Friday 2010-07-23 Dev. update and Discussions

[No601_Swallow]

Originally Posted by Drum_tastic

So many experts here!

Shouldn't the fire look like this....?

Those tracers they don't look right.....

Thanks, Drumtastic. That's pretty much what I was going to say.

Oleg - ignore the know-it-alls! Personally I feel privileged just to be able to see these WOP updates. Thank you!

[louisv]

Originally Posted by GOA_Potenz

maybe it's because we been waiting this since 2005, and 5 years later see some things too similar to il2 engine, makes you wonder why.

If what you have been seeing in the updates in the last few weeks looks to you like IL-2, then there is no hope for you

[robday]

Originally Posted by GOA_Potenz

maybe it's because we been waiting this since 2005, and 5 years later see some things too similar to il2 engine, makes you wonder why.

The updates we have seen so far look many times better than IL2 IMHO! I've been playing IL2 since it was first released and I believe SoW will be a quantum leap forward in aerial combat sims when it is eventually on our machines.

[louisv]

Originally Posted by mark@1C

A question, who can tell me please what are those four shining spots in the first picture?
Reflected light from He-111? Then from the body or the canopy?
I feel a little odd, I mean if it came from the body, the shining spots should be bigger than that have been shown, shouldn't they? Or if it came from the canopy, then where are their bodies? Vanished in the blue sky, because of their camouflage? Or they are just navigation lights? In a daytime in a white colour?
Those four shining spots really look a little odd for me at such a distance in the picture, just like four UFOs...

Flak exploding I think (watch from close -up we can see some far-away flak smudges)

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by louisv

Flak exploding I think (watch from close -up we can see some far-away flak smudges)

I rather guess these are placeholders for the smokepuffs from bullets penetrating the aircraft skin, just like the ones present in IL2.

[airmalik]

Originally Posted by mark@1C

A question, who can tell me please what are those four shining spots in the first picture?
Reflected light from He-111? Then from the body or the canopy?
I feel a little odd, I mean if it came from the body, the shining spots should be bigger than that have been shown, shouldn't they? Or if it came from the canopy, then where are their bodies? Vanished in the blue sky, because of their camouflage? Or they are just navigation lights? In a daytime in a white colour?
Those four shining spots really look a little odd for me at such a distance in the picture, just like four UFOs...

yeah it's hard to tell if it's tracers in the distance (evenly spaced) or glints off aircraft. I don't think all three planes would glint at the same time so maybe it's tracers.

It'd be cool if you could see occasional glints from distant aircraft if you happen to be looking in the right direction. IRL unless your eye is focused at correct distance air craft in the air are hard to spot. Glints would help greatly in this regard. I'd like it to be an occasional glint rather than a constant glow as in the screenshot though.

[kedrednael]

Originally Posted by mark@1C

A question, who can tell me please what are those four shining spots in the first picture?
Reflected light from He-111? Then from the body or the canopy?
I feel a little odd, I mean if it came from the body, the shining spots should be bigger than that have been shown, shouldn't they? Or if it came from the canopy, then where are their bodies? Vanished in the blue sky, because of their camouflage? Or they are just navigation lights? In a daytime in a white colour?
Those four shining spots really look a little odd for me at such a distance in the picture, just like four UFOs...

the spots are paused tracers

@ Oleg or Luthier

Do the bullet casings seen in the fith image damage other planes when hitting them?

[zakkandrachoff]

tracers:

maybe i need to see the video of the new tracers. anyway, are better than 1st tracers
some tracers machine gun real life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx5aR...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCbDvc8-9g8

[Dano]

Originally Posted by zakkandrachoff

some tracers machine gun real life

That's the point, they're not in real life, they're on film and that affects how they look.