..spit weathering
 

thank you kristorf:grin:

yeah, it is realy e shame! we both drowing beautyful spit`s, and then... sometimes i could cry.

I can`t understand why it is not possible to do like this... 0% weathering looks like a spit on a airshow today. and 100% weathering look like the CLOD spitfire! so it goes for everyone!

for me it is not .... i can`t understand!:mad::confused::(

..weathering
 

..but, i`m happy! in this case, my favorit, the Hawker Hurricane, the look is far better!!!:grin:

Hurricane of the 32/ 303 sqn

A beautiful game

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...005_101746.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...005_102310.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...005_102328.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...005_102007.jpg

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Larry. The last DB shot is the best. Thanks.

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..o.k, thank`s Avro!;-)

I believe that they screweing this sim up.
http://www.qmku.info/0.jpghttp://www.qmku.info/7.jpghttp://www.qmku.info/8.jpghttp://www.qmku.info/9.jpghttp://www.ymeu.info/test5.jpg

Trees.
 

Tree shots :)

Heading home..

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-06_00039.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-06_00040.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-06_00043.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-06_00044.jpg




Best Regards,
MB_Avro

Was playing around with combining several smaller shots into one larger one. The idea being to present a long vertical picture with content that sort of unfolds as you scroll down the page. But Imageshack wouldn't let me upload a big enough picture to do that, so...here's the test I did anyway, as large as I could make it, and an all-in-one version.

Heading home too:)

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...007_064936.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...007_065645.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...007_070726.jpg

very nice!

Congrats for your new approach to ingame screenshots. It's spectacular! ;)

Engadin

Thanks. Here's another one.

http://imageshack.us/a/img715/8599/4...230bordere.png

And smaller.

http://imageshack.us/a/img26/8563/4t...27bordered.png

From another angle.


And smaller.

http://imageshack.us/a/img208/2551/5...2bordered1.png

The stitching is a bit rough I must admit, but I find the hardest part is trying to get the AI elements all in the right place at the right time to take the shot(s). There's definitely potential there though for making some epic action-filled panorama's.

I like!

Nice idea Les.

Nice photos Les.

Here's a lucky Escape, after a collision, this Dornier pilot was able to fly his crippled bird home .. although the AI wasn't smart enough to realise the crew needed to bail once over friendly territory.

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/x...ierEscape1.jpg

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Les, I guess today you have made their day to many Stuka pilots with these shots. Yours are the first sort of clean shots in which you can see at the same time the target and the attacking plane with a clear and blue background.

Congrats again!.

Thanks for the compliments. It's not an original idea to combine smaller pictures into a bigger one like this, I'm just playing around with the idea. Making these things is like solving multi-faceted puzzles.

Excuse me while I spam some more images. :)

http://imageshack.us/a/img705/5229/81431714.png

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These shots are all from several runs through an old custom-built mission I loaded up.

http://imageshack.us/a/img708/8157/0...ted230bord.png

http://imageshack.us/a/img267/6307/0...ted28borde.png

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http://imageshack.us/a/img18/3954/04...ghtercrop2.png

http://imageshack.us/a/img401/5765/0...ghtercrop2.png

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And finally...

http://imageshack.us/a/img607/3060/0...ected330bo.png

http://imageshack.us/a/img248/8435/1...ected310bo.png

With a shot to show how big the long pictures could actually be if I could upload them somewhere...

http://imageshack.us/a/img513/2986/0...5borderedt.png

Has been fun. Would be good to set up some action to make full use of the extended viewing space, but it's all a bit time-consuming, so who knows...

This game is full of potential...
http://www.gqth.info/01.jpghttp://www.gqth.info/7.jpghttp://www.gqth.info/8.jpghttp://www.gqth.info/9.jpghttp://www.gqth.info/0.jpg

Thanks for your posts,Les. Very interesting and dramatic.

Best Regards,
MB_Avro

Very interesting use of combined pictures!

Thanks.

Strange. Just noticed the last picture has disappeared. So has it's thumbnail in my list of pictures on Imageshack, but I can still view a small version of it there. Have uploaded it and will try to embed it again.

A few screen shots I use as a desktop background slide show. It's hard to deny that at least the lighting can be pretty.

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A few more.

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Looking at these pictures I just have to say... this sim looks awesome! :-D

A majority here alway complains about the dumbed down graphics since the rewrite. I agreed with that in most parts refering to the former game versions.

But these pics now look quite mature. Apart from that cloud shadows and high clouds are back. The canopy reflections are more intense as well I think. The lighting effects during dusk/dawn are fine.
I am wondering what is now still missing compared to the release version? Just out of my head I could only list the following:
- reflections of clouds/planes etc in the water below (which looked gorgeous, but also a bit unrealistic dont you think? at least in this intensity)
- morning fog over the landscape
- small calibre hit decals!!!

Did I miss something? In my opinion the game now looks stunning and overall I'm satisfied graphics-wise. Correct me if I am wrong! ;-)

[QUOTE=III/JG53_Don;468556...Did I miss something?...[/QUOTE]

There used to be a lighting effect on the planes that made them look more real and connected to their environment. If you look at the front half of the wings and the lower sides of the fuselage of the plane in the picture below, you can see the reflections there that show the effect. Those parts of the plane are in shadow but are still lit up a little bit by ambient light in the planes surroundings. It's no longer in the game and as a result the planes look more flat and artificial. It's probably regarded as trivial and low priority (like navigation and landing lights) but those sort of details can really add up and make the game a lot more immersive and realistic, for some people anyway.

http://imageshack.us/a/img87/4313/se...09still186.jpg

You can see the effect in action (and in original colour) in this video at 00:15 and 00:38. (It's easier to see when watching in expanded view on Youtube. Just noticed too there are lots of cloud reflections in the water as well in that video :))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BaR6qjKF6U

ah I see, thanks Les! Its not totally eye-catching on first sight, so I must have missed it in the early days or just forgot about it :-)
But you're right, it adds a lot to the atmosphere allthough it is more like a unconcious perception

Regarding the long vertical pictures, have you tried imgur.com?

Actually some of the shotsposted above are from older versions. If you wqnt to see how bad they chopped the lighting engine in the recent versions, you have to trey an olser version of the game again.
Tryst me. It's day and night. This new lighting engine makes everything look like it's viewed through sun glasses....and a bad pair of sun glasses.
Dawn and dusk colors are pitiful. All that beautiful orange light, giving such nice natural orqnge hue to everything from clouds, to water, to grass and fields, was replaced with a murky dark gray mess.:(
Reflections are almost gone. The cockpits and skins lost a lot of the natral look. Just ask the skiners how bad did this 'new' engine mess up the colors on older skins. Shadows cloud shadows, and the subtle way shadows affected reflections are also gone.

The best way to see the difference is to find an older version and try it yourself. It's like going ten years back in time.

This is what you get when a lighting engine calibrated by a professionl photographer is "fixed" by artisticly impaired computer programers, that didn't see a sunset out in the country in a too long time.

Let me remind you what we had:



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_143915.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_143931.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_143951.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_144044.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_144038.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_144105.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_144934.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_145440.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_145506.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_145513.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_145520.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...910_145542.jpg

And a few more:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...418_182437.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...902_193341.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...418_182520.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...109_134655.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...109_134429.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...109_131205.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...108_032247.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...107_012530.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...106_153611.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...106_153605.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...106_143505.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...106_142054.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...106_141350.jpg

these pics DO look terrific no question about that! Especially the combination of morning fog and dawn lighting look great :-)

Anyway I'd rather fly a sim with partly dumbed-down graphics like it is now and can actually FLY the sim smoothly than just look at the graphics, shout "WOW, it looks so beautiful" and then exit, because I can't actually use this as a game.

Lets just hope that they are able to get at least some of it back (maybe in the sequel) without a loss in fps.

Great shots Jaws!!...maybe someday that lighting will return :grin:

http://imageshack.us/a/img411/6132/manulito.jpg



Nice ones Jaws, its a pleasure to me, edit that one, thanks!

Is there any way to go to a previous version? Cause Steam doesn´t let you play without having done the update to the last official...

My earlier vershion plays just as well as the current beta, but the beta has a better sound...a real dilemma for me

Ah I miss those graphics. I think when they redid the lighting to get rid of the Shrek green noon hour colors they fudged the beautiful sunrises and sunsets. There was something truely fun about going for a solo morning flight with all the sunlight, clouds, and fog. I really wish they could bring that stuff back but with keeping the sounds and stability of the newer versions of the game.

I guess we can hope the sequel can deliver and return the channel map to greatness?

Nice sunsets , but the sim delivers on action too:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00018.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00021.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00008.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00017.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00024.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00023.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00012.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00016.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-10_00026.jpg

I haven't tried them, but going by their FAQ info their file size limit is lower than Imageshack's, they also have a lower view-it-or-lose-it threshold too. Thanks anyway for the suggestion. If I do more of those kinds of images I'll try lowering the image quality to reduce the file size, as I didn't even think to do that before.

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With the new patch RC2 and a Spitfire MKIa 100oct I have tried and did get to 28100 feet of altitude without any difficulties, without exploding my engine by fiddling with the rudder trim and the pitch, mixture, radiator opening, here is a picture to attest it (add 1000 mb );
http://s13.postimage.org/4zdxiq547/s...012_223612.png
http://postimage.org/image/vx7ukgpr7/
It took me 43 minutes from take of at Upavon to landing at Manston.
:-P

The new Racing Pylon have a "proper DM". :)

http://i50.tinypic.com/2s00jz6.jpg

Sokol1

That is awesome! :grin:

That's no propper DM. :P I saw a few guys, last year, at Red Bull racing here in town blow those pylons like they were feathers. Relly cool.

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Good enough if you consider whats possibly more urgent to fix eh?:)

Winger

That is way cool!

Nice skin!

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Larry, what happened??? :(

That's some bloody strong scaffolding cobber.

They should have used the same material building the Spitty as they did with the car. Would have got out of it without a scratch :)

Delta-wood, for sure.

I too miss the old sunsets and sunrises..the new colors just dont do it in that respect, dumbed down...yes...granted..no more microstutters..however, the colors were sure great before.

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The fastest victory

When taking his hurricane off from speke, a raiding ju 88 crossed the airfield in front of danys gillam (312 sqn), who prompty shot it down. it was the fastest victory of war, and probably of all time.

:mrgreen:

Love it

http://www.military-art.com/mall/images/dhm2078.jpg

http://spitfiresite.com/wp-content/u...st-fastest.jpg

But he was quite lucky, look at his damaged wind shield:

http://www.south-lancs-aviation.bravepages.com/ju88.htm

(scroll)

Anson and Hurricane.
 

A few more pics.

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-18_00013.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-18_00014.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-18_00016.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-18_00021.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-18_00024.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-21_00001.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-21_00003.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-21_00004.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-21_00006.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-21_00007.jpg


Best Regards,
MB_Avro

Fantastic shots avro :D

Love this game :cool: - especially after final patch ;-)

From ATAG, October 25th 2012

http://imageshack.us/a/img19/9590/screenshot14443.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img99/1220/screenshot39352.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img708/4008/screenshot43440.jpg

A strong weather front coming!

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...027_150923.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...027_151545.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...027_145730.jpg

aaaaawww... nice!

Mission one of the RAF campaign. Shot down two Dorniers before expending all ammunition. Pistol whipped a third with my port side Brownings and chased the rest for a few minutes before disengaging and starting the long flight home. Flew a circut before dropping flaps and throttling right back for a nice landing on the grass.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...nshot99455.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...nshot99720.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...shot101205.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...shot107423.jpg

Your just a big spoil-sport Feathered! Lol.:-P Gotta new card yet?

Sadly I believe that they screweing this sim up.
http://www.rdox.info/01.jpghttp://www.rdox.info/02.jpghttp://www.rdox.info/8.jpghttp://www.rdox.info/04.jpg
http://www.rdox.info/9.jpghttp://www.rdox.info/0.jpg

Yep, got the 660ti. Works a treat too. Quite a bargain at $350Au. :)

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Patrull över Göteborgsområdet


J 11 Fiat CR.42, 3.divisionen Flygflottilj F9, sommaren 1942.


http://users.teledisnet.be/web/mfe39146/FlygF9.jpg


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Are you Swedish Rodolphe?

Är du?

Flög du över Vinga fyr? ;)

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Nej ! ;)




T2 i luften.


T2, Heinkel He 115, Flygplan nr 2, 1.Divisionen F2, Gålöbasen.


http://users.teledisnet.be/web/mfe39146/T2.jpg


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Had a play with different early morning sunlight. Also with added lens flare. Loving CloD for screen shots. Also loving the sunrise colours ;)

Horrido! ;)

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9...shot136448.jpg

Walrus....same maker as the Spitfire!
 

I admire the Walrus. Ugly...but brave and useful...similar to Mr. Avro!!

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00001.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00003.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00005.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00008.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00010.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00014.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00016.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00019.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00021.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00025.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00029.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00030.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00031.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00033.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00034.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00036.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00038.jpg

Hero !!
http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00041.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00042.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00047.jpg

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http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00050.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00051.jpg

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http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00055.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00059.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00060.jpg

http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-30_00061.jpg


Best Regards,
MB_Walrus.

Nice to be able to make the odd skin again.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...nshot22848.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...nshot23272.jpg

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http://users.teledisnet.be/web/mfe39146/6538.jpgWIP

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http://users.teledisnet.be/web/mfe39146/6538a.jpg

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Gravity free zone
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0-27_00006.jpg

(.... after a botched takeoff- strnge things happened at the scene of the crash...)

Spitfire intercept over London docks during an eraly morning Luftwaffe Raid.

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...esunrise-2.jpg

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...esunrise-3.jpg

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...tfireDawn2.jpg

I like this one. The il2 series has always created a realistic sun.

Just like an actual one. Congrats. :)

This is, so far, my absolute favourite screenshot I've taken in Il2:

http://i.imgur.com/dToER.jpg

It's just so relaxing.

MP, love the head on with the heat haze around the stubs

Hope you don't mind..

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/2622/cod3f.jpg

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http://users.teledisnet.be/web/mfe39146/HermannG.jpg

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Yes but what that image does not represent well is the unbelievable shaking that was occurring! :D

Hahaha, if this game had motion blur that screenshot would've been like a Van Gogh painting.

Abandon ship!!
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...3-12-23-22.jpg

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...3-12-25-22.jpg

So, none of the screenshots to-date are any good because they don't depict the real world?

There is a difference between art and reality you don't seem to understand.

Binky9

looks to me like you didn't get what he wanted to say... (or in which way he wanted to say it....)

So much of what the writer wanted to communicate gets lost when put on a forum. Maybe he can enlighten me.

I thought the screenshot was great, as submitted, without any comments about the technical aspects needed. What, after all, was the point?

Binky9

What needs to be understood is that Cpwn and I were flying G50s for laughs, and we didn't quite have the engine controls down pat. As such both of our aircraft were shuddering so badly we feared engine failure at any moment. Somehow we managed to do a whole sortie, even shooting down a spitfire, all whilst getting impromptu butt massages from the engine.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps6a54c45d.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psd90bb1f3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psef0afd55.jpg

Brilliant Kristoff !

hello, or can I download your beautiful skins?.;)

SQB hit it on the head in his reply, I didn't mean to offend you, it was just an inside joke and a play on his comment of "It's just so relaxing."