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[ZaltysZ]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

I never played it the old sim. Wish I had. How about Cliff of Dover? How does the landscape look against the new IL-2?

It is hard to compare because Normandy and Kuban+Georgia have very different landscapes. The former is flat mostly and features lots of patches of various fields, while the last one is mountainous and incredibly cluttered with trees and bushes. In anyway, CoD engine seems more advanced, and has more features for better landscape lightning and details, so Kuban for Cod would probably look better.

P.S: Water is always rendered like it is at sea level in DCS, so if you are flying in mountains and look at lake there, you may feel like someone is doing "F" with your mind.

Originally Posted by ZaltysZ

It is hard to compare because Normandy and Kuban+Georgia have very different landscapes. The former is flat mostly and features lots of patches of various fields, while the last one is mountainous and incredibly cluttered with trees and bushes. In anyway, CoD engine seems more advanced, and has more features for better landscape lightning and details, so Kuban for Cod would probably look better.

P.S: Water is always rendered like it is at sea level in DCS, so if you are flying in mountains and look at lake there, you may feel like someone is doing "F" with your mind.

DCS scenery is designed to keep the resources down, please take into consideration the square area size of the scenery represented in both cases. il2 scenery bogs your system down to level that makes flying (whats the opposite of fluid). DCS terrain lets you go on and on never questioning the frame resources from one area to the next. yes CLOD is more advanced and substancially more appealing. but has not proved its worth as of yet imo.

[ATAG_Doc]

Cliffs of Dover should have taken a page from DCS I guess. Skimp on the details to save on resources.

[tintifaxl]

Actually I prefer the look and feel of the DCS engine. Not the details - here CloD wins hands down, but although CloD looks very beautiful, it has a cartoonish touch to it. And I don't like CloD's occasionally missing houses at the edge of a village and the strange LOD (square) when high up.

I think DCS's next gen ground engine will be a major step forward, based on the screenshots of the Nevada terrain.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by ZaltysZ

There are lots of things, which need to be changed in DCS, but it is not that bad. At least not when compared to old IL2.

The LockOn engine, like IL-2, was way ahead of its time and is just now starting to show it age..

You can allways pick 'one' aspect of a sim to make it look good or bad realitive to another.. To do an honest comp one would have to tally up all the features vs features.. But since we are talking about the ground modeling, I think the current DCS stuff falls somewere inbetween IL-2 and CoD.