Friday 2009-12-04 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by luthier

That's correct, it is a Spitfire cockpit, and I did crash into the rigging right after taking the shot.

I must have destroyed at least a dozen perfectly good airplanes trying to take a good screenshot of that ship. Should have done in Top Gun style.

Low and slow will get ya every time...nice update, thanks to the team!

[choctaw111]

Hello Oleg. Thank you for the update.
What are the advantages of DirectX over OpenGL?
I always thought that OpenGL was better.
At least it is in Il2.
Can you please explain?

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

Originally Posted by luthier

That's correct, it is a Spitfire cockpit, and I did crash into the rigging right after taking the shot.

I must have destroyed at least a dozen perfectly good airplanes trying to take a good screenshot of that ship. Should have done in Top Gun style.

Top gun stlyle? Is that upside down while listening to some adrennaline pumping music? Of course in the current il2 you could of flew through the rigging spaces upside down. Shame on you for having so much wonderful detail .Hahahahaha. Thanks again for all your efforts! S~

[SlipBall]

In the first ship damage img it looks like the sea water is on fire. This may not be the case, but it looks good, and was common. Will there be any oil slick or floating debris modeled?

[Spinnetti]

Originally Posted by MD_Wild_Weasel

Top gun stlyle? Is that upside down while listening to some adrennaline pumping music? Of course in the current il2 you could of flew through the rigging spaces upside down. Shame on you for having so much wonderful detail .Hahahahaha. Thanks again for all your efforts! S~

[zapatista]

Hi Oleg,

that spitfire cockpit looks absolutely fantastic !

Question: will we be able to move the pilot head (meaning the view point of the player) in the cockpit forward/backward and then lock that position in place ? (still allowing rotation left/right and up/down, as well as lateral leaning to look beside the nose or fuselage of plane, but keeping the forward/backward head position locked)

my reason for asking is this: in the current il2 the default head position does not let you view the mirror while looking straight ahead, unless you set a wider field of view (which then functions as a zoom-out making all distant planes and ships look smaller)

somebody made a small addon prog for il2-1946 which fixes this, it allows you to move the head position of the pilot to be moved slightly back, letting you see the mirror (but the cockpit gauges then look slightly smaller because you are leaning back, which is fine), but it does not change the "field of view" (FoV) setting, so distant objects like planes and ships still look the correct sizes.(i can look up the url if you are not familiar with that little free addon program)

hope you understand what i mean

thanks for all the hard work

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

Originally Posted by Spinnetti

@spinnetti . good one m8

[zakkandrachoff]

Originally Posted by zakkandrachoff

I think that is a Spit cockpit, not a Hurricane



Oleg never public a Hurricane I or Bf 110 C cockpit yet.

Oleg , very nice upload anyway, nice Hurri external views. I cant wait to see a plane shotting... : will be like Il-2 whit starwars lazer shots or more realistic like little lines of smoke in small machine guns and medium lines smokke in 20mm cannons whit a little bit of fire?

okey , cockpit of Hurricane yes, i miss that, sry oleg



buth the video of Bf 110 dont convince me, need a screenshot

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

i was just thinking to myself.. hmmm something is mising... oh yeah the yoke!LMAO

[Robert]

I'm very impressed with the basic DX9 renders. I wasn't expecting them to look that good. As a matter of fact the shot from within the Spitfire's cockpit is now my desktop. Nice work, Oleg and crew.

Thanks for the update.