Is anyone tense?

[Splitter]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

I had a hard time recognizing anything in the first half of that video. The HDR effects which make the sky white and the cockpit black are hideous. And the overcast cloud layer is a mess - couldn't even figure out if it's above or below the plane from the looks alone. Add to that the strange mecury rain and you have a good example about how not to create immersive effects.

At least the second part showed some better scenes; the forests arestunning and the ground textures are simply very well done (even after being filtered to oblivion and back). Although I'm still feeling that the maps aren't to scale; seems the landscape moves too slowly. Hard to say though without playing it myself, which I care even less about after this video.

I would second that. Two words came to my mind watching the video; DARK and overdone.

I've never been in a plane on an overcast day where I couldn't see the instrument panel because of shadows. It looked more like the video was taken at night with a full moon and no instrument lighting.

The forests were nice though.

Splitter

[philip.ed]

I'm tenser than a choir boys bum.

[Madfish]

Originally Posted by Splitter

I would second that. Two words came to my mind watching the video; DARK and overdone.

I've never been in a plane on an overcast day where I couldn't see the instrument panel because of shadows. It looked more like the video was taken at night with a full moon and no instrument lighting.

The forests were nice though.

Splitter

I agree with you, in fact I dislike HDR myself. I also dislike the coloring but it doesn't change anything about the superiority of the core engine advances.
There are mods/settings for IL-2 that do something similar actually (gamma tools anyone) by the way. And while it can improve some parts, it makes others worse. HDR can be very nice but it takes to long to adapt to new perspectives and it's usually flawed.

However, the "white" thing is something that makes me wonder. I mean flying planes without any feedback, ultra precise controls etc. is one thing - but looking into the sun without getting blinded by it? That's really overdone indeed.
If we get a good weather system we should at least also get blinded by sunlight. I don't know about you but I haven't met many people that are not getting blind(ed) when they look into the sun.
And usually, when you looked at something bright, the surroundings WILL appear very dark. HDR is still a little overdone in BoP, true. But it's still a realistic approach that just needs to be refined and turned into something more simulation like I believe.