Friday 2010-06-25 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Buster_Dee]

I would think engine changes would have some effect on seperating visual deterioration from performance. Would it outstrip other factors (reskinning a badly patched tail. Replacing bent ailerons. New prop. A run through the car wash), who knows? Current solution works for me.

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by major_setback

My first thought also was that it doesn't look very English, especially with that roof. I agree that it looks like Foo'bar's modelling style. Foo'bar, is it German?
Maybe it is a French fire station? We haven't seen many (or any?) French buildings yet.

Yes it is a german fire station, built in 1934. MG is trying to take over as much of my buildings for BoB as possible. But since SoW will hopefully face more theatres later nothing will be built for nothing

[Sturm_Williger]

Great pictures and wonderful to see how SoW is progressing.

One thing that caught my eye particularly is the sea in the Condor shot. Water has come a long way since IL2, looks totally realistic. Great work !

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

Yes it is a german fire station, built in 1934. MG is trying to take over as much of my buildings for BoB as possible. But since SoW will hopefully face more theatres later nothing will be built for nothing

Well, I hope that doesn't mean that we will see German buildings in England. It will look terrible! To English eyes they look completely wrong, and it is immediately noticed.


I thought Jutocsa was working on fire stations - I sent him some images (only from the net) a long time ago.

Really all that is needed for a model is to put a couple of red doors on any building:





..or for a small one. The one on the right here:



or



Better images:

http://www.google.se/images?hl=sv&cl...ord&tbs=isch:1

or




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[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by major_setback

Well, I hope that doesn't mean that we will see German buildings in England. (...)

I don't think so

[Richie]

Thank you for clearing the subject up about the Hurricane spinner Friendly_flyer and major_ setback

[Fltlt_HardBall]

Originally Posted by Tbag

Check 3:14 of this vid:

Wow, they even had a fart regulator. Those British thought of everything!

[Blackdog_kt]

This is getting better and better. Now, i just hope that by "mid-range PC with an older GPU" luthier means a previous generation quad core with a late series nVidia 8800...this would make my i7 920/Ati 4890 look more than adequate for running it. Or he could mean an i5 with an Ati 4870/nVidia 285 range GPU, in which case the performance difference wouldn't be that huge and i'd have to scale down on some detail, because i'm just engaging in wishful thinking

In any case, i'm glad to see that a mid-range PC running SoW can reach an acceptable compromise between performance and visual quality. In fact, that's exactly what i used to do back in the day when i couldn't run IL2 at max detail...i would use max detail on aircraft and low on the ground textures.

[334th_Gazoo]

Message to Olaf and his Crew... I think you are the definition of Genius...
Thank you for all of your hard work!

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by KOM.Nausicaa

I guess that is exactly one of those 'things' in the user options to gain higher FPS -- blurriness vs sharpness of the ground can perhaps be adapted to your system in the config. That would be a neat idea actually.

Maybe Oleg can say something about this ?

Sharpness of the ground from more then birds fly altitude will depends of video card memory.

On the PC where these shots are done it isn't enough currently.