Friday 2010-09-03 Dev. update and Discussions

[Kyrios]

Originally Posted by luthier

So this is what you guys are asking for?

I'll ship it that way you know. Try and stop me.

Cm'on, now he's standing up in the cockpit
As previously said, the pilot looks too small rather than too low.
But most of the pics posted make me think the pilots will bang their heads on the canopy whenever negative Gs are involved

As for the rest, it's looking good, hopefully quality will not kill FPS... ^^

[philip.ed]

Luthier will have his revenge....

[Bloblast]

Originally Posted by luthier

So this is what you guys are asking for?

I'll ship it that way you know. Try and stop me.

This makes things clearer:

[Zappatime]

Clearly the guy in the cockpit is sat very high - the canopy would chop the top of his head off if closed!. So maybe as mentioned in prevoius posts it was adjustable for taxing, especially. Size of his (uncovered) head relative to cockpit/canopy can be gauged here as well though.

[OldFrenchy]

People tended to be a little smaller in those days, the average height of a man being 5' 8".
John Wayne towers above those people in any case.

[LukeFF]

Some people's propensity on this forum to bitch and moan about anything never ceases to amaze me.

[Sutts]

Thanks Luthier, looking great.

Love the peeled back skin on the bomber. The crew look very incapacitated...very well done....no need for blood at all.

The leaves on the trees look great too.

The hurri pilot's head does look a bit on the small side but it may just be the lack of the helmet. I do think a lot of the real pictures we see feature a raised seat for taxying purposes. Your point regarding the gun sight was very well put I thought.

I hate to say this but I think the country roads are way too wide (when compared to the train carriage). You're hard pushed to fit two modern UK spec. cars side by side on many UK country lanes. I guess that would make a road of about 16-18ft wide. The main line rail carriages of the day were 60-70ft long and the carriage appears to easily fit within the width of the road. No biggie though.

Cheers

[AndyJWest]

I'm fairly sure that both Spitfires and Hurricanes had a lever on the right side of the cockpit next to the seat which was used to adjust its height in flight. I'm tempted to suggest this is added to the sim, for realism (assuming it hasn't been done already). On the other hand, I'll be happy to do without, if we get to see SoW:BoB sooner.

[Icewolf]

this is my nephew at a farmers shed in saskatchewan ,canada. this hurricane is fully operational and the farmer flew it himself 3 times before parking it .
my nephew is 6 feet tall.he has no idea what model this is but I told him about this debate and he mentioned that he is not sitting on a parachute which I believe the pilots would be, thus the difference of clearance of the head.

the farmer has since sold the plane

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Bloblast

This makes things clearer:

Actually, zoomed in like that, i think the team have done a good job on the pilot model. The angle of the picture, with the reflection on the back of the canopy, can create the illusion the canopy is a lot bigger than it really is.


And regarding landscape; guys, this is soooo WIP Oleg said that the terrain would be almost photorealistic, and I just think this shows the team messing with textures before increasing their resolution...In any case, the terrain in WoP can look very good (debateable?) but I am sure that the textures from WoP could be placed into SoW in some form. I don't say this to say that this should happen, but to show that these txctures are far from final as the SoW has a lot more to offer. I'm confusing myself here; but I think I have made my point credible in one form or other...