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

[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.

[easytarget3]

thanks for explaination!

Originally Posted by kendo65

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



"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.

[Sagamore]

Friday... Waiting update...

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by Sagamore

Friday... Waiting update...

Read the first post of this thread. This is the friday update that was posted in advance because Oleg takes some days off.