Friday 2010-06-04 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Daniël]

Will cows and sheep react on airplanes as they fly over? Can they get killed by bullets?

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Daniël

Will cows and sheep react on airplanes as they fly over? Can they get killed by bullets?

Probably kills will be prohibited. We don't make animation for killed animals with details.
My principle.

[Daniël]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Probably kills will be prohibited. We don't make animation for killed animals with details.
My principle.

But will they run away as airplanes fly over them?

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Daniël

But will they run away as airplanes fly over them?

They are animated, but not all things ready for that to speak yes or no. So I wont say now what we will have with animals.

[F16_Petter]

Hello Oleg!
These latest pictures are wonderful!
I have a question about skins.

You mentioned earlier that there will be different "layers" on how skins are displayed on airplane.

For example that the skin will become dirty or paint chip missing after a while.
I guess this needs several layers of skins to be created? or is it generated randomly?

And another question that nobody dares to ask..
Will the community have something to play with before the full release of SoW?

- A Limited demo like in the IL2 days? (this is what got me flying)
- A skin or template with explanation how skinning works?
- Or anything else you can think of so the community can get their hand-trembling curiosity a rest.

I guess im just like all of the rest here.. very curious.

[F19_lacrits]

Originally Posted by f16_petter

hello oleg!
These latest pictures are wonderful!
.....
I guess im just like all of the rest here.. Very curious.

+1

[Winger]

Originally Posted by F19_lacrits

+1

Wanna know that too! Ill get myself a brandnew Comp once the game comes out. Want to play that game fuidly with most settings turned on.

Winger

EDIT: Meant system Specs

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by F16_Petter

Hello Oleg!
These latest pictures are wonderful!
I have a question about skins.

1 You mentioned earlier that there will be different "layers" on how skins are displayed on юairplane.

For example that the skin will become dirty or paint chip missing after a while.
I guess this needs several layers of skins to be created? or is it generated randomly?

And another question that nobody dares to ask..
Will the community have something to play with before the full release of SoW?

2. - A Limited demo like in the IL2 days? (this is what got me flying)
3. - A skin or template with explanation how skinning works?
4. - Or anything else you can think of so the community can get their hand-trembling curiosity a rest.

I guess im just like all of the rest here.. very curious.

1. User may change the skin, but not the part of weathering. Weathering is a part of each aircraft model in internal source code. This is neccessary for the right online gameplay and many other things. So in this part user limited to change it.

2. No, we don't plan to have demo. Simply probably impossible due to limit of time and technology of sim creation. With Il-2 we simply have some time in the period when the game was ready and publisher still was Blue Byte, but then the date of release changed for later dates due to fact that Ubisoft bought Blue Byte and we had some time to make the demo from already ready product for the release.

3. Yes, I think we will release the skins (or just templates) before the release of the sim.

4. maybe. I think some will get couple of our samples for 3D modeling, when all things that will be in release will be incorparated in 3D and code. Not earlier because I don't like later to say that this or that was skipped due to lack of time before release. So all things that are not go in release currently should be removed that to do not confuse third party developers. But them maybe we will open these things that wasn't finished, but was planned.

[Abbeville-Boy]

oleg when do you think the publisher will be revealed to us?

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

They are animated, but not all things ready for that to speak yes or no. So I wont say now what we will have with animals.

that is excellent news !

having some moving/living animals in fields and near airfields makes the sim world "come alive". instead of having an empty world to fly in

thanks for including those elements in your "great plan"