Friday 2010-11-12 Dev. update and Discussion

[zauii]

Excellent as always Oleg, can't wait? 2011 mkay?

[SturmKreator]

Oleg i really like your job, this new game will be the best sim ever produced

Stunning! "From the creators of award winning IL-2 Sturmovik." The box needs this on the cover at the very least. Watching the videos took me back to the old CFS2 days when a Russian team offered stunning cockpit addons for the game.

That train sequence! Foo'bar because of you I'm going to become a train watcher

Edit: watching a second time it sunk in how powerful that "Cliffs of Dover" title is. It's subtle but effective and in the long run the title will be defined by the quality of the sim. Not to over analyze but "Cliffs of Dover" just feels right somehow. Maybe the "Battle of Britain" title has seen too much use already.

[Col.Flanders]

I'm not sure if this has been asked or if it's common knowledge yet but could anyone tell me what resolution the aircraft skins are going to be? I think skinning for this new sim is going to be something special!

[TheSwede]

Lovely video! The atmosphere is stunning!

I love the good old il2 FW190 engine sound used as a place holder.

Something tells me that even with this amount of details of London, it will be easier to get good frames in SoW than over Berlin in Il2. The technical evolution is magnificient!

BR
Simon

[David603]

Originally Posted by Col.Flanders

I'm not sure if this has been asked or if it's common knowledge yet but could anyone tell me what resolution the aircraft skins are going to be? I think skinning for this new sim is going to be something special!

2048x2048

[PilotError]

Amazing !

The mobile phone videos we saw previously let us know we were in for a treat, but it looks even better than I expected.

Not at all sure about "Cliffs of Dover" though.

[luthier]

Originally Posted by Col.Flanders

I'm not sure if this has been asked or if it's common knowledge yet but could anyone tell me what resolution the aircraft skins are going to be? I think skinning for this new sim is going to be something special!

2048x2048.

But, it's complicated.

We have split up the paintscheme, the actual colors, from the rest of the texture - the rivets, the panel lines, the weathering, etc. The user texture is just the colors, i.e. your experience as a texturer is like simply coming up to the finished plane with some paint and a paintbrush, not actually re-riveting it or moving panels around.

So the user texture can actually be a smaller resolution, 512, even 64x64 and still look all right-ish since the riveting and the weathering on top of it are 2048x2048.

[Col.Flanders]

Originally Posted by luthier

2048x2048.

But, it's complicated.

We have split up the paintscheme, the actual colors, from the rest of the texture - the rivets, the panel lines, the weathering, etc. The user texture is just the colors, i.e. your experience as a texturer is like simply coming up to the finished plane with some paint and a paintbrush, not actually re-riveting it or moving panels around.

So the user texture can actually be a smaller resolution, 512, even 64x64 and still look all right-ish since the riveting and the weathering on top of it are 2048x2048.

Thanks for the info, luthier. That sounds like a clever way to do it. Previously, re-riveting was always a job in itself.

[322Sqn_Dusty]

Can the weathering layer be altered slightly to get varations on the skins or must those be added to the scheme layer?