Friday 2010-03-26 Screenshots and Discussion Thread

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Les

Oleg said recently they've licensed 'Speedtree' and will be using versions of those trees, modified to suit SOW.

Here are the default trees Speedtree offers -

http://www.speedtree.com/trees/

Should be alright.

Les.

Can you explain how it will be 'alright'?
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but I can not see more than a couple of native British trees in that listing! Most trees are American and would look totally out of place!!!


There isn't even an English oak!!

This means lots of development time is needed for them if they haven't already been modelled. I hope Oleg isn't trusting that there will be enough default trees in that program to suit SoW:BoB, because it looks as though there aren't.

[AdMan]

those trees are very similar to an English Oak, quite a bit smaller than a full-grown oak but with some reshaping of the leaves the textures would be spot on

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by 13th Hsqn Protos

Doofus.
Now anyone that posts an opinion contrary to yours is a troll .....

No, Protos, I think he was referring to you specifically. Your body of work speaks for itself. Were it anyone else, he may have suggested a visit to the optometrist. Unfortunately there is no cure for inflammation of the ego, at least no external one, so a doctor won't help here.

[BadAim]

At least they actually look like trees. This is definite progress. I should think Oleg's crew will take the observations of Englishmen into account, when landscaping England.

[13th Hsqn Protos]

Originally Posted by BadAim

Unfortunately there is no cure for inflammation of the ego....

So true in your case ..... you have always been a wannabe.

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by AdMan

those trees are very similar to an English Oak, quite a bit smaller than a full-grown oak but with some reshaping of the leaves the textures would be spot on

I don't want to be too negative, because they are WiP's. But I disagree - it is not enough to change the leaves. The oak is instantly recognizable by the shape of the tree, and way the branches spread. They are typical for this tree. It is a very difficult thing to model if the modeller knows nothing about English trees.
I can tell an oak in a field from almost any distance (as most English people can). The same goes for a few other trees (Elm, Beech, Willow, Horse Chestnut). And I'm not an expert, nor particularly interested in trees.

[proton45]

Originally Posted by 13th Hsqn Protos

Still looks like IL2 to me .....

You see what you want to see...

[zapatista]

Oleg,

thx for posting the update !

the tree detail looks very good, even individual leaves and great tree truck detail in close up view houses look good to !

will after-market modelers be able to edit ships/houses to increase detail level to match the il2-BoB aircraft ? i know you recently mentioned some objects like ships at this time were not modeled in as much detail as the aircraft (as we could see from the screenshots) because this is an aircraft sim after all (fair enough)

some BoB users however will be willing to spend the time to increase the details on those to match the aircraft (like foobar did with trains), will this be "open" in the game and possible to do for us ?

[lbuchele]

Originally Posted by flyingbullseye

ATI will run IL2 1946 just fine in perfect mode my HD 3870 has no problem. You just can't use water 3,4 only 2, looks just as good as NV 3,4.

Flyingbullseye

Understood.
Well, all this years and I never bought a ATI card because I thought they cannot do perfect mode...
I hate to admit but I´m a moron.
So, I will start to look for one of those Radeon 5970 babies.
The drivers are stable too?

[AdMan]

well I don't think this:


is too far off from this:


wouldn't be too hard to do a little reshaping to give it more of a classical Oak shape.

These trees actually strike me as Oak trees if you were to prune them and keep them in an Orchard.