why do cities seem so small?

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by SaQSoN

All maps are 1:1 scale. Some buildings, however have bad, out of scale textures.

Check out this site:

http://warfly.ru/

It has WWII aerial photos of various Soviet cities overlayed on google maps, so you can check out how this cities grew since then.

I see a Moscow map but I don't understand Russian to navigate the site well enough to know exactly what you are trying to say, its probably not what I'm talking about the maps 1:1 perspective not its size geographically.

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

They weren't high end, they were middle of the range. Which is where most of the customers were, so that was where the market was.

I built a computer back in 2000, it had an Athlon 1GHz, and a 64MB AGP 4 graphics card, I could have bought a faster Athlon if I'd wanted to spend a lot more money, but I don't remember how much faster the absolute top of the range was. The AGP was a GeForce 2 GTS/PRO (that's confused, but it's what the maker called that particular card), there was an Ultimate above it, I suspect with the same ram capacity.

Even today not everyone flying IL2 uses top high end GPU CPU.

The 8-16mb cards were most common in use it the beginning of IL2 with 3DFX making some of the best at the time before 2000 and the later Nv cards who bought out 3DFx Voodoo the Voodoo 5 128 card was one of the most expensive at the time.

64 mb cards were probably the norm around its release 2000 era still considered high end due to the fact most other games were just emerging from the caves and flight sims were the most demanding software out there.

[SaQSoN]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

I see a Moscow map but I don't understand Russian to navigate the site well enough to know exactly what you are trying to say,

I made a picture for you:



You may see how much city area grew since 1940-s. Most of the ex-Soviet cities grew at a similar way between 1945 and 1991. Even not a major ones. And they still grow, although at a bit slower rate.
I bet, European cities also grew in a similar way at the same period.

Edit: If you look closely at the WWII-period photos from the site, I posted above, you may find Moscow defense positions and AT ditches in the South-West sector. If you compare it's location to the modern map, you will find, that currently this places are far within the modern city limits! While in 1941 they were several km out of the city limits.

So, my point is, the cities in the game are small, because they were small back in the 1940-s.

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

its probably not what I'm talking about the maps 1:1 perspective not its size geographically.

Distances in the IL-2 non-fictional maps are 1:1 scale. I.e. if distance between, say, Kiev and some nearby village IRL is 10 km, then it is 10 km on the in-game map as well.

[vpmedia]

original object number limits were very low, nowdays its a bit different

[KG26_Alpha]

yea its getting lost in the translation.

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

If you had a 1:1 perspective the processing power needed would huge..

Perspective
and not
Geographical

I know most of the maps geographically are correct.

The perspective when flying in the map relative to objects trees buildings bridges are too small hence lack of map immersion low over towns and cities.






Cliffs of Dover did a lot better not 100% though





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