Friday 2010-01-29 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[Freycinet]

Originally Posted by kendo65

This is something where il2 really fell down - it had (afaik) just the one standard bail out sequence optimised for fighters, so in bombers you would see the crew 'materialise' mid-fuselage in sequence and then even fall through the ac body on their way down.

"Fell down", if you expect a program to be able to show everything, totally disregarding the hardware limitations. There was a reason for the animation being rather crude, you know...

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Freycinet

"Fell down", if you expect a program to be able to show everything, totally disregarding the hardware limitations. There was a reason for the animation being rather crude, you know...

I know - wasn't meant as a criticism of il2 (difficult to cover all the details when you're focusing on making your point). Totally right - in its time and with the hardware available il2 was great (and still is ...back-covering ).

It's just that 10 years on things have changed and its inherent visual 'compromises' start to grow more irritating in comparison with more modern games.