Friday 2010-09-03 Dev. update and Discussions

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Jumo211

Hello Skoshi Tiger ,
the problem with this video is that those are very few aircrafts with more dramatic smokes that are in existence available on YouTube , zillion gun camera videos have these included , how many planes are going down like this with black thick smoke in available huge WWII archival footage ? maybe 10 , 20 ? plus you don't see the whole story , many of these black thick burst will run out in about 5 seconds which is not shown in the rest of the youtube footage and you won't find the whole footage on youtube to compare.
After few seconds black thick smoke is most of the time gone leaving very transparent grayish color and little smoke .
We're talking about hundreds of shut down planes you won't see on youtube , which shows 90% of the time little or no smoke regardless of planes which also caught fire .
Black thick smoke was not sustainable to continue for extended period of time with majority of planes shot down including Japanese aircrafts .
Available huge WWII air combat archive mostly U.S. and Italy's Luce is not always some poor grainy videos , it's almost like in HD quality and footage speaks for itself .

I'm sure your right. What I'm looking forward to is a more detailed damage model and associated visual effects in SOW.

Untill we get a video of what SOW is actually going to provide in terms of fire effects I'm fairly happy with what has been shown to us.

Originally Posted by Jumo211

Back on topic , I believe that pilot head size must be correct , this is my picture I took just recently and it looks like I should be ready for Hurricane aircraft

LoL! Of course, a smaller head would mean a smaller chance of being PK'ed! and that has to be good?

Cheers!

[airmalik]

I hope Oleg's getting a chuckle out of this thread.

Here's my contribution:



original:

[watts]

I'll have to get a new computer to play this, but god do I look forward to it.

[airmalik]

[Flanker35M]

S!

Airmalik..that pic! TOUCHÉ!!!

[McHilt]

[QUOTE=airmalik;179432]I hope Oleg's getting a chuckle out of this thread.

Here's my contribution:



You can tell just by eyeballing that the pilot's head is a bit small but on the other hand: what could ever make me think Oleg and crew can't figure the right proportions... they of course use decent reference materials as templates. Weird issue here.

Anyway, they'll get it right, I'm sure.

Have a nice day all


Real good contribution btw airmalik, it makes perfect sense

[lbuchele]

[QUOTE=McHilt;179444]

Originally Posted by airmalik

I hope Oleg's getting a chuckle out of this thread.

Here's my contribution:



You can tell just by eyeballing that the pilot's head is a bit small but on the other hand: what could ever make me think Oleg and crew can't figure the right proportions... they of course use decent reference materials as templates. Weird issue here.

Anyway, they'll get it right, I'm sure.

Have a nice day all
That pilot was made prisioner by some shrinking head african tribe,that's a possible explanation.
Makes perfect sense to me.


Real good contribution btw airmalik, it makes perfect sense

[Bloblast]

[QUOTE=airmalik;179432]I hope Oleg's getting a chuckle out of this thread.

Here's my contribution:


Head too small and canopy too big. I already concluded that.

[McHilt]

"..... That pilot was made prisioner by some shrinking head african tribe,that's a possible explanation......."


That wasn't me

[Jimko]

Originally Posted by airmalik

I hope Oleg's getting a chuckle out of this thread.

original:

Good pics, airmalik!

Your picture (above) takes me again to this picture of Stanford Tuck in his Hurri, which I posted earlier...the scale of 'pilot in cockpit' looks very similar to me.

Click on the thumbnail and in the enlarged picture his gunsight and line-of-sight are more evident. Other pictures and historic film indicate that the pilot would often lean forward a bit, putting their eyes lower and more in line with the gunsight when firing.