Friday 2010-09-03 Dev. update and Discussions

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Osprey

... In stock IL2 you will have a fat red 100ft of fireball coming out of the back of the aircraft and I have some small concern that this will be repeated according to the pictures i've seen so far. When you use the effects pack fires are radically different.

There's quite a few fires in this video
...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La3qJ4sptuE

Now there are many instances of fire in this video that match the effects shown in your clip, but it can be more spectacular. Check out 3:42, 3:59, 4:16 and 4:25.

All these locations in the video show 100+ foot plumes of flame that match up with the screenshots posted by Oleg and Co.

We need to remember that SOW is not IL2 (stock, modded or otherwise) and it would sad if we missed out on a historical portrail of air combat because they were labeled too 'Holywood'.

Cheers!

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Now there are many instances of fire in this video that match the effects shown in your clip, but it can be more spectacular. Check out 3:42, 3:59, 4:16 and 4:25.

All these locations in the video show 100+ foot plumes of flame that match up with the screenshots posted by Oleg and Co.

We need to remember that SOW is not IL2 (stock, modded or otherwise) and it would sad if we missed out on a historical portrail of air combat because they were labeled too 'Holywood'.

Cheers!

Nice video. This is PTO so it makes me wonder if fire like this is a Japanese non-sealing tank problem.

Originally Posted by Jumo211

Excellent topic ! also a lot of fun going on because that's about all we have right now

@ Skoshi Tiger

here is what I meant by initial outburst footage with aircraft going all the way to the ground ( or water in this case ) .
These two aircrafts are about the biggest black thick outburst I have seen from tons of WWII archive footage ,
it's rare to find as there is not much of such outburst recorded by gun cameras or by the cameraman on the ground .
These are pretty violent blasts but then again each thick smoke is running out in few seconds .

Here beginning @ 3:24

Now I'd really like to see these effects, where the fuel blows, then is all burned off so there is little trailing smoke 3:35

[Jumo211]

Hi Osprey ,
and these are indeed Japanese aircrafts , it's much harder to find archival footage showing such blast in European Theater of Operations with German , U.S. , Italy , GB and other countries aircrafts .
That's why I will keep saying that there was not much going on with black thick smokes and huge fire blaze especially in ETO .
If you look at that third Japanese plane going down , it's also on small fire with little smoke exactly as many ETO aircrafts shows .
Lets wait for the first BoB:SoW video to see what's going on