Friday 2010-07-23 Dev. update and Discussions

[Tone71]

Originally Posted by JVM

Concerning shot 5, I see the tracers are there, but why do we have to see them as dashes like we are watching a movie?
The dashes appear because during the time the shutter of the camera is open the moving bright point that is the tracer goes a certain distance which depends only on the shutter open time and the bullet speed (this is a way to calculate the speed!); however in a simulation we are using directly our eyes which only see the bright points going away, like anybody having fired tracer rounds with a gun or a machine gun could assess!

That's because this is a computer game, so the effect needs to be simulated. If you move a dot across a screen that updates 60x a second you will never achieve quite the same effect. In reality, however, our eyes don't see things in discrete steps, so fast moving lights are blurred.

Originally Posted by GOA_Potenz

maybe it's because we been waiting this since 2005, and 5 years later see some things too similar to il2 engine, makes you wonder why.

Oh and GOA_Potenz, that's just plain rude btw.

Thanks for the shots Oleg, very good of you seeing as you are on vacation and should be taking a break from work! Remember, you can't please all the people all of the time!