Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

[kedrednael]

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

Dear Oleg maddox if simulator SoW not have the wind is negative.
wind is a important physic factor.
EXAMPLE direction of wind.
GLIDER airplane not fly if not have Wind.
Wind cold or wind hot.
glider airplane.
instrument meteo for take direction and intensity of wind.

We fly without wind.
Did you mean:
Dear Oleg Maddox, if simulator SoW doesn't have thermals that's negative.
thermals are an important physic factor.
gliders won't fly verry long without thermals.
I think you meant that right? otherwise it is just complete nonsense, even now it's stupid.
hot air rises, so can we thermal above burning factories, cities?

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by kedrednael

Dear Oleg Maddox, if simulator SoW doesn't have thermals that's negative.

Did I say it anywhere?

[kedrednael]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Did I say it anywhere?

I was just changing Xilon_x post because it made no sense, I thought he meant what I said, bacause a lot of people mistake thermals for wind.
I knew there would be wind, it was even mentioned in the pre-alpha video on youtube, sorry for the confusion.

[chiefrr73]

hi Oleg,
thank you for answering questions!
Will the people/soldiers in BOB run out of their vehicles, when we are attacing them, like it was in IL 2. Sorry if this was asked before.

[kedrednael]

Originally Posted by chiefrr73

hi Oleg,
thank you for answering questions!
Will the people/soldiers in BOB run out of their vehicles, when we are attacing them, like it was in IL 2. Sorry if this was asked before.

In the vehicle updates we saw that the doors were openable... So it might be possible people will run out.

[Splitter]

Originally Posted by kedrednael

We fly without wind.
Did you mean:
Dear Oleg Maddox, if simulator SoW doesn't have thermals that's negative.
thermals are an important physic factor.
gliders won't fly verry long without thermals.
I think you meant that right? otherwise it is just complete nonsense, even now it's stupid.
hot air rises, so can we thermal above burning factories, cities?

I think there is a big language barrier being experienced here . May I try to sum things up?

In IL-2, there is wind and turbulence but it is not modeled "well" (the game is 10 years old after all). Flying in a real light aircraft or in a more modern sim dedicated to flight (not combat), the effects of wind are more apparent.

These things (wind and turbulence) will be modeled better in SoW if I have read past postings correctly. Crosswind landings may take some extra skill.

How did I do?

Thermals: I don't know of any general aviation flight sim that models thermals "well" for gliding. What I do know is that programming for such things and doing it well takes a lot of resources (from what I have heard from developers of other flight sims). It would not surprise me that a dedicated glider sim does the best job. But we don't do a lot of gliding in combat sims .

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