Friday 2009-11-06 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by erco

Hi Oleg! Beautiful work! As usual, it seems you've paid attention to getting the light 'right'. I particularly like the ship/7 shot, with the ship partially blocking the sun's reflection- excellent!

Two questions: 1) Will you have large ocean swells and larger waves (possibly breaking?) and interaction between wind and wave?

2) Looking at the Spitfire cockpit you posted two updates back (it's my desktop) I noticed that the instrument needles weren't throwing a shadow on the instrument faces. Also, that the instruments looked flat- no depth behind the glass instrument face- do you plan on having the reflective effect off of instrument faces and modelling depth of instrument (shadows on instrument faces, etc)?

Thank you for the look at your work!

1. We will have waves, but i don't think we will be able to make all the physics.
Maybe in time we will be able to add new effects. However all we have now is way more that we had in Il-2 for the fligth sim.

2. My guys said following thing: All needles may drop a shadow. If the distance beween the scale and neddle is more than 3 mm (in real scale ).
However its a question to make it finally due to overloading of too many other things in a cockpit. We will see.
In pronciple any detail may drop the shadow in our engine. Simply sometime we need to go for compromise that to get better FPS.

[rakinroll]

Thank you very much Oleg, impressive water detail. S!

[TheGrunch]

Oleg, do you plan to animate the pilots' head movements to follow the view the player uses in the cockpit, TrackIR or otherwise? I thought that was a very nice detail in the Rise of Flight videos I saw. A bit pointless, perhaps, but the guy is our little virtual avatar.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

Oleg, do you plan to animate the pilots' head movements to follow the view the player uses in the cockpit, TrackIR or otherwise? I thought that was a very nice detail in the Rise of Flight videos I saw. A bit pointless, perhaps, but the guy is our little virtual avatar.

In Il-2 there was such a feature for AI pilots. In Rise of flight there is simple animation of pilot that instead of radio may give some commands by hand. However animation there is not like in FPS games when we look close up.

I can't tell you now what we plan to have... because we have some limited time. But you will see something more than in Il-2

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

In Il-2 there was such a feature for AI pilots. In Rise of flight there is simple animation of pilot that instead of radio may give some commands by hand. However animation there is not like in FPS games when we look close up.

I can't tell you now what we plan to have... because we have some limited time. But you will see something more than in Il-2

Every time I read you mention limited time it dawns on me that SOW is getting closer faster.
I know you will not entertain speculation on when you will release the game, but just hearing you mention a time limit is fantastic.
Great water effect way better than Silenthunter 4.
Awesome!

[Schuetz]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

In Il-2 there was such a feature for AI pilots. In Rise of flight there is simple animation of pilot that instead of radio may give some commands by hand. However animation there is not like in FPS games when we look close up.

But in Rise of Flight is possible to see the head movements from a pilot, even online. (TrackIR)

Would that be also possible in SoW?

[csThor]

I can already hear my PC howling for mercy. And I mean the PC I have yet to buy for SoW.

[Feuerfalke]

Lovely shots.

As always the nicest things are off the focus

- The transparent water looks great and pretty realistic!

- The lighting of the trees is great. They also look very detailed and diverse, not like the same tree just cloned over and over again.

Lovely!

[Bloblast]

Oleg,

Nice water effect and nice boats.

Oleg, I wonder what might happen when aircraft
lands on the water, might it stay afloat for a while?

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Bloblast

Oleg,

Nice water effect and nice boats.

Oleg, I wonder what might happen when aircraft
lands on the water, might it stay afloat for a while?

Yes.