Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Osprey

So did you read Oleg's reply about this or did you just not understand a word of it?


It beggars belief. There are genuinely some people here that seem to be expecting real life with the imagery. I'm more interested in the FM and DM being accurate than whether or not the farmer has barley or potatoes in his fields.

As somebody already pointed out the real gems of information are not from the shots but Oleg's commentary this week, very exciting future but obviously dependent on finance. It makes me want to buy multiple copies just in case!!!

I did understand Olegs reply, and i understand some of the pics i posted are not 100% the right colours but they are alot closer to what i see everyday.

Now if people think the colours in Olegs shots are closer to the colours of southern England than the ones i posted, thats fine with me... maybe they can find one real picture that matches that mix of colours and looks like Olegs screen shot, and then post it here.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by furbs

I did understand Olegs reply, and i understand some of the pics i posted are not 100% the right colours but they are alot closer to what i see everyday.

Now if people think the colours in Olegs shots are closer to the colours of southern England than the ones i posted, thats fine with me... maybe they can find one real picture that matches that mix of colours and looks like Olegs screen shot, and then post it here.

You didn't understand my answer.

I will explain by a bit other way in shotest way.

1. The purpose of the shots was to show sharpnes of the ground image from altitude and on great distances.

2. Your posted photos are not like the human eye see it in real time

3. I answered you that the colors are not final.

For all:
Because we are fighting with HDR technology that damages some time real colors we tune the texture colors already long time. And now this work is close to final, but need to be tuned exact tint and saturation of textures color - one for all

HDR in its way how it is used by all (compression) - great mistake of someone...
We will use it minimal... close to zero. Because it is impossible already to remove. Just in cockpit it gives some advantage. But overal - it is global mistake of all developers. Probably main world developers understood it already too and tuned it to minimal.

I think many photographers will confirm my thought if the speech is about realistic lifelike photos and not about toxic colors that someone think is cool... (some time really cool if it is the art using this toxic colors especially )

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

You didn't understand my answer.

I will explain by a bit other way in shotest way.

1. The purpose of the shots was to show sharpnes of the ground image from altitude and on great distances.

2. Your posted photos are not like the human eye see it in real time

3. I answered you that the colors are not final.

For all:
Because we are fighting with HDR technology that damages some time real colors we tune the texture colors already long time. And now this work is close to final, but need to be tuned exact tint and saturation of textures color - one for all

HDR in its way how it is used by all (compression) - great mistake of someone...
We will use it minimal... close to zero. Because it is impossible already to remove. Just in cockpit it gives some advantage. But overal - it is global mistake of all developers. Probably main world developers understood it already too and tuned it to minimal.

I think many photographers will confirm my thought if the speech is about realistic lifelike photos and not about toxic colors that someone think is cool... (some time really cool if it is the art using this toxic colors especially )

Thanks again Oleg, i know the colours will be tweaked until release and i hope you can get the closest colours to real as you can while fighting the tec problems.
Like i say...everything thing else is looking very good and i can see the improvement in detail even from last weeks shots.

[Spudkopf]

I only have the one problem with this shot.....



.....and that is that sadly the Hurricane is partially cropped, or otherwise it would have made an excellent wall-paper

By the way did any of those that are criticising take into account the distance haze effect at altitude that can turn what is brilliant contrast at low level into pastel blandness when higher up, I have seen it many a time when flying locally down-under and also when I’ve been over mainland Europe and the and the UK?

Just my thoughts!