Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Another thing to remember is that WOP/BOP cheats when it comes to graphics. It's really heavy handed when it comes to filters and different effects, which overall makes the terrain look more "natural in-game" to the user, but not realistic.

If it looks natural, how can it be unrealistic? Now I agree that WoP uses some very overdone filters and also some simple "cheats" like the secondary lightsource opposite of the sun (works great to give objects more depth on the unlit side even though it's not realistic at all). On the other hand computer graphics has always been about "smoke and mirrors" in the sense that the standard shading procedures are not based on real life, but rather happen to look nice.

Further more, what you are seeing when you take a picture with your camera and what you see posted on the net from people flying over is not an accurate representation of what real colour is. You need an expensive camera with a RAW output, then tweak it's colour levels in Photoshop before you ever get close to real/actual colours and lighting.

That's certainly true, but still the subjective impression about what matches people's idea of real life scenery is what counts in the end. I do think that overall much WoP is closer to this real life impression than the SoW images posted this week. At the same time some important aspects of landscape rendering are already way better here.

Personally I'm not too worried. I guess people are simply irritated that the SoW updates don't show constant improvements in every area; it's obvious that the team is still experimenting with many aspects. Most screens released so far focus on certain aspects, and many people fail to see this (usually ignoring the shown features and commenting on something else).

So far we have not seen a single screenshot that combines the best aspects shown in individual screens.

[furbs]

have a look at this vid, now it isnt great quailty and of course the colours might not be 100% true, but they show much closer what i see with my own eyes everyday than the screens from this weeks update.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...3917701546539#

(fast forward to 20 mins)

[Trumper]

Originally Posted by furbs

have a look at this vid, now it isnt great quailty and of course the colours might not be 100% true, but they show much closer what i see with my own eyes everyday than the screens from this weeks update.

(fast forward to 20 mins)

Not a blue field in sight.

[ChrisDNT]

Originally Posted by furbs

have a look at this vid, now it isnt great quailty and of course the colours might not be 100% true, but they show much closer what i see with my own eyes everyday than the screens from this weeks update.

(fast forward to 20 mins)

Very interesting and informative video : this is exactly what I want to see in the sim (1).




(1) to the fanboys, again, I'm not asking here a perfect photorealistic rendering of the reality in the sim (I know it's not technically possible with our PC's), but a good choice of the color palette for the described area. Basically, I want to see the green of England.




P.S. Is the above film available/buyable somewhere in good quality ?
Is this a doc from the BBC ?

[KG26_Alpha]

What you need is a scenery simulator.

SoW BoB wont be for you in this case .

[furbs]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

What you need is a scenery simulator.

SoW BoB wont be for you in this case .

Alpha, i will say it once more, ALL im talking about is the colours.
everything else ive seen from SOW looks great, and im sure it will be great.