Friday 2010-11-26 Dev. update and Discussion

[kingpinda]

Originally Posted by sorak

We was saying we wanted IMPROVED FF effects.. The current IL2 allready has FF. We wanted SOW to have better FF not the same engine.

My apologies. I misread. Then I'm with you guys Although yeah.. I hope i don't come across to arrogant but in this day and age I would not even halve but fully expect this to be implemented to start with. I hope I don't brush the developers the wrong way with this because I respect your work and can't wait but if you plan to deliver a realistic sim then imo FFB will add alot to it. Simply because of the fact that WWII crates' handling has alot to do with the feedback the pilot receives from the plane during a number of conditions. Be it weather, damage, speed etc. I have this nice mental picture of Leonardo di capri in the movie the aviator. Where he flies this experimental 2 prop plane and his starboard engine gives out. Near crash you see him clutching the yoke to one side with all his might and full rudder and his other foot on the dashboard to keep the plane level. Now when the day comes that affordable FFB rudders are available and offcourse implemented in a sim.. Man I think i wouldn't leave my house for anyone or anything :p

[JAMF]

I'm curious how the Hurricane came to that position and received no damage from the tree?

[Ploughman]

That pranged Hurricane in the wheat field looks good. Thanks again. Look forward to seeing the meat and two veg of the sim as you refine it.

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by JAMF

I'm curious how the Hurricane came to that position and received no damage from the tree?

I assume it has to be one of the following:

- heavy crosswinds
- it's the rubber tree from Monkey Island
- the damage model isn't that sophisticated yet (work in progress etc.)

Originally Posted by kendo65

Looks to me like the background in that pic (ie the clouds) is a photograph that has been photoshopped in. All the rest of the elements (buildings, aircraft, balloons, flak) are from the game. (I'd be delighted to be proved wrong about the clouds though, but I doubt it...)

It seems that some of us agree on the fact that the backgrounds are from the in game engine...And taking in consideration what Oleg said a few weeks ago about the new clouds (WIP) not yet implemented in SOW's engine, I freely extrapolated on the possibility that even the clouds we see in the shot #2 could be from in game too...That's all...A wishfull thinking !

Salute !

[RomBinDaHouse]

Why the tree didn't cut off the right wing of Hurricane on fifth shot?

[JG52Krupi]

How do you know it slid in from that angle, it could have slid in and ended up on its side...

If there were tracks we could tell

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by kalimba

It seems that some of us agree on the fact that the backgrounds are from the in game engine...And taking in consideration what Oleg said a few weeks ago about the new clouds (WIP) not yet implemented in SOW's engine, I freely extrapolated on the possibility that even the clouds we see in the shot #2 could be from in game too...That's all...A wishfull thinking !

Salute !

I'd love you to be right If the background is from in-game then things have really moved on. It just looks TOO good, but like I say I would like to be wrong on this.

How do you know it slid in from that angle, it could have slid in and ended up on its side...

If there were tracks we could tell

Why the tree didn't cut off the right wing of Hurricane on fifth shot?

I assumed that was the bug that Oleg referred to - one wing gets clobbered by a tree, but the other one falls off!

Wasn't it SaQSoN saying there won't be damage trails on the ground?

[Dano]

The bug is quite obviously the landing light reflecting as if there is no grass in front of it.