Friday 2010-06-04 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by jermin

The lighting effect is just gorgeous!

Couple of questions for Oleg:

1. Are you planning on a testing tool to aid those FM and WM testers to test top speed, climb rate, turn rate of a specific aircraft or muzzle velocity and shell dispersion for a spicific weapon.

2. Is the beta testing Team Daidalos metioned earlier has something to do with BoB?

At the moment I can't say anything.
I only know that FM will test at least two real pilots and one of them - australian with experience to fly old timers, my very good friend .

[SlipBall]

The shots look great, the damage is very real looking. I am still wondering if the aircraft rubber tires can be damaged "flat tire"...thanks for the up-date

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

The shots look great, the damage is very real looking. I am still wondering if the aircraft rubber tires can be damaged "flat tire"...thanks for the up-date

Yes. Can be damaged. Main wheels tires.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Yes. Can be damaged. Main wheels tires.

That's exactly the answer I expected from you...it will certainly make for some interesting landings and memories

[philip.ed]

Beautiful screens Oleg, the best so far. Tose fields are looking amazing too.
Are the landscape shots from up-above still showing WIP terrain?

Excellent work.

[DK-nme]

Amazingly beatiful. Astonishing, I'm speachless and lack the words for it...

Looking sooo foreward to the release of this sim (have done that since 2005). Looks so photo-realistic...

This might have been discussed before, but will the wellington become flyable someday in a later patch?


DK-nme

[150GCT_Veltro]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Are the landscape shots from up-above still showing WIP terrain?

This is a good question.

The land textures will give us the 50% (or more) of the immersion, as for the clouds.

[leggit]

This just looks better and better each week...i haven't looked forward to a game release so much in years.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Are the landscape shots from up-above still showing WIP terrain?

Excellent work.

Yes still wip. Maybe in the next update will show how it is really looks.
We still have some problems with the far distance for the trees (not our own engine for them...) - some bugs, so simply we switch them off on such great distances together with other objects on the surface, so it looks not like it should on the great distance.

Ok... today I already can't answer interesting or these that I can answer questions. Need to run to dantist . Will be back online on Monday.

PS. rememer one thing, as more we add on the great ditances - more power we need for calculations We have very close to real things calculation of visibility in athmosphere with the best settings... be ready if you like to get all things maxed out

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Yes still wip. Maybe in the next update will show how it is really looks.
We still have some problems with the far distance for the trees (not our own engine for them...) - some bugs, so simply we switch them off on such great distances together with other objects on the surface, so it looks not like it should on the great distance.

Ok... today I already can't answer interesting or these that I can answer questions. Need to run to dantist . Will be back online on Monday.

PS. rememer one thing, as more we add on the great ditances - more power we need for calculations We have very close to real things calculation of visibility in athmosphere with the best settings... be ready if you like to get all things maxed out

Sounds great. I was playing WoP the other day, and I noticed how effective the terrain looks, whether it's realistic or not.
Is there any-other sim where the developers talk in-depth to the community like this? Bravo Oleg, bravo

@Oleg, in Il-2 there are repetition effects caused on maps by the textures used. I think this can be avoided to an extent if the map-maker spends time to paint the textures on. Will the terrain in SoW be completely random? So basically, will each field be different from the next? Or will we still have some repetition to the layout of the textures?