Just my thoghts on the latest Screens update +examples offuture hopes for SoW

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Oh gawd, In game means all things will appear 'in game', they may add more stuff to it, 'in game' does not mean 'with a place holder background'.

Engine rendered in the engine and indicated as such (and I believe the list above are all marked by Oleg as being rendered by the engine) are "in-game". Not all features are necessary turned on and final quality will probably be far different.

The difference between what we're seeing and the standard fare of video game makers showing off their work is that Oleg isn't afraid (although maybe he should be) to show off early work in progress where all of the hard work has already been done but not everything is close to final quality. We know that all shots so far have been done in the basic renderer as well ... Oleg says that is what the DX9 version is like but I suspect that is DX9 with features turned off.

Some shots are rendered in-engine but with a placeholder background. Sort of like the object viewer in IL-2. That can also be considered in-game or in-engine...

We could all split hairs on this mind you

good reply Icefire , I will take that onboard.

[zaelu]

I just think SOW is further delayed that's why you don't see much ingame graphics.

I remember Oleg said years ago that it will be OpenGL then last year turned out that is DirectX... so the entire graphic engine was redone. Many objects from the first "shots" of SoW where lower quality than some mods today... now we see models of bugs climbing grass... or something.

I think SoW is still greatly WiP and is my personal assumption that the graphic engine is not completely shown do to the obvious fact that is not done yet.

Sure you have self shadowing and few other touches but those can be made in any graphic engine you buy at second hand on the market... I mean is not a complete graphic engine, just bits of hardware capabilities. As a side note... that thing with no AA due to HDR is not correct anymore for new graphic cards from nVidia... I think ATI didn't had the issue when they introduced HDR.

So... simply... bluntly put. There are no ingame screenshots and movies cause there is no game yet. There are objects and mechanical stuff they can't show in pics (like wind and AI) but that's all.

I think I just hope the project will not be dumped some day due to economical happiness from the world...

[furbs]

careful Zaelu...people have been lynched here for speaking like that

(spot on post BTW)

100% agree, but in an optimistic way if that helps my defence at the Kangeroo court.

[furbs]

nope...it wont

[robtek]

Some people just can't see anybody happy with the things as they are and have to pour their pessimistic dog-turd to pull everybody down to their level.
It is just boring, as them are going the easy way, as it is much easier to gain enemys as to gain friends.