Friday 2010-06-17 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Oleg Maddox]

Trees in cities are currently turned off to test final buildings placement - rest assured our cities will be green for release!

The trees are still being improved, it's not the final version. As I told earlier – we will tune everything in every detail till end of the project…and then will improve for the next project

So don’t worry about some graphic and colors/lighting glitches that somebody may see on these screenshots.

Water (separate image from programmer’s PC) – is one of the various types in testing. The coastal and shelf (underwater) textures are not present on the shot (in progress).

[Oleg Maddox]

Some more

[pupo162]

nice!

citys look top notch, water looks just beutifull (maybe a crash in the water for next week, please :p ), and hurris also do look lovely targets for ze 109!

congrats Oleg!

[Daniël]

I've got just one thing to say and that is WOW

[TheSwede]

Amazing shots Oleg!
I showed the first picture to a dear colleague of mine and he asked me if I took that photo

If you ever think of releasing a "Collectors Edition" or whatever I would gladly pay ~150$!

Regards
Simon

[Manchenko]

This is more then life!

[KaHzModAn]

Originally Posted by Daniël

I've got just one thing to say and that is WOW

you meant "SOW" right ?

Great shots Oleg ! I wasn't worried about the look of the ground... and I was right ! just awesome !

with textures under it, water will look great too...

you've made my day !

[philip.ed]

Oleg, great shots; love the water and the hurricane!

Regarding the landscape, the way to make it look realistic is to have actual hedges on either side of the roads (except maybe in the cities) to give a realistic view of the landscape. There appear to be some hedges, but every flight-sim on the market makes the mistake of only using tress to simulate the environment. Whilst this looks good, it lacks the realism.

Look at any photograph from the 1940 period of an aircraft in the air, and you will see that the fields look at though they have 3-d borders

Keep up the good work!

EDIT-and by the way, there were no rape-fields in 1940 (unless an innocent women walked onto a farm) so I don't think there should be any yellow fields.
Are these field textures showing the quality they will be in the final release?

[Meusli]

Bravo Sir, Bravo. The cities and landscape are excellent can't wait to see with trees in the city.

[96th_Nightshifter]

Very impressive Oleg, The water actually looks................wet lol

Cheers for the updates.