Friday 2010-11-12 Dev. update and Discussion

[klem]

Hi Oleg,

thanks for the latest update.

Can I throw a couple of questions at you (they missed out on the last Friday update)?

Will SoW use Tesselation?

Will there be adjustable turbulence at various altitudes? What we get in IL-2 seems to be quite coarse/rough. I'd like to see more use of turbulence but I think the mission builders leave it out because it is too coarse/crude especially for upper layers.

On the Tracer question, there were 'flame' type tracers which IceFire showed so well in his post last Friday. There were also the spiral (vortex?) smoke types but the third type the RAF used did not 'trace' the trajectory but gave a visible 'splash' on impact to confirm correct aim. It was called "DeWilde" ammunition and was very popular with the pilots. Will we have that?

Will the undercarriage modelling be better in SoW? Even when I pull of a 'greaser' in an IL-2 Spitfire there is a good chance it will still bounce around like a drunken turkey. The Oleo compression doesn't seem to be modelled too well (sorry). I asked a friend about this who travelled a lot in a 2 seat Spitfire (and flew it en-route) and he said that it might bounce in the direction of flight on landing but it wouldn't usually 'wobble' very badly laterally. It isn't only the Spit though.

Hope you can help

Oh btw, no, there aren't trees on the Dover Cliffs beaches and the cliffs have a more serrated vertical look to them than the soft undulating surface you show - but I really don't care as long as it gets released soon