Friday 2010-09-10 Dev. update and Discussions

[JG27_PapaFly]

Cooool! Ice Ice Baby....

[335th_GRSwaty]

Thank you Oleg!!!

[Baron]

The water and the Bf cockpit looks....wow.

[Flying Pencil]

Oleg, good to see you are all better!

I can't wait to play this game!

[zapatista]

Oleg $ Co,

nice update !

the city looks good, and the plane on fire looks amazing and very real

yeah baby, we're getting close now

[Robert]

I didn't realize an admin had to change topic titles. Oh well. Stuff happens.

Now onto the gooooooood stuff. The city looks maaaaaaavelous. The buildings give the impression of weight instead of cardboard cut outs thus lending to the realism of the environment. The 109s taking off is brilliantly done. The colouring of the grass looks pretty neat to my eyes. The water looks wet.
I love the draw distance in the back ground. The 109s canopy looks like my car windows on a cold February morning.

The lighting gets more and more impressive each update. The long shadows in the 4th picture is a beaut of a reality booster for me. It's either very early morning or just before twilight when the sun is low and blinding on the horizon.

There's more but I need to look some more. Too much goodness at one time.

Thanks Oleg. Appreciate the update.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Great shots, it's really coming together now. Shot number 4 (either post) is quite impressive with the longs shadows and the fog, lighting is top notch. Can't wait to see it all in motion.

Thx Foobar, didn't realize that.

Still the ice looks a bit too less sharp imho.


Concerning those awesome looking waves i am wondering if we will be getting real shaped cricle waves around the object that crashed in water?

Would be really cool if the "failing" pilot would be screaming visually (+acoustic).

[JVM]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Thx Foobar, didn't realize that.

Still the ice looks a bit too less sharp imho.

This ice is quite a good representation...it is even too clearly defined, in RL ice cristals are in fact smaller and block very effectively vision (you would probably not see our wing so clearly, it would be more like a shadow). On the other hand it will take time to cover entirely the cockpit interior, and the first ice growth will be little patch by little patch randomly arranged in the coldest areas which will be slowly joining together and then getting some additional thickness if the situation is allowed to continue.
De-icing is usually done only by mean of an electric de-icer or a powerful and sooo cold air flow when non de-icer equipped...and it takes time!
Having cockpit ice in enemy territory is akin to a death sentence!

JV

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Would be really cool if the "failing" pilot would be screaming visually (+acoustic).

In fact, I don't think people who fall - scream at all.
I know I wouldn't, I would just think "oh ****!" and take my last breath.