Film of the competitors! (Boo Hiss!)

[whatnot]

Thank god there are two jaw-dropping sims in the funnel so it's more likely that atleast one of them have to be out sooner or later! I just hope for my sanitys sake that they won't come out at the same time.

Glowing Amraam sure knows how to make videos too, maybe he could put something together for SOW too unless Oleg has is own ideas.

One thing that has troubled me for a long time is the damage models of the vehicles etc and how they come to be to be more precise. It's like frame 1: perfectly working tank and then when hit frame 2: destroyed tank. Is it too time consuming to create some type of evolution in the breakdown?

I guess one can argue that you won't see it happen anyway flying x00 miles an hour and being half a mile away but it would be nice for the movies atleast

It also applies to the buildings, especially big ones like the factory we saw in a recent update that was hit by Stuka. Instead of the whole 200m wide factory being hit it would be great to see damage that a few bombs would actually cause which in my books would be something like a hole in the middle. God knows what that would take to develop but just sayin.

[Feuerfalke]

BlackShark already abandoned the frame1-frame2 thing.

If you hit a unit, it starts smoking or burning, then it explodes after a few seconds of burning. Some targets also cause secondary explosions.

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

BlackShark already abandoned the frame1-frame2 thing.

If you hit a unit, it starts smoking or burning, then it explodes after a few seconds of burning. Some targets also cause secondary explosions.

That sounds promising, need to re-install BS while waiting for Maddox and ED to finalize their work.

[proton45]

I would welcome an up-date of the "BlackShark" series....

[Cap Loz]

Latest news from the producer.

Originally Posted by Wags
"Although the team has been working hard on DX11 support, there is still a long way to go and it will not be ready in time for A-10C unfortunately. Work continues though and we hope to have it in the next DCS aircraft."

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Cap Loz

Latest news from the producer.

Originally Posted by Wags
"Although the team has been working hard on DX11 support, there is still a long way to go and it will not be ready in time for A-10C unfortunately. Work continues though and we hope to have it in the next DCS aircraft."

Thats not good. I guess it would have been the first flight sim to incorporate DX11.

I sort of was going to using it as a justification to upgrade to DX11 card. Guess we'll have to wait and see what happens with ROF and SOW!

But I guess there are pressures to get the sim out of the door.

It does highlight the point that Black Shark and the A-10 series are two seperate title.

I guess we are lucky that in the past Oleg&Co have been giving us compatable upgrades and expansions.

Cheers and thanks for the news.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

It does highlight the point that Black Shark and the A-10 series are two seperate title.

Sorry, I don't understand. How is the fact that now both titles use the same DX9 an indicator that they are not compatible?


I also don't think that leaving DX11 out is a bad decision. As posted in another thread, the main advantage of using DX11 is to speed up rendering. But rendering of the world graphics is much less a priority for DCS as the phyiscs behind the FM, the DM and the avionics. So buying a top-notch DX11 card for DCS was a pretty superficial excuse.

@proton45:
It was posted a long time ago, that it's planned to upgrade older modules with the enhancements published in newer versions 1.) to maintain compatibility between the modules and 2.) because the system is designed modular, just like Oleg's SoW-engine.

So, unless something unforeseen happens, I bet there will be an update for BlackShark.