Friday update and duscussions 2011-02-18

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by reflected

The new screenshots are breathtaking, BUT!

1: Oleg, you're using the post 1941 font for the RAF planes' IDs! The font that was used in the BoB was a lot more square! It's available on simmerspaintshop.

2: 92 sqn did NOT have black and white undersides during the BoB only from December 1940, but those were Spit MKIIs with white spinners and white tailband.

Please do your homework better, the importance of historical accuracy is paramount!

As far as I could tell, there was no date posted stating the day that the Image was suposed to be taken.

I for one would be very disappointed if the sim did not let me create mission for dates imediately before or after the Batlle of Britain. Or restricted us to playing only historic missions!

There is NOTHING that has been said to imply that these images have been taken from a campaign mission.

IMOHO it is the mission creators role to ensure that historically correct skins are enforced during a mission. In many cases people playing the game may want personalized aircraft. DB had one so why can't I????



Great work Oleg and Team!

Cheers!

[Richie]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Ask that in another thread.

They don't look in other threads. It's not a pesky question and they're not going to answer it in the threads that are headlined with that question. This thread is the only chance every week to get in touch with either Oleg or Ilya. and quite a few people have been wondering about this so don't roll those eyes at me.

[kirq]

Originally Posted by Biggs

If you give a mouse a cookie.

He will ask for a glass of milk.

Hungry mouse wount give $

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by zapatista

nice new screenshots, looks like it is coming together nicely, especially the color tones are more realistic now (to be expected with the final tuning)

good to also see 3D forest extending all the way to the horizon, rather then it becoming a flat 2D landscape

question: on screenshot 5 (the lower altitude dogfight) the forest seems to completely engulf the roads , this might be fine for a small country road passing through a Forrest area, but for a medium to larger size roads it isnt very realistic. will this be manually edited and fine tuned before release ?

Well you see from up above trees do indeed seem to engulf roads except in the case of highways, and all of the roads you would see in 1940 would fall in the former category. Drive down a country lane sometime and you will observe that the canopy would obscure the road from an aerial view.

[heywooood]

oh man - first the grass is wrong color...now the trees need a trimming

Oleg - I dont care how the Spit flies if these importanter issues remain I will not be buying

Grass of Dover dammit

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by Kikuchiyo

Well you see from up above trees do indeed seem to engulf roads except in the case of highways, and all of the roads you would see in 1940 would fall in the former category. Drive down a country lane sometime and you will observe that the canopy would obscure the road from an aerial view.

you must be looking at a different picture, or are confusing rivers with roads

on the picture i refer to the problem is fairly obvious (but not a show stopper that requires release delays, we are talking about fine tuning)

on the upper left of the screenshot you see some small roads disappearing into a forested area, and that is quite normal. it is a thin narrow road.

if however you look at the lower right hand part of that picture you see much wider roads, in fact the widest road of the whole picture, and it still completely gets engulfed by trees when it enters the forest, that is what i was referring to

[heywooood]

seriously though

nice screenshots Oleg - cant wait to fly CoD

[tomaz]

.......for the next phase of Cliffs of Dover.

Flyable Heavies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdVZyhCcb3c

[Heliocon]

The contrast/shading/saturation looks far far better in these photos, beutiful.
Also we finally have some AA woot!

Just waiting on a video to see it all "come together"

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by zapatista

you must be looking at a different picture, or are confusing rivers with roads

on the picture i refer to the problem is fairly obvious (but not a show stopper that requires release delays, we are talking about fine tuning)

on the upper left of the screenshot you see some small roads disappearing into a forested area, and that is quite normal. it is a thin narrow road.

if however you look at the lower right hand part of that picture you see much wider roads, in fact the widest road of the whole picture, and it still completely gets engulfed by trees when it enters the forest, that is what i was referring to

I don't think you understood what I was saying at all. I am arguing that a wide road in 1940 is as narrow as a country lane of today. Automobiles weren't dominant back then. You seem to be assuming that a road of today is the same width as a road of yesteryear. I (correct me if I am wrong here) am thinking that you are assuming that a highway of today is equivalent to a major thorough fair of 1940, and this simply is not true. The major arteries of traffic we have now are close to 10x the width of high traffic country roads of 70 years ago.