Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover BETA Patch v 1.03.15527

[klem]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Maybe the amount of degrees of pilot's POV affected on either side could be toned down a bit, but for looking straight at the sun i actually think it's quite good as it is and much better than most other sims i've seen.

I think thats my point. Straight into sun is ok, blinding in fact
Looking about 30 degrees away from the real sun dramatically reduces the glare.

In CoD, with the advantage of TrackIR, I can raise or lower my head so that the sun moves towards the top or bottom of the screen and the glare diminishes more or less as I'd expect and I can see reasonably clearly where I am looking (although at the very edge it begins to act like a hand shading the sun). If I keep the sun halfway up the screen and look towards the left or right the glare is still too strong when the sun is over to one side of the screen (a much larger angle) and I cannot see very clearly where I am looking. That makes searching for aircraft near-co-alt more difficult than I think it would have been, they are not 'in the sun'. Its as though CoD uses the screen location as the glare driver rather than angle of view.

I'd also add that it seems to be aggravated by time of day which for me, when the sun is low, introduces an almost milky appearance, probably haze, when the too-strong glare is amplified and so is much worse looking away sideways. Usually where I live on the South Coast of the UK (halfway between Tangmere and Hawkinge) the morning haze tends to reduce the strength of the glare but spread it a little like a diffuser, which it is I suppose, but not to such a wide angle as CoD. I accept that is at ground level or a few hundred feet up on the Downs and not at 10,000 feet.

Last point, looking at the Spitfire film posted by skarden I think the haze is a little too strong at shorter range in CoD but I suppose it may depend on the type of day CoD is trying to represent. It would be nice to be able to select the haze level to reflect different weather situations and sometimes have those 'gin-clear' days. Perhaps when the FMB weather is sorted we may get that.

[GT182]

Klem, I've gotta agree with you on using the Tracker. You can hide the sun glare behind the canopy bracing by moving your head, or look away from it.

The Tracker is one of the best and most important tools ever made for computer flying. After using it for several years in it's various build stages, I don't see how anyone can fly on their computer without it. It make pc flight all the more real.

[Smokeythelung]

Question for you CoD gurus... So I have CoD on two computers, don't ask , I downloaded the patch and it installed just fine on comp 1 (about a week ago). I'm now installing on comp 2 and the zip file only contains .ogg files (I remember that on comp 1 the zip contained a number of sub folders.) is it possible that tge download has changed? Or have I missed somthing painfully obvious?
Thanks dudes

[klem]

Originally Posted by Smokeythelung

Question for you CoD gurus... So I have CoD on two computers, don't ask , I downloaded the patch and it installed just fine on comp 1 (about a week ago). I'm now installing on comp 2 and the zip file only contains .ogg files (I remember that on comp 1 the zip contained a number of sub folders.) is it possible that tge download has changed? Or have I missed somthing painfully obvious?
Thanks dudes

Full file contains /Paint Schemes/ folder, /parts/ folder, 09062011 Beta Readme.txt and Launcher.exe.config

The .ogg files are sound files, usually in the /Actor../ folders under /parts/speech.de/ and /parts/speech/gb/ folders

Sounds (no pun) like you only have the /parts/speech/... folder(s) there.

1. Did you download a Part download (I haven't checked if there is one).
or
2. Can you copy the original file across your Home network?
or
3. Can you burn it to a DVD?

[Smokeythelung]

Originally Posted by klem

Full file contains /Paint Schemes/ folder, /parts/ folder, 09062011 Beta Readme.txt and Launcher.exe.config

The .ogg files are sound files, usually in the /Actor../ folders under /parts/speech.de/ and /parts/speech/gb/ folders

Sounds (no pun) like you only have the /parts/speech/... folder(s) there.

1. Did you download a Part download (I haven't checked if there is one).
or
2. Can you copy the original file across your Home network?
or
3. Can you burn it to a DVD?

1. No, at least not that I'm aware of (I used the US direct download link in the first post of this thread)
2. Not sure (I'm terrible with computers)
3. Not sure (see answer 2 )

I followed the same steps for both computers, so I'm thourghly confused. I wonder if the link could be bad? I tried the torrent as well (same result). Could it be the way I'm "unzipping" the files? (7-zip on comp 1, winzip on comp 2)?
Anyway, thanks for the reply

[klem]

Well, certainly this is the link of you use Torrent
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JLF4FU6J

and this is the straightforward one for normal downloading
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MA26GNU1

both from the original post. The file is about 500Mb.

[tango2delta]

Holly Cow, i just tried the beta patch and all i can say is its about time. The sounds are perfect and clean and the landscape is perfect. I had a wingman do a vectory roll over the airfield after i landed, we had just took out about 20 stuka, the time was 19.00 hours and clear the lightning on the terrain looked real, the sounds where awsome i swear i smelled 100 octain and oil. Was that vectory roll programed in the game? anyway i have not played on line yet but i sure cannot stay away from the single player. Thanks

I also notice that the on-ground stutterings are back ...

were absent before beta-patch

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