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Originally Posted by bongodriver (Post 253998)

First I wasn't aiming at you......just in case I have yet again offended.

To an extent yes I want accuracy, but colour of grass discussions are getting silly, it is obvious that a majority a saying it needs to change.....thats fair enough, I'm all for democracy.

No offense since I agree with your sentiment entirely. 'Getting silly', though? Discussions about the grass colour have been going on for months... Can be entertaining reading! ;)

Yes the greens are off...

I don't know what's with all the talk of monitor calibration & such. Yes most of us have cheap TN panels, sometimes badly calibrated. But when i can see photos / films and they look alright and Il2 doesn't i'm thinking maybe the problem it's not the monitor.

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Originally Posted by jimbop (Post 253966)

Not too sure about this. Whilst rapeseed oil only became a human food after WW2 it has been used for industrial purposes like lubrication and as a biofuel (lamps etc) for centuries. I think it could even have been grown widely during the war for precisely these purposes but am not sure about this.

After WW2 the erucic acid was bred down to levels which made rapeseed oil fit for humans. Further refinements including the removal of bitter glucosinolates were done much later in the late 70's/early 80's to generate canola which certainly is a modern crop (and getting more modern with today's much more precise modifications).

after speaking to several farmers about this who are all local to the area, and that i work for, they all said that rape wasn't grown in kent until well after the war.

Yea, the daylight colours seem overexposed or something. It looks like happy marshmellow people are going to jump out and start singing a sing-a-long.

1C Maddox: Vegetation of Britain.

Gardens of Dover.

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Can be entertaining reading!

can't argue with that...:)

hi bongodriver, check pm's;)

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Originally Posted by JG27_PapaFly (Post 253950)

Color and gamma settings should be customisable ingame, but in such a way that nobody can draw advantages from some extreme settings in online gameplay.

Can't you customise some of the settings in your gfx driver specifically for this game? I use custom gfx settings for IL2FB in my nvidia driver, however i don't remember whether gamma and color settings can be changed.

This wouldn't be a good idea because the aircraft colours and sky are fine as they are, it's just the landscapes that are too bright and pale a green to match the real thing. If we adjust out monitors to darken the land, we will also affect the sky and aircraft.

I do a bit of gliding and I would described the South of England in summer as having greens that vary from bright green to dark green, with the trees generally appearing darker than the fields.

Again, here is the SW of England in late summer from about 2,500' and RoF's colours for comparison.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...g/102_2902.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...3-18-16-78.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...3-16-07-16.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...1-55-45-10.jpg

I was watching a well known UK tv show, just as I was thinking about this issue. I guess that this is Jersey Island, but thats not far off the mark...

It looks to me personally a bit like in a cartoon.

If one would black+whiten all textures slightly, it would look perfect.

Bu this is only my personal opinion.