Landscape Colours need adjusting IMHO. I just saw pics from a BOB TV Program.

[159th_Jester]

Couldn't agree with you more.

Desaturate your video card colors . Problem solved.

[Catseye]

Originally Posted by machoo

Desaturate your video card colors . Problem solved.

The card is set to proper colour balance both for colour hue, saturation, contrast and brightness.

Its not the saturation of colour that is at issue but rather the hue. Too much gold in them hills from what I can see.

[RocketDog]

CloD's landscape is pretty poor-quality work, with even simple things like the colours of the trees (darker than the fields, in real life) being wrong. I suspect that their budget was so small that they couldn't afford to send someone to the UK and hire an aircraft to check it out for themselves. I did get a smile from Luthier's description of their landscape guy as a "genius", however. Incidentally, I spent an hour today flying over SW England and think they could still make some useful progress just by changing tree colours etc. But the sad truth is that this is one area where CloD lags some way behind other sims.

[winny]

So you can see..
Forward to about 2.35, unless you want to see Ewan hugging a Spitfire.

[skouras]

excellent video thanks for sharing

[Catseye]

Originally Posted by winny

So you can see..
Forward to about 2.35, unless you want to see Ewan hugging a Spitfire.

[Lololopoulos]

Originally Posted by winny

So you can see..
Forward to about 2.35, unless you want to see Ewan hugging a Spitfire.

[xnomad]

The problem is that when you fly COD at 12:00 midday you are flying on a perfect day.
You know those days where it's a brilliant blue sky and the sun is making everything so bright you have to squint, and everyone is in a great mood?

I've never lived in Kent etc., but I lived in London for a while. Most of the year the UK has clouds and it's either raining, has rained, or rain is on it's way in the near future. Then once in a while you get those brilliant blue sky days where the whole area looks transformed.

So what's missing is the dynamic weather, fly COD at different times of day and it looks amazing under different lighting. I agree the current landscape looks a bit off, but I think it's also because the air is far too clear, there's no haze, fog, smog etc, especially over London, London should be covered in sooty smoke.

Ewan is not flying on one of those bright middays in this video, ( I scanned through it but not that I can see). He's flying on a average UK day, and that's why it looks familiar.

Obviously as a landscape base, the devs have to model a perfect day, and then add weather and lighting effects on top. They also have to make sure that the landscape looks good at all altitudes from the ground up to 8000m.

In the current version when you fly a normal mission in COD, it is without the dynamic weather so you are pretty much flying on a perfect day with maybe a smattering of clouds here and there.

[Catseye]

Originally Posted by RocketDog

CloD's landscape is pretty poor-quality work, with even simple things like the colours of the trees (darker than the fields, in real life) being wrong. I suspect that their budget was so small that they couldn't afford to send someone to the UK and hire an aircraft to check it out for themselves. I did get a smile from Luthier's description of their landscape guy as a "genius", however. Incidentally, I spent an hour today flying over SW England and think they could still make some useful progress just by changing tree colours etc. But the sad truth is that this is one area where CloD lags some way behind other sims.

Interesting observation. My take on the landscape at this time is that it is more like the Russian Steppes than the UK. Too many grain fields and dry looking. Also, the airfields look clumpy with big grass tufts on the ground. Those fields were pretty well mowed and more like a football pitch than an unkempt farmfield in a dry climate.
Cheers