Friday 2009-12-04 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[AdMan]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

???? To me the photo's show that the 3D model matches the photo. ????

If you remember the original comment was that the decking behind the cockpit shouldn't reflect as much light as the canopy glass. In the first photo we see that the surface of the plane should be reflecting much more light than is shown in the 3d image. The smooth texture of the aluminum decking behind the cockpit IS shown in the 3D model. The second image doesn't really prove much as the open canopy hides the detail in question.

I followed the link and couldn't see an image taken at the same angle.

I recon if they had a realistic reflection people would be complaining that the lighting was over done.

agree, the pics show that the screenshots are highly accurate. The color of the paint at the places where light is being reflected is almost an exact match. After all, paint IS acrylic (plastic) so to use a plastic looking material as a shader is the correct modeling approach, crank the specular highlights up a little on those screenies and you have almost an exact match.

[Abbeville-Boy]

WAL

[Skarphol]

The grass in this screenshot is obviously seriously undermodelled!



The grass was WAY longer in 1940! I have charts!! Oleg, this kills the immersion!! Plz fix.

Skarphol



Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

The grass in this screenshot is obviously seriously undermodelled!

The grass was WAY longer in 1940! I have charts!! Oleg, this kills the immersion!! Plz fix.

Skarphol

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Don´t forget the ground crew uniform, completely porked!

[zakkandrachoff]

i don´t understond what is wrong

this cockpit is very similar to your pic, Skarphol.



explain right what is wrong for you

[Skarphol]

Originally Posted by zakkandrachoff

i don´t understond what is wrong

this cockpit is very similar to your pic, Skarphol.

explain right what is wrong for you

Well, I was not really complaining about the cockpit, it looks fantastic!
I am more worried about the grass in that Hurricane screenshot. I think the grass was way longer in 1940, as they had not yet invented lawnmowers you could sit on. Thus they had to either cut the grass manually, or hire some local sheeps to do the job. I've not seen any screenshots with sheeps yet, thus the grass should have been considerably longer! And this is a great immersionkiller to me, and I think Oleg is neglecting this huge aspect of flightsimming! OLEG!! Plzfix!

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by zakkandrachoff

i don´t understond what is wrong

this cockpit is very similar to your pic, Skarphol.

explain right what is wrong for you

It's a joke. Notice that the "screenshot" he is talking about is a photograph. Probably not a photograph from 1940, but still.

I however do have concerns, the paint on aircraft should be matt, except in the case of parade finishes, such as the finish on the aircraft in the photograph, which is presumably a current day photograph, of an aircraft finished in modern paints, for parade type duties. Some paints are acrylic now, but they weren't in WW2.

This from "How to go plastic modelling" by Chris Ellis, copyright 1970:

If you are making Second World War aircraft, the chances are you will hardly ever need gloss finishes except in the case of highly polished fighters. But on modern aircraft the finish nearly always is polished, even when it's camouflage.

[Richie]

There's other screens of long grass. Look in the past three weeks or so.

[Richie]

Here

http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/grab0104.jpg

[zakkandrachoff]

Skarphol I have your big grass, look





oleg promess cows, i dont know anything about sheeps. maybe in ThunderJet will be sheeps.