB ?

Thanks for another great update Oleg.
I really appreciate the time it takes.

On the second part of the update, first picture.. Those 109's could have almost been taken from a still of the Battle of Britain film.. very good stuff chaps!

Oleg, will it be possible to disable facial hair on German aircrew?

And more seriously, will you be able to post more shots of various explosions, damage being undertaken by ground objects and ships sort of thing?

Any yellow nosed 109 still looks like its cleaned by Libyan personal.
I think that when I get the game I will find that the 109 textures do not have the atmosphere of the british or even the 110 or bomber textures. I have just not seen any that look as good.(the non yellow ones in this set look better then the yellow ones, but not as good as the other aircraft)
Not a big fan of their interpretation of RLM 04 either, too green for my eye.


Love the contrails above the hurricane.

Excellent as always

I think the parachute is over modelled!!

Thank you for the screens, look awesome...

Oleg, what about an "all the year" calendar in the next post? ;-)

..That's why the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain, they only used midget pilots! ;)

Oleg give a resize to the pilots please :)

Thank you Oleg.

GREAT UPDATE!!!

I have to say, the 109''s look GREAT! As does the rest of the screenshots! :D
For me, the 2nd picture in the first post with the hurricane looking up at the burning heinkels is the prettiest! Fire and smoke effects look brilliant!!

And once again, thank you for discussing the update with us :D

If you are still reading the forums Oleg, I have an easy question for you :

Are there more than 1 fire type/size in the game?

In IL-2 we have "Engine: On fire!" and "Fuel tank: On fire!"

Will there be more advanced fires in IL-2 Cliffs of Dover? Can a fire start small and then burn bigger and bigger?

If you could answer these questions about fire it would mean a lot to me!

I feel like I have seen smaller fires in screenshots, and this one with the hurricane looks like a complete fireball (all fueltanks are seriously burning).

Very nice screens! The product looks good from what we see here and in the other announcements of recent. It will be a beautiful day when I have my hands on this.. and I won't be looking out the window to check the weather I promise you! :D

Brilliant!..I have total confidence in this work...I am also always totally amazed at every picture or video we are privaledged to get from the crew and would like to thank them for liasing with the IL2 community in a way that is unprecedented in the gaming/sim world.

My first and only ask is this:

I agree with most about the 'yellow nose' bf109s being too new and bright looking and as yet I haven't seen one with the full weather worn distress that Luthier has mention in previous threads. I did see his initial post with his explanation of why however the picture he included was not of a distressed yellow nose but of the plain Bf109 and it was a menu picture of low detail.

So is there any chance of seeing a picture of a fully distessed and weather worn 'yellow nose' Bf109 actually ingame?

Thank you crew

...lew...

I would really like to see some crashes, still great update.

I also agree with the 109's noses being too bright, it's almost a dutch medical chopper:

http://sg.sea.123rf.com/400wm/400/40...75/4330403.jpg

Thanks Oleg.

thank you,great pics, i love the worn out effect on the emil 5th picture.the burning hurricane is also very intense!!!

A long life to COD
 

This will be the premiere non-arcade WWII flight sim for years to come. When you contemplate on IL2 still holding strong after all these years.....the possibilities for this are going to be immense. Guess its time to start planning and researching my dream machine.

current rig:

Dell XPS M1730
P-Core-2 Extreme 2.8
4 gig ram
8800M GTX (burned up 8700M after countless hours IL2)

Will relegate the above to business and other work. May have unintended consequences with the spouse, though :)

Thanks Oleg and Team and don't release until YOU are ready. We can wait.

I am going to try again :-)

Dear Oleg, could you please tell us something about how gauge output is handled for the simpit owners/builders?

Will it be native like drag and drop gauges/instruments like FSX?
Or a menu option to do something simular?

Or is it do it your self style again like il2?
If so, is multilayer supported with gauge output?

The parachute looks great to me, especially since it looks like the opening of it is going to be a lot more animated than what we've got in IL2.

Some almost forgotten beta shots :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWohMyI9Hbc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj7nEL1ekzM

Personally, for utter superawesome immersion, I'd like to be able to do this from "first person view" :)

Surely it could be added in the future, but then again, I'm more than happy with a better looking chute than what we already have in Il-2 1946 :)

first person view would be great.

Poor bastard on no. 9. He didn't even defend himself (guns still covered)

Indeed!!!

Great Shots!

A straight line between cords would have worked IMO

Thanks for the update

Are the pilots too small in the 109? The shot of the 109s banking towards the camera seem to show a tiny pilot. The 109 had a very small cockpit and I think the scale of the pilots might be a little off.

Here is a video of an RAF pilot testing a 109 cockpit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9YVei2Yb_k


ANyhoo, looking good, you will have my money come the day of release!

And what did that old Hurri do to deserve that?????

Very nice series gents, many thanks (even if the underside Hurricane rivets look to heavy to me)

Looking great Oleg & Team,

Keep up the great work! Glad to see one of the only dedicated flight sim developers on the PC putting out a beautiful product.

Great, but why has the calender no 7 , but two 6 .
I know you guys are looking for the chick, like I did too . :)
" Schweinekram " :) für Schweinekerle.

Thank you Mr. Oleg for this nice Friday Update. Great shoots, and a good lightning in these pictures.

Its a long way to the releasedate...;)

But every Friday is like Christmas, thank you.

Have a nice weekend. And a lot of quiet hours.

Thanks

with reegards from Germany

Towarisch

Like the first shot of the brand new looking 109E's - how long will the stay in that condition?

Surprised noone has said more about the water in shot 3... The oil smoke is fantastic, but the water is what appears to be the best in ANY sim. Better than all the addons for FSX... Incredible.

It looks like water!

Well spotted!!

6th February occurs twice in Russia!

I don't think we have seen this water before.
It looks nice: 'choppy'.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...220_140232.jpg

Looking at period pictures the pilot figure is too small. The 109E cockpit was not as spacious as the new screenshots suggest.

i thought parachute shot was the best one, didnt occur to check angle of strings etc, it just looked right, or alternativey, just plain amazing, better than i could have hoped for:grin:

Yes pilot is too small in my opinion as well, the screenshot where you see the cockpit from above lets you see it the best, I don't think there was so much space between shoulder and sidewindow either. Also the head seems to be perfectly aligned to the gunsight in 'cruise mode', that would not be correct but I can't say for sure.

For Olegs team, and us fans...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9YVei2Yb_k

Good Grief, that fire looks deadly! No wonder so many Hurricane pilots got horribly burned! The water looks fantastic!

I'm itching to start skinning for this!

Pilot size looks wrong,and then you see :
http://www.swissmustangs.ch/mediac/400_0/media/109.jpg

Looks about the same to me!

It isn'tready yet. Will be in a patch I think.

I think we've already covered this pilot size ground before. Oleg or Ilya stated that it was a programming issue at this point, if the pilot was the correct size it currently affects head movement for the view system. I think they said it would get fixed eventually but probably not for the release.

I'm happy to see markings with weathering today! :-)

Gorgeous pics Oleg, thanks.

Just stand back from that first 109 formation shot - there's nothing to tell you this isn't a real aircraft. Amazing.

I like the worn camo on the non-yellow 109s. It looks like the markings get weathered along with the paint now too.:grin:

Chute looks great with nice detail around the harness attachment.

The sea does look more choppy than previous shots and very nice too.

I tend to agree with others about the 109 pilot size. I believe they have been made a bit smaller to get around problems with the pilot model clipping through the side of the fuselage when they move around. A real pilot moves according to the restrictions placed around him - canopy and fuselage sides. It must be hard to animate a computer pilot with the degree of accuracy required to avoid moving part of the body outside the aircraft.

That's my take on it anyway. I'm sure with time things can be tweaked to perfection though.

yes, this is exactly what i was about to post... the pilots are WAY TOO SMALL!... the 109 pilots shoulders should be touching the sides of the cockpit!

I've had this suspision about it for a while now and these lastest patch of pics (todays and yesterdays) confirms it...its so plain to see that they are too small for the planes!

Oleg: I see some repeats of ground texture (on other screenshots).

Will every texture have the same buildings locked to it, so that we see the same farms over and over again? Or will there be variation where the buildings are not locked to certain textures?(I am not talking about towns, I assume these will be different).