Friday update and duscussions 2011-02-18

[Triggaaar]

Love the lighting. Nice corn too. Thanks for the update.

[1.JaVA_Sharp]

fantastic stuff!

[philip.ed]

Very nice, lovely to see the night and day scheme on the spitfires: I was thinking you had missed this out.
Out of interest, will it be possible for the 'pop' feature of objects to be sorted out? if we look at shot 4, one can clearly see trees which look quite crisp against terrain which is blurred. The transition doesn't look seamless, but I'm sure this can be fixed. (I bet you knew that already, didn't you?! )

Also, in one of those shots, are the spits flaps partially down? I though they only had two positions....?

[4H_V-man]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

Love the lighting. Nice corn too. Thanks for the update.

I didn't read every page, so somebody may have already noted this...that isn't corn. It's wheat.

[meplay]

just grab an ak47 fire on full auto and see how it looks

[Biggs]

This has got to be one of the most beautiful shots Oleg's released so far....

[klem]

Originally Posted by 4H_V-man

I didn't read every page, so somebody may have already noted this...that isn't corn. It's wheat.

But is it genetically modified wheat? I couldn't possibly buy a game that contains GM wheat.

We demand to know! Has Oleg researched this in adequate detail?!

[sallee]

Originally Posted by 4H_V-man

I didn't read every page, so somebody may have already noted this...that isn't corn. It's wheat.

Depends where you come from! In the US corn is what we in the UK call Maize. In the UK corn means wheat or even barley.

[Richie]

I wonder why English started to change when we came over to North America? Centre center zed zee etc...Of topic I better shut up.

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Richie

I wonder why English started to change when we came over to North America? Centre center zed zee etc...Of topic I better shut up.

The Centre to Center change was implicated by Webster (of dictionary fame). He had some very odd ideas when it came to spelling. Some of them stayed with us, others didn't. (He changed Aluminium to Aluminum in USA too, and also changed the American pronunciation of 'schedule' to 'skedule', and Luitenant to 'lefftenant').

Lots of old English terms were kept by Americans, but sound strange now to our English ears...but they are actually older English terms...such as ''sidewalk.
...And the term 'gotten' : I only found out today that it is old English (from Bill Bryson's 'Mother Tongue'). It is a term we British have not used for a long time, but Americans have preserved.