4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[KG26_Alpha]

Introducing shadow shaders in OGL optimization would bring IL2 1946 leaps and bounds forwards.

Even if it were just the cockpits that got the shadow treatment

[Tolwyn]

Uh. My card doesn't support OpenGL 2.0. I depend on the game to still be close to the original specs, if you want fancy graphics, maybe CLOD?

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Introducing shadow shaders in OGL optimization would bring IL2 1946 leaps and bounds forwards.

Even if it were just the cockpits that got the shadow treatment

[gauderio]

Originally Posted by Tolwyn

Uh. My card doesn't support OpenGL 2.0. I depend on the game to still be close to the original specs, if you want fancy graphics, maybe CLOD?

Because of this we are asking for this option can be enabled or disabled by the user as an option in SETTINGS SETUP. Maybe adding one more option in settings like ULTRA HIGH or as a simple switching SHADOWS ON/OFF
Who want to use, use, who does not want to use, just disable the option. Like any other option in the setup. The user chooses he wants to use this settings or not.


sorry my english.

[Iszak]

Originally Posted by gauderio

Because of this we are asking for this option can be enabled or disabled by the user as an option in SETTINGS SETUP. Maybe adding one more option in settings like ULTRA HIGH or as a simple switching SHADOWS ON/OFF
Who want to use, use, who does not want to use, just disable the option. Like any other option in the setup. The user chooses he wants to use this settings or not.


sorry my english.

What he said.

Your English is good enough to convey your thoughts, don't you worry.

[nic727]

What I saw about AnKor work, we could change DirectX 9 feature in the game like he did with CFS3... Like better water, lighting, smoke shadow, water reflection, self-shadowing, etc.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Tolwyn

Uh. My card doesn't support OpenGL 2.0. I depend on the game to still be close to the original specs, if you want fancy graphics, maybe CLOD?

Original game was/is coded for OGL & Dx so no change there.

You can quite happily sit there looking at it unaffected by OGL coding that the rest of us are looking at as it is at present with perfect mode and water 4 (Nvidia) and effects 2 etc etc.

Thats not to say a rework of the Dx8 or Dx9 IL2 1946 is using could be as good or better than OGL
but i suspect a rewrite of the complete game textures would be in order if its optimized for OGL only.

Quite frankly its your choice using a 8+ year old PC.

Originally Posted by gauderio

Because of this we are asking for this option can be enabled or disabled by the user as an option in SETTINGS SETUP.
Maybe adding one more option in settings like ULTRA HIGH or as a simple switching SHADOWS ON/OFF
Who want to use, use, who does not want to use, just disable the option. Like any other option in the setup.
The user chooses he wants to use this settings or not.
sorry my English.

Yes all good there.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Original game was/is coded for OGL & Dx so no change there.

You can quite happily sit there looking at it unaffected by OGL coding that the rest of us are looking at as it is at present with perfect mode and water 4 (Nvidia) and effects 2 etc etc.

Thats not to say a rework of the Dx8 or Dx9 IL2 1946 is using could be as good or better than OGL
but i suspect a rewrite of the complete game textures would be in order if its optimized for OGL only.

Quite frankly its your choice using a 8+ year old PC.





Yes all good there.

Actually it's all OpenGL... the DirectX mode is a wrapper only. It'd be interesting to see development of a more modern DirectX mode. It'd open up the door to all kinds of possibilities but its no small task and it would be years in the making.

Another game had a similar kind of experience. FreeSpace 2 was a space combat game that came out in the late 90s. The source was opened by the developers and the community has been busy working on it ever since. The visual effects have come a long way but we're talking a decade worth of open source development done by a pretty hardcore team. I suspect that in many ways that engine is a lot simpler than what IL-2 hooks into.

[shelby]

hope to see mc200 serie1 cockpit

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Tolwyn

Geforce 6600.
OpenGL 1.5

Originally Posted by Iszak

And what card is that? 3dFX VooDoo?

Originally Posted by Iszak

But Geforce 6600 IS OpenGL 2.0/2.1 compatible, so what's the problem? O_o

I'm gonna call him Trollwyn on DD TS next time Im on there lol

Originally Posted by IceFire

Actually it's all OpenGL... the DirectX mode is a wrapper only. It'd be interesting to see development of a more modern DirectX mode. It'd open up the door to all kinds of possibilities but its no small task and it would be years in the making.

Another game had a similar kind of experience. FreeSpace 2 was a space combat game that came out in the late 90s. The source was opened by the developers and the community has been busy working on it ever since. The visual effects have come a long way but we're talking a decade worth of open source development done by a pretty hardcore team. I suspect that in many ways that engine is a lot simpler than what IL-2 hooks into.

Yea I know fella I'm just going through the motions for a certain member here












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[DD_crash]

I am sure that he would appreciate that Alpha Tolwyn has threatened to upgrade his puter when he can get someone to do it.