Friday 2010-03-26 Screenshots and Discussion Thread

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

Thanks for the update Oleg!

The lights and shadows are fantastic! Trees looking very good!

Happy Easter, everyone!

Skarphol

+1

[Darkbluesky]

Very nice lighting and terrain relief modelling. With the grass, final trees and AA it will look really nice. Thank you.

[Qpassa]

It looks great

[Feuerfalke]

Very nice!

Again, it's especially the things behind the screenshots, that are most interesting. Looks great, even though it's WIP! VERY promising!

[Alien]

Thanks for update Oleg! Will there be chance to fly dornier on release day?

[major_setback]

The WiP trees are of very high quality, and the level of detail is amazing.

But what are they? Some sort of tropical tree that doesn't look right close up, and makes the landscape look foreign from a distance (to my English eyes it looks like it might be Australia).

I know this is WiP, which makes this the right time and place to say that trees of that quality will have to be good representations of English types. Otherwise the whole landscape will look wrong.
Most people would not recognise more than one or two species, but everyone will notice if the general look of them from afar is wrong.

I hope this area isn't overlooked because it is deemed less relevant in a flight sim...a little effort with getting the right look, and correct species of tress will make all the difference to the overall look of the game.

They are excellent tress though; excellent WiP trees that is and I am very impressed by them. The development updates are certainly something to look forward to these days!

[Sutts]

Thanks for the update Oleg. Love the trees.

I agree, it would be nice at this early stage if you tried to get them to look like oak, ash and beech.

[Igo kyu]

Thoughts about the images, particularly the first and the last.

In the first, the building on the left has a roof that to me is too steep, you might get a rare one that steep but they would be very rare in England I think.

In the last image there is a road visible out of the window, does that road have white lines on it? I'm pretty sure that lines on country roads used to be rare, and became more common as I've grown older, and the technology to make them has improved. I think in the old days of WW2 there would have been very few lines on country roads, possibly almost none. Maybe on a second look they are wear and tear markings, that would be very good.

The windows on the buildings look flat, painted on (which they obviously really are, but still), it would be better if they looked as if they were fittings that had been fitted into the walls of the buildings, as real windows are.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

In the last image there is a road visible out of the window, does that road have white lines on it? I'm pretty sure that lines on country roads used to be rare, and became more common as I've grown older, and the technology to make them has improved. I think in the old days of WW2 there would have been very few lines on country roads, possibly almost none. Maybe on a second look they are wear and tear markings, that would be very good.

Tools/Viewer, right there slapped across the image...

[Richie]

I like the leaves up close. I think the movie makers are going to go bananas with this sim. If it sells well I hope we get to see many movies on all fronts.