Friday 2010-04-02 Video and Discussion Thread

[virre89]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

If the Dorniers in the video had looked like this:



instead of this:


Then this video would have been sooo much more jawdropping!

I'm pretty sure the dornier actually looks like that allready, but for some reason Oleg choose to show us something quite less impressing. He is probably building up expectations step by step.

Skarphol

PS! I borrowed the Dornier from Mysticpumas thread, I hope he will forgive me!

The look of the aircraft in the video was way more jawdropping than that screenshot. If it's historically accurate i can't comment on since i've no in depth knowledge about that plane.

But people need to stop the nitpicking sometimes seriously..

[TinyTim]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

If the Dorniers in the video had looked like this:

pic of 110

instead of this:

pic of 215

Then this video would have been sooo much more jawdropping!

I'm pretty sure the dornier actually looks like that allready, but for some reason Oleg choose to show us something quite less impressing. He is probably building up expectations step by step.

Firstly, the first picture is a screenshot, the second is a capture from a video.
Secondly, on the first picture the sunlight is reflected from the water and from the plane to the camera, so you get the shine. On the second picture the sun is behind the camera, so you can't get a reflection apart from some minor surfaces that happen to be at the right angle.

Anyway, the video is amazing. Dynamic lightning, just wow. Canopy framing casts shadows... incredible.

[AndyJWest]

The still picture of the Bf 110 is 1288 pixels wide. The max resolution of the YouTube video is 480 pixels wide. Guess which one is going to look better, even ignoring the fact that the compression algorithm used to reduce video to a reasonable size is going to result in further loss of detail?

[JG4_Helofly]

Very nice video! Looks almost photo realistic to me.

Unfortunately, people begin already to fight about minor details.
What will it be like, when the game comes out and FM discussions start to pop up?
The forum will be a battlefield...

[proton45]

Hey, what do you guys think? Is their a missing texture here? It kind of looks like the back of the engine is missing...

[K-Style]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

If the Dorniers in the video had looked like this:

http://download.softclub.ru/pub/il2pict/grab0168.jpg

instead of this:
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...myaircraft.jpg

Then this video would have been sooo much more jawdropping!

I'm pretty sure the dornier actually looks like that allready, but for some reason Oleg choose to show us something quite less impressing. He is probably building up expectations step by step.

Skarphol

PS! I borrowed the Dornier from Mysticpumas thread, I hope he will forgive me!

The Dornier looks more like a photo than the ME110 image.

[Modding_Monkey]

Originally Posted by proton45

Hey, what do you guys think? Is their a missing texture here? It kind of looks like the back of the engine is missing...

This is know as a SHADOW.
When the sun's rays are blocked they are created.

[AndyJWest]

Unfortunately, people begin already to fight about minor details.
What will it be like, when the game comes out and FM discussions start to pop up?
The forum will be a battlefield...

A lot of the 'fighting' seems to be over imaginary details, rather than anything Oleg has actually shown us. I think there are enough knowledgeable people in the IL-2 community to have a rational discusion about FMs etc, but this will to some extent depend on forum moderators - not that I'm any way criticising the moderation here - and also on a bit of goodwill from everyone. I suspect most of us will be too blown away by everything for the first month or two to get into major rows over the flight model details.

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by proton45

Hey, what do you guys think? Is their a missing texture here? It kind of looks like the back of the engine is missing...

It's shadow on the rear of the engine nacelle. Here is what the rear of the engine nacelle looks like:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...9CdFnfD_fs.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...R/Do215004.jpg


There are some really excellent large photos of the aircraft here (SaQSoN/Oleg already have these BTW):

http://spasticforplastic.1hwy.com/TR.../Do%20215.html



It's a beautiful aircraft.

[Richie]

I'm sure we will see more and more as time goes by. More impressive things. I'd like to see the 109 cockpit, judging from the interview that check 6 did I think it's done.