Weathered Markings
 

Now that really is getting a bit off topic!:grin:

Mr Maddox also commented on the weathering of squadron codes etc. being a 'bug' that they may or may not resolve.

It can be seen on one of the G50 shots there there is something happening to the lettering where the paint is worn, but it doesn't look quite right. Not 'worn off' enough perhaps.

This isn't something that would bother me at all in the initial release, compared to IL2 they look great, but looking at the screenshot and filmmaker potential of the sim, what do others think?

Will we have the option to get the spit/109/hurricane/etc repainted/patched-up? It'd be cool to see the work of the airmen like patches over cannon-shell hits etc ;) I doubt this will happen, but in the future.... :-P

i do love multi-quote.

presumption to speak for all. well done man, hubris +50 for you.

i'm guessing, but can only say personally, that i know these are WIP shots... i will leave off the complaining for when i get the game in my hands and the machine capable of playing it at full settings before assuming that something is wrong. and then we will see many patches after release in the hopefully long long life of the game, correcting any number of miniscule errors.
nah, even building it as an addable option would be illegal. however it could be that user made skins can feature it, and that's something that is end user modifiable by it's very nature, rather than built into the engine as a patch would be.
not as far as i recall, other than landscape. i'd expect it to add bells and whistles and performance. have a look at crysis in dx9 and 10 for examples of stuff, eg "god rays"
he feels, not everyone else is of the same opinion. can he post examples of a 2010 flight sim to back up his view?
on the basis of evidence and observation... no.
one of the things seen in dx11 tech demonstrations is the tessilation (sp?), so instead of having a flat 2d texture of paving stones, you actually get the 3d variations between slabs.
zing!
equally, i don't think "painted by a child" is in anyway helpful, in fact i'd take personal offence at that if i had been working on a game for years and wsa told this by, frankly, a rank amateur who most likely has absolutely zero relevant experience.

such posts as you highlight are people expressing a positive and grateful outlook at being shown dev shots. do you think each of these doesn't notice the jaggies etc? no, they are evident to all, but those people recognise a WIP shot when they see it, and have the necessary neurones to remember the previous series of shots and see the progression.

and an equally good solution is "think, write, read, think, post".

if you're posting in a belligerent, ill-mannered way don't think you are somehow protected from the approbation of others who are honestly appalled at what they are reading.
precisely. should be posted in font size 7 flashing letters before each update.
forums always need polls. lots and lots of polls.

MD, show me where I have posted something appalling.
Did you actually read my original post before saying that I wrote something appalling? My first post was a simple question that I had posed to Oleg. There was nothing rude about it.

It is so worrying here how any critisim is recieved, some of you lot are boardering on fanatical, it really is a joke. No offence of course.

Also some user have been baned for saying something like this :rolleyes:
Please calm down , we just want to see something new of SOW:BOB, all of us ( maybe not) know that now you ( Oleg) are beeing pushed and you are the first to release the game, but you want it with quality, and not full of bugs.
Regards

I look forward to not seeing you in any servers.

Once again:

Thank you very much Oleg and team. I and many with me see theese updates for what they are and appreciate your tolerance and hope u, despite everything will continue showing the progress on SoW.

Please dont let the majority suffer because of the acts of a few. (why does that sound femilliar?)


P.S. The last shot of the Wellingtons is especially nice, the detail is amazing, thx :)

Funny. Now telling Oleg that we like the progress and appreciate him posting (especially this Friday given the circumstances he explained) is not "constructive" enough? Gimme a break...

Some people way overestimate their potential influence on the development (and no I'm not referring to the people who are really providing additional knowledge, mostly technical details like pitot tube size, lettering and emblem usage or flight jacket details).

I guess if the underlying paint layer has eroded completely, the paint of the letters should also be gone, not just half transparent.

What's been mostly ignored is that this is the first in-engine shot which seems to show environment mapping on the bare metal parts. That should come in handy if we'll ever see some US planes later during the war... should look nice on a Fiat as well though :)