Friday 2010-01-22 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[Galagonya]

Those complaining about the washed out cockpit and lack of contrast between green and black coloring, pls check one of the earlier update screenshots at Foo.bar's site.

http://fooblog.mexxoft.com/wp-conten...0/grab0100.jpg

You can see that in this vid you simply don't see those parts were this contrast is clearly visible. I think the weathering is realistic for a plane spending even just months in combat situation, many hours under sun, etc. I definitely would not expect a look what you get when taking a picture with flash inside a pristine restored plane.

This gonna be an awesome sim. Excellent job.

[Bakelit]

Lovely eye opening video. Thanks.

[virre89]

Awsome video lutiher and screens.
Great works guys love it all the way, and if you tend to leak more videos please do so with the sound i can't wait to hear the engine roar as well , anyway Good luck this project looks great.

[Flanker35M]

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Baron, not an e-peen contest here, just expressing my opinion on the shake And no-one needs to fly a Spitfire or Bf109 to achieve same results, a plane is a plane. Sure weight and speed plays a role, but I think you know what I mean. I got your point and enjoyed the video to the full, finally some moving gfx from SoW. It is just that so much was "camera based" in IL2 and was plaing wrong, like distorted POV within less than 1m etc. Camera is not human eye combined with brains that "fix" the view etc. So I really hope SoW has learned from this and does not make "one eye open 50mm lens thing" again and again

So to please you all and brown nosey, with extreme sarcasm..Yeah oh I came squirted my pants In reality: damn nice video. Happy?

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Baron, not an e-peen contest here, just expressing my opinion on the shake And no-one needs to fly a Spitfire or Bf109 to achieve same results, a plane is a plane. Sure weight and speed plays a role, but I think you know what I mean. I got your point and enjoyed the video to the full, finally some moving gfx from SoW. It is just that so much was "camera based" in IL2 and was plaing wrong, like distorted POV within less than 1m etc. Camera is not human eye combined with brains that "fix" the view etc. So I really hope SoW has learned from this and does not make "one eye open 50mm lens thing" again and again

So to please you all and brown nosey, with extreme sarcasm..Yeah oh I came squirted my pants In reality: damn nice video. Happy?

Dont get me wrong, i relize "critizism" is essential to get the best game possible.

I just think there is a place and time for everything and this threadh is the place for oooooh and ahhhs only (kidding)

Finally seeing vids is a major leap towards getting this game up and running.


Its getting closer, fast.

[Tigertooo]

i knew it would be great, i know it will be great, it is great already
All my support goes to the whole team: Thanks

[DB605]

Fantastic video! Headshaking, reflections, shadows and all looks very good. How about similar video from Messerschmitt cockpit next?

[AdMan]

Originally Posted by Galagonya

Those complaining about the washed out cockpit and lack of contrast between green and black coloring, pls check one of the earlier update screenshots at Foo.bar's site.

http://fooblog.mexxoft.com/wp-conten...0/grab0100.jpg

You can see that in this vid you simply don't see those parts were this contrast is clearly visible. I think the weathering is realistic for a plane spending even just months in combat situation, many hours under sun, etc. I definitely would not expect a look what you get when taking a picture with flash inside a pristine restored plane.

This gonna be an awesome sim. Excellent job.

colors are a little more pronounced in the screenies but overall it's still a little too gray, the panel not quite black enough and green not quite green enough.

color might still have fine tuning to undergo and maybe in a less weathered cockpit it will be look better. I myself, am still holding out for progressively weathered cockpits, although it will not be I can't stress enough how over the top bad ass it would be to have this at some point. Even if there were only 10 or so progressively weathered skins that changed after a certain number of flight hours, battles seen, etc. With only 10 stages of damage it would probably be best if they changed in between missions, but it would still be cool and if were animated in real time like the exteriors it would be unbelievably awesome.

and I mean awesome

unbelievably A W E S O M E

is someone taking notes here?

[nearmiss]

I respect all the graphic wish lists, but to be forthright. I'd prefer more tools that let us work with the game play, i.e, programmable mission buiilder, probablistic programming tools for AI performance, weather programming, AI that can't see through clouds, sensible physics, etc.

The stuff that really makes the sim viable is the gameplay. Sure all the graphics is a plus, but delaying the SOW to satisfy all the graphic wishlists will put us even further release of SOW.

We are still all doing this sim with 10 year old graphics and enjoying it. There are plenty of non-graphic things that would give this old hound dog alot of punch.

TD is planning a multi-object editor ability in FMB, AI performance is being tweaked. These kinds of improvements are improvements, graphic improvements are great... but you get used to them pretty darn quick.

[Flanker35M]

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Nearmiss..100% agree with you. Graphics are just part of the game. The rest is what makes it good like you mentioned. I prefer playability over eyecandy