Friday 2010-03-19 Screenshots and Discussion Thread

[Flanker35M]

S!

So we are getting Storm of War: Battle of the Fields?! Drive the most devastating crop choppers of the era and annihilate your opponents with superior harvesting and fine tuned machinery! Let that neighbour behind the stone wall taste the bitter taste of failure against your perfectly honed farming skills and state of the art farming equipment. Now in DirectX 11 in a shop near you!

Errrm..I thought this was done already

[Sutts]

Nice shots Rodolphe, thanks for posting.

I wasn't against all lines in fields since tractors/horses cutting hay, turning hay, binders cutting cereals etc., would all produce straight lines and blocks of colour in the landscape.

My main issue was the wide spaced uniform tramlines that could only be produced by modern agricultural methods. I think the appearance of round and square bales would also be a killer.

Now, this was all based on the assumption that fields would be put together from a standard set of textures. If this isn't the case and modern aerial photography is being used to put together the landscape then the effort required would be way too much and I'll just live with it.

The trouble with modern aerial photography is the fields have been enlarged and "squared up" considerably since the war and a good percentage of the hedgerows and lanes have been destroyed to cater for modern machinery. This results in a very different looking landscape to that which pilots of the day would have seen.

Anyhow, I think the points are clear and I'll shut up now.

[Les]

Originally Posted by Sutts

...Now, this was all based on the assumption that fields would be put together from a standard set of textures. If this isn't the case and modern aerial photography is being used to put together the landscape then the effort required would be way too much and I'll just live with it...

Somewhere along the way Oleg said the ground textures will be tiled. I vaguely remember some earlier screenshots even showing such.

I highly doubt the default textures will be the VFR style photographic ones. Would be interested to know though if it will be technically possible for the 3rd party add-on makers to use those sort of photographic textures on the smaller maps they'll be allowed to make.

[csThor]

Marking colours for the Luftwaffe are part of my research. I have - as far as possible and as far as I could provide material - listed the historical markings for each Staffel. Where no material was found I applied the standard rules of the Luftwaffendienstvorschrift.

[Richie]

I guess blue numbers didn't come till later in the war.