Friday 2010-08-27 Dev. update and Discussions

[luthier]

Originally Posted by arjisme

Interestingly, the propellers in the first two shots don't look like that.

Exposure. First shots were paused at 1x speed, the others at 0.25x.

Originally Posted by major_setback

I would prefer the Hurricane pilot to be immobile rather than placed too low in the cockpit. It is very noticeable.

Yeah, he accidentally got set into different plane position, leaning back sports-car-driver style. I was really late with the update so I didn't want to waste more time asking him to be reset.

Originally Posted by Zorin

2. The Ju88 model does show its age, which is sad. Your Do215/17 already has modelled thickness for the hull and canopies, which the Ju88 doesn't have and results in a IL-2 look I had hoped not to see in SoW.

You're kidding, right? Look at the Il-2 Ju-88 model again. The BoB model has almost 10 times the number of polygons and 4x the texture.

I just took a screenshot of the Ju way, way too close (Oleg will be mad). All models have a finite level of detail - get close enough, and you will see the edges. Today's computers have nowhere near the power that can render a super-detailed model that distance.

Originally Posted by Zorin

3. Will the aircrews on multi-crew crafts all have the same face? I thought they would not, but the screenshots lead us to believe otherwise.

The two guys in the front of the Ju-88 have different faces. They just both have a mustache.

There will be different heads and different faces, and all appearance of each crew member of every plane will be fully customizable.

Originally Posted by Zorin

4. Does the Ju88 skin shown in the shot show a bump map yet? It doesn't look like it. There is a hint of a specular map in the "bail-out" top shot, I believe, though.

Some questions put me in a temporary stupor sometime.

Yeah, there is a normal map on each of our models. Always been.