Friday 2009-11-27 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[AdMan]

buying brand new OS' is for suckers

though I was surprised to see a CRT monitor, just looking at that gave me a slight headache

[luthier]

Originally Posted by AdMan

buying brand new OS' is for suckers

though I was surprised to see a CRT monitor, just looking at that gave me a slight headache

We have XP machines for a reason. We want to have this guy run on XP and DX9. We can't very well develop for XP without XP machines. That's why we have different OSs, different brand CPUs and video cards, etc.

CRT monitors? Well, somehow, every time we get a hardware budget, it seems to get spent on other things. We actually just did a major upgrade earlier this month. Those cases you see are pretty old, but they're filled with bleeding edge stuff. We bought lots of CPUs and RAM, terabyte HDs, latest video cards, newer bigger pen tablets, etc. Somehow, when we were done, we just didn't have anything left for monitors. Again.

[tagTaken2]

As long as CRT is running at decent refresh rate, it's not an issue. I'm still using mine.

Wonder if SoW will run faster on XP?

[csThor]

Originally Posted by luthier

The waypoints are there, shown on the map.

Formation assembly, altitude, radio, etc - the text box is there. You can fill it in with whatever you like. Maybe I'm missing something - did you mean to say that we should automatically display text descriptions for every waypoint, all callsigns, etc, for every single group in every single mission?

The texts you see are just something I typed in in 5 minutes to fill in the box. It's just a test mission never in a million years intended to be a part of the final release.

I am aware that this won't be part of the final release, but I felt I needed to get my impression out ... make it known to you since you happen to miss emails concerning the topic

I did not say that there should be a list of waypoints, but a much more in-depth description of ingress and egress for a formation which surely consists of more than just four bombers. Standard size for a german bomber attack was a Gruppe, and often more than that, so the briefing would have to contain information on take-off sequence of the Staffeln on the airfield (so that there's no major scrap heap in the middle of the runway 'cause 7. and 9. Staffel wanted to take-off at the same time), position of individual Staffeln within the Gruppe's formation, the Gruppe's place within a larger formation, locations, times and altitude for picking up fighter cover, information of advance sweeps and other operations in the area, stuff about emergencies (i.e. radio frequencies and callsigns for SAR) ...

Such stuff. IMO a briefing is more than a simple text saying "Fly there, shoot that, go back."

[mark@1C]

when I was reading Luthier's reply,it occurred to me suddenly,"luthier" in English pronunciation is a little bit similar to "russia" in Russian pronunciation .

[mark@1C]

Originally Posted by luthier

Somehow, when we were done, we just didn't have anything left for monitors. Again.

Well,every pilot shoud learn that,
Take care of your eyes,just like your body and plane,and so on....

Take care of yourselves,all members of Maddox Team.

[Feuerfalke]

Using CRTs is hardly a hint for lacking behind modern hardware. Depending on what you are working on, old CRTs can present you a better idea of realistic colors than most common TFTs do.

[Foo'bar]

In the end it should be the developer's decision to keep his old CRT instead of getting a new one. I think that those guys don't need our ideas to improve their environment.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

In the end it should be the developer's decision to keep his old CRT instead of getting a new one. I think that those guys don't need our ideas to improve their environment.

Exactly

[furbs]

thanks for the reply luthier...not moaning...just surprised me thats all.

if i had won the euro lotto this week i would buy the team all brand new kit!