Friday 2010-08-27 Dev. update and Discussions

[luthier]

Evening gentlemen,

Another fruitful week comes to an end. Oleg's got a hell of a flu, so I'm doing a update for him. Apologies for making some of you suffer as you waited for your fix.

We've done a lot of stuff this week, enough for a few updates. Today we're focusing our new and improved aircrews.

Also a little bit of fancy flying (you can collide with each one of those wires).

[krz9000]

boom first

cool guys flying these planes i like the look on his face parachuting down

the plane could have a few more polys. the contour is quite edgy. polysmooth+1 & optimize lawl

[Shortgrey]

reboom second

[Skoshi Tiger]

Thanks for the Update

[Fansadox]

Very nice screenshots but for the love of god start using AA + AF

[NLS61]

Thanks for the update,
last picture I see aircrew exiting and freefalling in positions not unlike professional skydivers.
I think this so called frog position was invented much later when parachuting became a sport.
The an question.
will the problem be fixed that when one has a low opening and is les then three second from the ground but under fully opened canopy one is standardly still killed as in IL2?
I know for a fact that an open round canopy on opening will breathe once and then has its final decent rate.
I've seen people survive this sort of low openings without a scratch several times

[madsarmy]

Originally Posted by Fansadox

Very nice screenshots but for the love of god start using AA + AF

The game runs to choppy with those on

[philip.ed]

This is looking so good; the crew look real! Question; will the effects for tracers be 3D or 2D (currently they are 2D in Il-2). I'd love to see how the tracers smoke trails could look and react in game.
Regarding fire; does it spread? This is too much to ask, I know, but I just wanted to know. I think I read somewhere that fire could spread and so I am curious if it starts out small and grows in size (as the fire in those shots looks lethal)

Awesome pics.

The Reargunner in picture #4 seems to be shocked because he's still standing and imaginary holding the gun though it was blown away.



Picture # 3: Why do these parents let their little child fly a hurricane?

Originally Posted by philip.ed

... will the effects for tracers be 3D or 2D (currently they are 2D in Il-2). I'd love to see how the tracers smoke trails could look and react in game.

I'd love to know this too but also will smoke in general be 3d and react when flown through?