Friday 2010-03-19 Screenshots and Discussion Thread

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Insuber

Hi Oleg,

Are you already modeling the different weapons ? I'd like to avoid all the debates of Il2 regarding machineguns, cannons etc., and hence suggest you to use the "weapon effectiveness tables" of the quarry.nildram.co.uk site, by Anthony Williams, to balance each MG against the others.

Using a competent and public source will reduce the polemics, hopefully.

regards,
insuber

We prefer physics and look in comparison.
Yes we model already weapon.

[Kurfürst]

Great job on the Blenheim cocpit! I especially like the map, it makes the whole thing look much less "sterile".

Though I noticed on that first picture (Blenheim) that the terrain textures are rather low resolution. I am not sure if this was because using low settings for terrain, or is this how it will be in the final, but I would really prefer if BoB:SoW would ship with really large resolution textures, even if current PCs cant handle it, and will use medium settings. BoB:SoW will probably have a lifespan of 5 years like Il2, and later on likely there will be no capacity to do this again (ie. add high res textures for ground)... but PCs will be able to run it by that time.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by Kurfürst

Though I noticed on that first picture (Blenheim) that the terrain textures are rather low resolution. I am not sure if this was because...

3D tools/model viewer.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

We prefer physics and look in comparison.
Yes we model already weapon.

Oleg,

Sorry to bother you again, if I understand correctly, you model the physics of projectiles impacts against various parts of the plane, as you explained some time ago. It's OK, can't do differently as far as I know.

But when you say that "you look in comparison", did you mean that the A Williams (or other) tables will be used to check tests, and balance -fine tune the damage models?



As an engineer by education, I like the TinyTim approach to evaluate the relative strength of the weapons, in a simple and objective way:

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...9271044048/p/2

Regards,
Insuber