Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

[Xilon_x]

i prefer BOB is SUPER GRAPHIC.and good color.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by mazex

Fairness shall be done as CFS3 (aka the banana) has been requested into the fruit bowl

SoW:BoB - WIP 2010-10

Battle of Britain II v 2.11

IL2

Wings of Prey

CFS3 v 3.1a maxed out graphics


Had to search long to find my CFS3 discs and sorry, there is no Hurricane in the orignal version so another Hawker will have to do...

Any more to add?

EDIT: Had to add that it was a nasty experience to have a go at the CFS3 FM again while positioning the Typhoon for the shot... Shudders...

I love this white tips on the horizontal stabs lol..Also the noses of the 109s in this sim always looked like they were missing their condoms. From the oil cooler to the spinner they were too long and the prop looked like it had a 50 foot arc.

[Gourmand]

Originally Posted by mazex

Some more comparisons:

SoW:BoB - WIP 2010-10
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/9885/bobcompare2.jpg
Battle of Britain II v 2.11
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6...2comparev2.jpg
IL2
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/3...2comparev2.jpg
Wings of Prey
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6...pcomparev3.jpg

I vote for SoW:BoB even though it will surely get a better palette/shading etc. The important thing for me is that it's the only where the Hurricane can be mistaken for a real image, the other ones are not even close - and this is about aircraft - isn't it?

I hope image no 3 is ok here - it stands out as the least convincing to me so...

I am delighted that the graphics are beautiful and realistic, but for me what counts is the simulation and game-play, BoP is beautiful but still a bad play and bad management of the damage. that is why I no longer play a WoP and I play a IL-2 1946 ( i love landing too ) and I've waited impatiently WOP.

[peterwoods@supanet.com]

The picture below is a painting by well known aviation artist Nicolas Trudgian and is titled "Tangmere Hurricanes".
My scan does not do the colours of the original justice but that is not my purpose in posting here.



There are various elements of the scenery which have been much discussed in this and other threads on this forum of late.

The aircraft are over-flying what was in 1940 a typical Sussex small town/large village railway station. The station is served by a single track line branching into two lines to serve the station's up and down platforms.
Two terminating sidings would have been used for all varities of freight for the local area, (very little freight was moved long distances by road in those days). The goods wagon (van) in the siding appears to be being unloaded with freight for the RAF, (although I have never seen an RAF vehicle marked in this manner, I suspect poetic/artistic licence in view of the subject matter).
The level crossing, which has already been closed behind the recently arrived passenger train, is typical of all contemporary road crossings of the railways in the UK.
The steam engine and three passenger carriages again are typical of Southern Railways branch lines at that time, main lines had a third, electricfied, rail.
The single deck Southdown Ltd bus is again typical of the time and it looks like "Olegs MG" is dropping off/collecting a passenger.
The wheat sheaves and the horse-drawn cart are also how it was done then.
The church with its Norman tower and the various houses are typical of the Sussex/South Downs countryside, as are the stone bridges carrying the railway and road across the small river and the rolling South Downs in the background.
All in all a perfect example of southern England scenery in 1940.

[Abbeville-Boy]

Originally Posted by peterwoods@supanet.com

The picture below is a painting by well known aviation artist Nicolas Trudgian and is titled "Tangmere Hurricanes".
My scan does not do the colours of the original justice but that is not my purpose in posting here.



There are various elements of the scenery which have been much discussed in this and other threads on this forum of late.

The aircraft are over-flying what was in 1940 a typical Sussex small town/large village railway station. The station is served by a single track line branching into two lines to serve the station's up and down platforms.
Two terminating sidings would have been used for all varities of freight for the local area, (very little freight was moved long distances by road in those days). The goods wagon (van) in the siding appears to be being unloaded with freight for the RAF, (although I have never seen an RAF vehicle marked in this manner, I suspect poetic/artistic licence in view of the subject matter).
The level crossing, which has already been closed behind the recently arrived passenger train, is typical of all contemporary road crossings of the railways in the UK.
The steam engine and three passenger carriages again are typical of Southern Railways branch lines at that time, main lines had a third, electricfied, rail.
The single deck Southdown Ltd bus is again typical of the time and it looks like "Olegs MG" is dropping off/collecting a passenger.
The wheat sheaves and the horse-drawn cart are also how it was done then.
The church with its Norman tower and the various houses are typical of the Sussex/South Downs countryside, as are the stone bridges carrying the railway and road across the small river and the rolling South Downs in the background.
All in all a perfect example of southern England scenery in 1940.

i notice a singe track line entering

[Qpassa]

no update today (yet)?

i'm tense

[Gourmand]

this update was posted : 10-15-2010, 03:53 PM

so.. wait,... wait...