Friday update and duscussions 2011-02-18

By comparing real images of landscape and in-game sreen shots, my impression is that the obvious difference is in the "contour' definition of the roads, streets, tracks,etc...The blur on edges in CoD appears to me as the principal obstacle to photorealism...For you on this forum who have technical knowledge, is this a limitation of the code itself, or is it a way to preserve acceptable frame rates ?

Thanks !

Salute !

[Freycinet]

Review on Gamer.ru:

http://gamer.ru/shtorm-voyny-bitva-z...a-za-britaniyu

Notice that you need to click some links to see many of the (lovely-looking) screenies.

[Freycinet]

BTW, very good to see the Focke-Wulf in CoD in the above link!

Originally Posted by Freycinet

BTW, very good to see the Focke-Wulf in CoD in the above link!

Where?

[Sven]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Where?

The FW-200, the 4-engined reconnaissance/long range bomber.

[louisv]

AKA the Condor

[Freycinet]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Where?

Just a test to see who knows their WWII planes. You failed.

Originally Posted by Freycinet

Just a test to see who knows their WWII planes. You failed.

Yes, indeed I failed.
When I read FW, I instantly thought of the FW-190, but couldn't find it for sure.

[KG26_Alpha]

[QUOTE=KG26_Alpha;227512]Also rail lines are highly reflective especially in moonlight, but i suspect that's too much to ask for

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Nice pic, surprised you could see it with your head in the clouds

Maybe in il2 version 3 in 2021 we might see that (now look whose head are in the clouds )

No idea what your on about, sorry.

Originally Posted by dali

@kg26_alpha - the photograph can't be compared to what human eye can see. I think too many people here rely solely or in major part to what they saw on the photos/film. In reality things look diferently. One clear example is the perception of depth (which you can't simulate on 2d screen) and it could be done as Rodolphe has shown, the other is perception how tracers realy look like. As far as dynamics of colors and or their hue/saturation, I'm afraid if the release date is realy 25th of March, then there is no time to change that. I'm no expert in programming, but I would presume this is major change in the rendering engine. But there are numerous posibilities on the graphic card settings though...

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I know what they look like at night as I have flown over rail tracks many times, its more a wish list addition, if its already done then a bonus.

Originally Posted by brando

Only unused track carries a patina of rust on the upper surface. Rails in regular use are shiny. The sides of the track may be rusty but not the top. Regular use means one or two trains daily, that's all that's required to keep them polished.

It's a well-attested fact that the Luftwaffe bombers used the main rail routes as a navigation aids, at night as well as in the day. The eight polished rails of the four-track routes reaching from the South coast up to London were a fantastic guide on a moon-lit night, as was the river Thames on its curving path through London.

I have raised this point several times over the last few years and I hope some consideration may have been given to these permanent and obvious navigational aids

Brando

Its along this well known fact that I was interested if 1C team had done any reflective work on the rail lines for CoD, it should a a given that the Rivers have it already modelled.
But if the rail banks have the wrong colour grass in Autumn it goes in the bin




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[McHilt]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Yes, indeed I failed.
When I read FW, I instantly thought of the FW-190, but couldn't find it for sure.

Then mine has failed too, but tell me, where do you see a FW-200?
must be the interior cockpit shot with the copilot then I assume...
however pictures of FW-200 cockpits I've seen do not look like the screenshot
if you ask me...