Friday 2010-09-03 Dev. update and Discussions

[Abbeville-Boy]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

luKe, we are trying to make the game better for you me old duck, I bet your one of those guys who would never go on strike for more pay, but take the same payrise as those that did make the effort. No offence of course.

you and philip.ed have not worked a day in your life's your both here 24/7 --- no offence of course

[furbs]

The only way to check the size of the pilot is to see a pic with him standing next to the hurri...luthier??

landscape looking better but..and i know its WIP before anyone chips in...but the colours still off for the fields...looks more like france than southern England.

Everything else looks great to me.

cheers.

[peterwoods@supanet.com]

Agree with comment elsewhere that:
1. The train is out of scale with road(s) which are at best B class but probably C.

Compare this rather crude edit with original.



2. Train tracks crossing roads always have what is known in UK as "Level Crossings" if not bridged.

[David603]

Originally Posted by peterwoods@supanet.com

Agree with comment elsewhere that:
1. The train is out of scale with road(s) which are at best B class but probably C.

Compare this rather crude edit with original.

Now the rest of the landscape is out of scale with the train and the roads. Look at the trees, and there are two crossings with the length of the train. I am still convinced the problem is that the roads are too wide, the train was almost certainly to scale.

[brando]

Originally Posted by David603

Now the rest of the landscape is out of scale with the train and the roads. Look at the trees, and there are two crossings with the length of the train. I am still convinced the problem is that the roads are too wide, the train was almost certainly to scale.

This is unfortunate in that no English railway would have road crossings with no gates or signals, whatever class the roads were. This kind of arrangement was in place by the late nineteenth century, keeping roads and rails entirely separate for safety reasons. As mentioned, trains ran on embankments or in cuttings and the bridge was the most common form of crossing, rail over road or vice versa. Most of the railway system was fenced, to keep the public and farm stock off the lines - in fact this separation was enforced by laws laid down in the 19th century - and are still in place in modern times.

Maybe it's expecting too much from a game that is really devoted to flight and aerial combat for the railway system to look authentic. It's not going to put me off buying or flying SoW-BoB, because so much of the rest is looking so good.

Originally Posted by Abbeville-Boy

you and philip.ed have not worked a day in your life's your both here 24/7 --- no offence of course

lol good one mate, that made me laugh

[dflion]

All pics looking great. As you mentioned this is still a WIP and their will be many more tweaks before the first release.
I am just grateful we have the basis for a very worthy successor to IL-2 Sturmovik and as SOW develops over the years ahead we will see many graphic improvements which will eventually stop all the 'whining' (I hope?).
Keep up the good work, hope Oleg is back on deck soon. I would be interested in seeing some more FMB tools in future updates and of course a video.
DFLion

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Abbeville-Boy

you and philip.ed have not worked a day in your life's your both here 24/7 --- no offence of course

All we can say is this; we were sent from a future and this future did not have SoW.

Originally Posted by philip.ed

All we can say is this; we were sent from a future and this future did not have SoW.

lol