Friday 2009-10-23 Screenshots Update discussion thread

Oleg do you plan to show any 'In game' shots of SOW in the near future, for example a formation of heinkels or a screen shot of a dogfight over England, something where we can get a true picture of what your creating. I know you said these recent screens were 'in game' but they appear to be WIP shots rather than shots taken from a running game.

Many Thanks.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Oleg do you plan to show any 'In game' shots of SOW in the near future, for example a formation of heinkels or a screen shot of a dogfight over England, something where we can get a true picture of what your creating. I know you said these recent screens were 'in game' but they appear to be WIP shots rather than shots taken from a running game.

Many Thanks.

?...they seem to all have (grab) in file name...I think that they are in-game shots

oh ok, I meant from the battle of britian aspect the original concept of the sim.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

oh ok, I meant from the battle of britian aspect the original concept of the sim.

Yes I would like to see England from above as well

[luthier]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

luthier(quote)
Did the Athlon system have a desent frame rate? I ask because I'm running a slightly stronger Athlon system now...and it would be nice to not have to do an up-grade

It's way too early to gauge frame rates and specs. Many things that will be eating up FPS in the final release aren't yet running at full capacity. Most others are yet to be optimized, meaning they're eating up more FPS than they will in the release.

The framerate we get on these specs today doesn't matter. No one can guess now at the framerate we will have in the release under what graphic settings. I could say what framerate we hope to have on this machine in the release, but a lot of people have a very twisted idea of what Work In Progress means, so I won't.

Originally Posted by SlipBall

?...they seem to all have (grab) in file name...I think that they are in-game shots

They are indeed. The build is very stable and there's a lot more going on that what you see on the screenshots.

[tagTaken2]

A promising start to what I hope will be regular updates. There's been a couple of great sims come out recently, and I'd wondered if maybe subject matter of BoB might be a bit tired, but the moment that first Spitfire cockpit shot opened, I've got all my previous excitement back.

Originally Posted by luthier

It's way too early to gauge frame rates and specs. Many things that will be eating up FPS in the final release aren't yet running at full capacity. Most others are yet to be optimized, meaning they're eating up more FPS than they will in the release.

Il-2 seemed to be pretty optimized code, have faith that BoB will be scalable in terms of graphics. Either way, I've got $1500 set aside specifically for new PC on release

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by luthier

It's way too early to gauge frame rates and specs. Many things that will be eating up FPS in the final release aren't yet running at full capacity. Most others are yet to be optimized, meaning they're eating up more FPS than they will in the release.

The framerate we get on these specs today doesn't matter. No one can guess now at the framerate we will have in the release under what graphic settings. I could say what framerate we hope to have on this machine in the release, but a lot of people have a very twisted idea of what Work In Progress means, so I won't.



They are indeed. The build is very stable and there's a lot more going on that what you see on the screenshots.

Luthier,

I really appreciate your answers, thank you for taking the time. I liked most of the pics, and particularly the lighting fx and the shadows.

The Spit cockpit is incredible, I've never seen such a photorealistic object in a flight sim ... it makes even the Il-2 best cockpits look shamefully poor. The workload on the game programmers must be enormous, I can better understand now why so much time to develop BoB ...

Ground objects are very detailed, but the wooden surfaces (e.g. control tower) are not too natural, they need improved texture/color IMHO. The control barrack is beatiful, with objects inside, with their shadows and lights.

The truck below the tree shadows of pic110, with light spots from branches, is gorgeous ... I can't imagine how CPU consuming is it though, if it will dynamically updated.

I noticed that clouds are of different types and height in the same area, is the weather system dynamic ?

Smoke looks greatly improved from Il-2, is there some sort of particle management ?

Planes are good, rivets and doorbays and all ... too good if they will be the same in-game.

Terrain is VERY WIP IMHO ... so no comment on that. But trees look promising.


For a WIP it looks promising indeed. Keep up the good work, it looks like you're closer to the goal.

Best regards,
Insuber

[Necrobaron]

Very nice, gentlemen!
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1YoungGerda

[CRO_Adriatic]

Really nice update!
Nice smoke, cliffs, sunset, cockpit, threes, glass reflection, sun, clouds, shadow...

I would like that from cliffs to water are only 1-3 meter of ground , and also rock terrain, but ok if it is imagined as sand beach...

Cockpit is too good. If you ask me, weather model is more important than visual, but to sell it, it haves to look great, I hope you will find some middle point of that

[Lucas_From_Hell]

EDIT: Nevermind.

Well, got your point, Tree.

There was a 110 and a Spitfire. I'm happy with just that

But yes, I would also love seeing those Heinkels all around (but I don't know if the computers used would hold it steady with some 100 bombers and gunners and bombs and England and everything else).

As someone said, there's one thing I would really love to see: the shadow of a 109 over that Spitfire cockpit. THAT would be awesome.