Friday 2010-09-24 Dev. update and Discussion

[Skoshi Tiger]

[QUOTE=Rall;184322]I have one suggestion. I think that when your sitting in the cockpit you should be able to look down and see the pilots legs, feet, right arm with hand on stick and left arm with hand on throttle.

It's just not right to look down & see nothing. Am I right?
QUOTE]

Yes, but its just as wrong to hit a button on your keyboard and the pilots hands don't move or even worse - go through a series of canned animated movements AFTER you selected the switch, or not being able to see your throttle setting because your hand is on the mixture control. (hey how did the sim know I wanted to move the mixture- see what I'm getting at?)

Some times you need to sit back and remember that there are only so many things that can be done, we are after all talking about a PC Simulation.

This topic has been debated numerous times in the past. The answer is that there will not be one solution that will satisfy everyone and that it's up to the developers to create the sim the way they see fit, and we will either decide to purchace it based on the features that it offers or we won't.


Cheers!

[Hunden]

Oleg thanx for taking time and giving a written update as well as the friday pics. I hope all goes well at home and at work.

[Defender]

Pictures look great, very VERY excited about this title and appreciate in advance the level of detail you've put into it and plan on implementing into it in the future.

As far as the "lasers" go...I think we owe Oleg a little respect in this department. These are in no way FINAL so given the other painstaking details being modeled I think it's pretty safe to say he'll get the tracers as right looking as possible come release.

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by Defender

As far as the "lasers" go...I think we owe Oleg a little respect in this department. These are in no way FINAL so given the other painstaking details being modeled I think it's pretty safe to say he'll get the tracers as right looking as possible come release.

Given Oleg's comments I assume they are very much final, which is perfectly fine with me, as this is more or less how tracers should be rendered. And even if most people are already tired of this anecdote (at least if they've been following Il2 tracer discussions for the last ~10 years): George Lucas tried to replicate WW2 tracer fire for the lasers in Star Wars, so it's actually a good reference.

[Richie]

I just remembered this old movie and the tracer discussion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2x27ahVz9o

..is probably less that 25 % of the whole project...

It is close to finished product and we did NOT see:

Clouds, tracers with smoke, exlposions, bullit hits, crashes, troups on the ground, AA in action, or anything that would make us really go "wooooooooooooooooow"...

So I am pretty sure that Oleg keeps the real good stuff for an official announcement.....and ...VIDEO !!!!!

Salut !

Originally Posted by kalimba

... troups on the ground...

Will we have people on the ground?