Cliffs of Dover Technical FAQ

[*Buzzsaw*]

Salute Luthier

Thanks very much for all your hard work. The game looks to have incredible potential and I'm sure your team will be able to deal with the issues which have arisen on release.

[Heliocon]

Thanks for the update Luthier, good to hear what is being worked on.

For the trees, (is speed tree being used?) why not just create a hitbox around their center and generate it when a plane gets close to/within a certain range of a tree.

[luthier]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

For the trees, (is speed tree being used?) why not just create a hitbox around their center and generate it when a plane gets close to/within a certain range of a tree.

That's exactly what we tried at first, but there are too many trees and too many planes. We also use a rather unorthodox scheme for tree coordinates, which allows us to generate more trees in a frame than perhaps ever in the history of speedtree, but that also makes collisions difficult to track.

Even with a single plane, anything we try leads to significant freezes when flying over terrain, much worse than anything you currently see, and if you have say two large squadrons taking off one in England and one in France, forget it, the constant generation of collisions against multiple fast-moving objects kills everything.

This could possibly be cured by dumping everything onto a separate core used for nothing but tree collisions, but that would instantly increase our system requirements to 4+ core systems.

[ShockLoad]

Thanks very much for the explanations luthier!

Only thing that bothers me slightly is the issue concerning the propeller. So it's possible it may never revert to what you originally wanted? Could a compromise be found?

Doesn't make a big difference to me though - I'll be buying the game anyway.

[cato_larsen]

Thanks luthier.

i must say I enjoy reading the un-clincical precise "official" FAQ.
Specially the "A very annoying, nasty, despicable bug that we've been hunting down for months and those damned cursors are still there. Grrr! They are on our hit list."

Thank you for the update. Most of us know how demanding bugs and pipstickles in our daily work can be. Hopefully support will keep on comming. You have set your standards with IL2 you know No game I know of (well maybe OFP and ArmA series) has had such great support. Long live the smaller dev companies for niche markets.

[T}{OR]

This indeed answers many questions. Thank you for that luthier.

Looking forward to the future optimizations and your team perfecting this game.

Really sorry to hear that the propellers might never be the way they were supposed to.

[GOA_Potenz]

Somebody can tell me how to get rid of this

it's over water or land

i'm running catalyst 11.3 on a HD 6970

[ripmax]

hello

i just recently bought this game and installed the updates from steam. as soon as i start the game the cockpits always come in many colours like tiny dots or red yello and other's many of the gauges are unreadable .

i updated the drivers of my video card and still i have this problem.

my video card is nvidia GTX 550 TI

any help pls?

regards
Daniel

[Quai1Ooth5d]

Thanks for the update Luthier, good to hear what is being worked on.

For the trees, (is speed tree being used?) why not just create a hitbox around their center and generate it when a plane gets close to/within a certain range of a tree.

[Hauptmann109]

Hello

I have a different problem:

I've installed the game and the game works very quickly until I click "fly" for any missions. Then I just get sent back to the desktop but I hear the game running perfectly. Also when I press ESC I go back to the menu and the game works there. Also when editing skins, I don't see any pictures, just a black screen.

I'm running it on a Windows 7 computer with a intel HD 2000 graphics card @ 1.7GB

Ram 8 GB, intel i7 quad core 3.4 GHz processor, so the game should work.

Thanks for the help!