Non-Friday 2010-05-24 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Sluggish Controls]

First post on 1C, and what a treat !
Fantastic images and stunning details.

Does anyone know if aircrafts will produce some sort of grey-ish smoke trail off the exhaust stacks when applying full throttle?
My ref are only movies and books, but apparently pilots could sometimes tell when an enemy was applying full throttle by the additional smoke coming off the engine.

Anyway, just a thought, it's 2am so please be kind !

Cheers,
Slug

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Sluggish Controls

First post on 1C, and what a treat !
Fantastic images and stunning details.

Does anyone know if aircrafts will produce some sort of grey-ish smoke trail off the exhaust stacks when applying full throttle?
My ref are only movies and books, but apparently pilots could sometimes tell when an enemy was applying full throttle by the additional smoke coming off the engine.

Anyway, just a thought, it's 2am so please be kind !

Cheers,
Slug

Would be cool, its pretty visible whan looking at youtube vids of Black6 for ex. Could be a framerate thing though.

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Pretty nice! Hard to choose if you should go for a ride in that Spit or that Roadster...

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Wonderful update! I was already convinced years ago that SoW would be the revolution - I see everything coming true. Thank you Oleg !

[easytarget3]

Oleg!Thanks for the update!the planes look amazing,photorealistic, the smoke i like and the light effects are also beautiful, but the clouds, i have to admit they look too much like one cloud copied many times and randomly placed on the sky, i understand you have to fight with technical limitations but please try to make some more variations and sizes, thanks!

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by easytarget3

Oleg!Thanks for the update!the planes look amazing,photorealistic, the smoke i like and the light effects are also beautiful, but the clouds, i have to admit they look too much like one cloud copied many times and randomly placed on the sky, i understand you have to fight with technical limitations but please try to make some more variations and sizes, thanks!

A couple of responses from Oleg already to queries on the clouds:

"First of all we don't plan to model the mother-earth all weather effects. It is simply impossible even if to make just one total simulator of clouds with all of millions types....
We will have just several. And with them we model airflows near, under over, etc... "

and

Originally Posted by philip.ed;

Thanks for that Oleg. Regarding clouds, clearly you are on-to something regarding the particle effects, but I think that they are looking too much like Il-2 in normal light effects. For instance, I think that you have the potential to create something really awesome here, so I hope that they are still quite WIP. Because the earlier video of SoW (the version based on the Il-2 engine) showed some clouds which IMO looked better like these (in normal light that is).

"We have more than was shown in that old video.
Simply the work of artists should be added. Not now. Currently low priоrity in therms of the full project complexity."

I understand the second quote to mean that the clouds we see now are 'placeholders', and that they will be replaced by higher-quality graphic-artist created clouds closer to release date.

[Sluggish Controls]

Originally Posted by EJGr.Ost_Caspar

Pretty nice! Hard to choose if you should go for a ride in that Spit or that Roadster...

that will be the Spit for me on any day, thank you

Slug

[6S.Manu]

Originally Posted by Sluggish Controls

that will be the Spit for me on any day, thank you

Slug

But in the Spit there is no space for farmer's daughter...

[Pierre@]

Originally Posted by 6S.Manu

But in the Spit there is no space for farmer's daughter...

Sometimes, yes.
WAAF Margaret Horton had a ride on the tail of a Spitfire, AB 910, as an unexpected passenger in 1945.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a2742275.shtml

[Skarphol]

In Murmansk, Russia, 3 people where killled when a Hurricane (or spit?) chrashed due to the same thing. But there, the ground was in such a poor state that they used to have 2 persons sitting on the tailplane. The plane got too tailheavy and chrashed immediately after takeoff, killling the pilot and the two 'passsengers'. I have the story in a book at home.

Skarphol