Aerial Photographs of the UK, Hundreds of them; and Bird's-eye View of Trees

[zxwings]

Many, many photos of the English (or British) landscape, taken from the air:

http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/Portfolio.htm

It's interesting to compare them with what we see in IL-2 CoD . And a discussion about trees in CoD is in the following post.

Some photos picked out from there:

[zxwings]

The landscape in CoD is already so good that I often found myself enjoying the beauty of it as seen from the air. But having become more and more formiliar with COD visually, I think that as far as trees and woods go, there is still big room for improvement.


By examining the aerial landscape photos, we can find two imperfections of the CoD trees:

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1 - The colours of the CoD trees and woods are not dark enough. Trees and woods should generally look darker than the ground.
(Almost all the picutres posted above illustrate this point.)

2 - The colours of the CoD woods lack the variation in colour found in real woods (in a bird's-eye view), the variation, in fine art terms, being often a sort of cold colour & warm colour alteration. The colour variation is sometimes very conspicuous but at least easily decernable.

Here the woods' colours display evident variation both in a lightness-darkness manner and in a coldness-warmness manner. As to the latter aspect, browns and yellowish greens are abundant among vaious shades of green. Even trees of the very same type will be well likely to display different colours, since some trees grow earlier, some better, etc.


Tree colours in the woods, in this picture, show very little lightness-darkness variation, but some trees look more cold-coloured (bluish, or cyan-ish) and others more warm-coloured (yellowish). The warm-cold colour variation would be more prominent if the exposure of this photo had been less, considering the very strong sunlight, as shown below.

In CoD, the colours of trees look almost indetical. Of course, the computer draws such extremely monotonous trees faster than better looking ones - I know it. But to what extent will the game fps be slowed down if some variation is added? Perhpas it's worthwhile to do.

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Some CoD trees and woods, mostly from the screenshots thread, for easy reference:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...1&d=1335604872
http://s14.directupload.net/images/120303/ogxvt6x9.jpg
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/x...antPhalanx.jpg
and from a recent thread: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a23...5-17_00002.jpg

If these two shortcomings are overcome, CoD's landscape will be even more beautiful!


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[easyhomewin]

These pictures are clearly fake; the sun shining and no rain in england????... you must of thought we were born yesterday

[Red Dragon-DK]

Lol

[zxwings]

Originally Posted by easyhomewin

These pictures are clearly fake; the sun shining and no rain in england????... you must of thought we were born yesterday

It's raining everyday in England??? English people don't know what sun looks like? The Battle of Britain was fought in rains??? LOL

you may want to explain how they fake them. lol

[BH_woodstock]

outstanding pictures of the cliffs.I think they did a great job rendering them in the game.
the pictures with the hurricanes looks fake for some reason.I dont doubt they are real but it looks like they are taken straight out of Dover

[KG26_Alpha]

Nice to see Hawkinge BoB Museums still falling apart.......

Donations are getting harder to come by each year as these little place fall into oblivion.

[philip.ed]

The Hurricane's are replicas, sunbleached, and parked in Hawkinge Battle of Britain museum (a great museum too).

[KG26_Alpha]

Brenzett's falling on hard times too, I pop in there for a chat whenever its open and I'm down that way.

Nice people there .

http://www.brenzettaero.co.uk/Museum-001.html

Back on topic


You have to remember that the camera shots are enhanced to give a enriched foliage look to the ground and sky for that matter.

I took this shot up the Pyrenees (French Side) and gave it some adjustments in PS4 to make it look "richer"
although its a great looking view in real life the enhancement is false as in most of the above shots.

What we see with the MkI eyeball and our brain interprets is different from a cameras image
so we enhance it to make it look better to compensate for the original impression we felt or think it should look like.









Anyway were not flying a scenery simulator, but the feel of CoD at certain times of day is pretty good compared to anything else I've seen.


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[Buchon]

Just a note :

-Most of that photos are not in summer time, while in BoB was, so the grass should be less green and the trees too due the summers´s time sun effects.

I think that the main difference between those photos and CLOD is that the treetops are too thin in the game while in the photos they have more volume.