Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

[kedrednael]

Originally Posted by Luftwaffepilot

I hope you are right. Would be a nice amusement to change the rivers course and to flood London.

I think that's inpossible, because there is no land lower than the river. ( I think)

[Luftwaffepilot]

Originally Posted by kedrednael

I think that's inpossible, because there is no land lower than the river. ( I think)

Yes, but i was referring to the bomb craters, that will hopefully have a certain depth.
I think too that's impossible because that would be too much processing power needed.

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by Sutts

In terms of tracer smoke, there is no doubt in my mind that certain .303 tracer rounds did emit smoke trails. The following is quite a well known picture of the RAF attacking an He111 formation. I've seen it as a film before but could only find this still image today.

Look closely and you'll see multiple parallel smoke trails produced by a bank of 303s belonging to a Spitfire or Hurricane. You can see more trails on the He111 itself where the rounds of another plane are finding the target.

While I agree that things like spirals and zig-zags are most likely artifacts created by camera wobble etc., the camera cannot create a smoke trail if it wasn't there.

If Oleg chooses to model a type that didn't emit smoke then that's fine by me. This is just intended to counter the old argument that .303 tracers never smoked.

I've been searching but I still can't find the film behind this still shot. I've definitely seen it on a number of occasions. Can anyone help please?

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by Sutts

If Oleg chooses to model a type that didn't emit smoke then that's fine by me. This is just intended to counter the old argument that .303 tracers never smoked.

Firstly, I think that Oleg was saying that they have many types of round modelled but not yet applied, so what we are seeing is not the real thing.

Secondly, I would be disappointed if smoke wasn't shown because it's pretty clear that smoke does occur whether it be from the round itself or the atmosphere. One of the biggest difficulties I have found in IL2 is to know where you are firing with .50cal and lower, the addition of the Holy Grail and Potenz effect pack was possibly the best mod ever produced imho and if you have ever looked at the comparison videos on you tube (I posted one in a previous thread before) you will see the similarities.
Other effects I would like to see are tracer rounds bouncing off the sea, land and targets at various angles - this is very clear in a lot of the USAAF ground attack footage from P-47s

[=XIII=Shea]

Looks fantastic,thanks oleg

[322Sqn_Dusty]

Originally Posted by Luftwaffepilot

Quote:
Originally Posted by kedrednael
I think that's inpossible, because there is no land lower than the river. ( I think)

Yes, but i was referring to the bomb craters, that will hopefully have a certain depth.
I think too that's impossible because that would be too much processing power needed.

But could that be possible at all? Isn't a river or sea hardcoded in the map? Othwise it could be possible to e.g. move on to the bombing of Walcheren 1943-1944. True there are no dykes to demolish.. or am i getting to far ith thoughts?

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Maybe it was a joke - if it was it was in bad taste, ignorant or disrespectful of the men who were involved in the battle.

Don't be such a drama queen ST, people get falsely offended so easily these days and all it does is make life unbearable. I assume you've never watched an episode of Dad's Army?

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by mark@1C

Hi,BOSS Oleg,

still some thoughts about those details and minutiaes,

<snip>

If you are really on the team, are you trying to get fired?

If you haven't got the message across internally or via enhancement requests in your own incident management process then it ain't happening. I work in software development and in our team blabbing publically would be considered gross misconduct whatever the intention. But I don't know about Russian employment law or working culture. Good luck anyway.

I've really done some moaning today, sorry everyone

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by Osprey

If you are really on the team, are you trying to get fired?

He isn't.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Don't be such a drama queen ST, people get falsely offended so easily these days and all it does is make life unbearable. I assume you've never watched an episode of Dad's Army?

I gotta disagree...it would be wrong and offensive to boast a fictional military service. I'm not saying Philip did, just that it would be wrong, and disrespectful if one was to do that, for example Dick Blumenthal.