Friday update and duscussions 2011-02-18

[phoenix1963]

Originally Posted by Il2Pongo

Most stream features on the map would not be visible from such high altitude.
Most of them would not appear blue at all. They might be a shadow in the trees.
Many flight sims seem to do this, grossly exaggerate the visibility of small streams from altitude.

+1

In fact, most streams and rivers (most UK rivers would actually qualify as streams in the rest of the world!) are visible from the air ONLY because of the lines of trees and bushes on their banks. I can see how making those continuous lines or bushes and trees compatible with a tiled landscape is hard, so I sympathise with Oleg & his team.

The rather il2ish landscape is perhaps the least satisfactory aspect of CoD at present, great damage & engine modelling, fm sounds great.

Also, some weather that is better than il2 but not fully dynamic is surely possible.

We only can hope that Oleg & team start getting some revenue in that enables improvement.

56RAF_phoenix