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

[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?

[phoenix1963]

Please remember Oleg, that visibility in SE England is often limited by haze. Even in good weather it is often fairly hazy here and was more so in the coal fire burning days of the 1940s close to London. Also trees tend to merge together in the distance.

Regards,
56RAF_phoenix

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

[deadmeat313]

The picture of the Messerschmitt 109 cockpit ^_^

*right click*
*set as desktop background*


T.

[T}{OR]

These shots are breathtaking. Thanks for sharing them!

[322Sqn_Dusty]

Amazing,

Will there be Presskits available as with the first Il2? Just after realease our group was pleased to show Il2 on a national event..imagine how we struggled with the new planes and behaviors.

Are there shots of the Tiger Moth pits? I've had a nice oppertunity to handle a 1941 Moth.