Friday 2010-06-25 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I also think that the landscape is looking quite blurred from the aerial view.

I guess that is exactly one of those 'things' in the user options to gain higher FPS -- blurriness vs sharpness of the ground can perhaps be adapted to your system in the config. That would be a neat idea actually.

Maybe Oleg can say something about this ?

[Zorin]

Something else I just noticed in the bailing out shot. There are no crew members left inside the plane, at least I can't make out any, but the hatch on top of the cockpit section is still in place. That is odd, cause that would be the hatch the cockpit crew would use to get out.

Why is that? Still WiP?

[luthier]

Originally Posted by KOM.Nausicaa

I guess that is exactly one of those 'things' in the user options to gain higher FPS -- blurriness vs sharpness of the ground can perhaps be adapted to your system in the config. That would be a neat idea actually.

Maybe Oleg can say something about this ?

These were taken on my low-end machine, which I purposely keep crappy so that we can ensure better FPS. I could have been taking prettier screenshots, but I'd rather release a better product! So yeah, it just cannot load highest-res terrain textures, so that's why you see all that blur.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by luthier

These were taken on my low-end machine, which I purposely keep crappy so that we can ensure better FPS. I could have been taking prettier screenshots, but I'd rather release a better product! So yeah, it just cannot load highest-res terrain textures, so that's why you see all that blur.

And the specs of said 'low-end machine' are? Pleeeeeaaaaaaaaaase

[lbuchele]

Originally Posted by Dano

And the specs of said 'low-end machine' are? Pleeeeeaaaaaaaaaase

Yes,yes,yes,post the specs!

[luthier]

Originally Posted by lbuchele

Yes,yes,yes,post the specs!

We can't right now. Some people will take this too far and start making upgrade decisions, and then we'll get blamed once the final specs are announced.

And fine, it's not exactly a low-end machine, it's a mid-range machine with an old video card.

I'm assuming you're all so eager to ask about my crappy machine because you're going to run BoB on an older weaker setup. To put things in perspective though, the original Il-2 when it was just released coudn't do 60 FPS at max settings even on the most bleeding-edge machine of the day. We are magicians here, but we do need proper equipment for our magic.

[Erkki]

Thanks Oleg, I see some fixes have been made. Do we get to order the train tickets soon?

[philip.ed]

So Luthier, are you suggesting that this may be the case also with SoW? I mean, obviously, no-one really expected it to run on the same systems Il-2 runs on excellent settings on. That's be silly

However, it depends how you rate the graphics. Will SoW on low/medium be equal to Il-2 on the highest settings

[jocko417]

Looks great guys, so nice to see the accuracy in the high polygon models, like how the gun ports of the Hurris are just above the chord line of the wing, not at dead center of the leading edge.

Dano is right, looks like the wire doesn't attach to the radio mast correctly yet.

As for the pilot's position in the cockpit, looks ok to me...



That FW-200 looks nice, with all the Hurri shots I'm thinking CAM ship campaign! After the sim is released would you guys be able to add the ability to have Hurris launched from ship catapults to protect merchant shipping? Would give us something else to do after the BoB besides cross-channel rhubarbs while waiting for the next theater in the SoW series.

[frsv0678]

Great update as always!
Nice pics and cool effect, the covering "tape" over the MG's.

It would have been cool playing SOW:BOB in 3D^^