Friday 2010-08-06 Dev. update and Discussions

[tourmaline]

Originally Posted by kendo65

For the record, I've checked out the pics on my home PC monitor (Samsung 2232BW) and the trees in Pic 1 look fine.

Of course, the rest of you already knew that

Strange, viewed on 15" bog standard monitor earlier, the foreground trees at bottom of Pic 1 really did look like they were floating 'magic carpet'-like 50 feet above the ground

Very excited about the work being done with crew animations. Can't wait to see the videos.

Have to respectfully disagree with those who voice the opinion that graphics don't matter too much, or matter less than FM, DM, AI, etc, etc. For me graphics are just as important in creating a realistic and believable experience.

Il2 already does a pretty good job in FM, DM, AI and is being improved again in 4.10 (and beyond). Where it falls down (by 2010 standards) is graphics.

Also - at the risk of reigniting a recent discussion/argument - SOW will not be fulfilling the same function as a military-grade training simulator, where the trainee's appreciation of the environment's graphical quality is not an important issue. Let the die-hards scoff, but I and many others 'play' flight-sims and computer games primarily for enjoyment and relaxation and only secondarily as a 'serious' learning tool, though that is a great aspect of the experience as well.

To release a technically superb but graphically compromised game/sim in 2010 is commercial suicide and a mistake that the developers will not make.

That's because the trees are casting a shadow, hence they appear to be floating in space...Especially from that height.

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by tourmaline

That's because the trees are casting a shadow, hence they appear to be floating in space...Especially from that height.

Absolutely, yes. It's just that on one screen it looks believable and realistic, while viewed on another it looked really off and bad.

May have hit on a reason for some of the disagreements going on around here - ie people viewing the same shots on different quality monitors