Friday 2009-12-18 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[TheGrunch]

My God, I can't wait to see some videos of all this in motion. Do you guys plan to make full use of all the new (or at least shinily rebranded) features of DX11 like all this compute shader and hardware tesselation business?
I have to agree with zapatista and co., I've lived in England for most of my life and spent a year and a half living in France as a child and I haven't seen a great many perfectly manicured fields. Lawns are a different business! All the same, obviously the length of grass at airfields isn't completely irrelevant, I recall reading a pilot's autobiography in which he mentioned that during the summer months waiting at dispersal, taking turns to use the lawnmower was a pleasant distraction from waiting for a call from the dispersal hut. I can't remember whose it was though, but I didn't read it very long ago.
Some of the things that people mention like tree branches that wave in the wind sound really good if they're only visible on the highest LOD model for an object. This game is already looking like a full-blown GPU axe-murderer in scale alone, without the final attractive fiddly details.
I have to agree with the person who said the nose of the 109 looks a bit plastic, as well, I think it's just that there's a couple of hard edges missing between the cooler intake and the rest of the cowling that give it a tiny hint of a vacuum-formed plastic look, but that's such an easy thing to fix, of course. Otherwise the aircraft looks absolutely perfect, if a bit clean and pristine even for a newly delivered one. Perhaps worth considering the length of test flights and the ferry flight to decide how dirty new aircraft look.

[mazex]

I don't like hearing that Oleg is being sick again - I really hope it's not something serious?

Get well! /Mazex

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by mazex

I don't like hearing that Oleg is being sick again - I really hope it's not something serious?

Get well! /Mazex

its winter in russia now, so hopefully its just a flu/cold

[Foo'bar]

Let's hope the map at the screenshot isn't a hint for SoW's size of map... would be rather small.

[Insuber]

Don't think so, Oleg said that Belgium will be included.

Bye,
Insuber

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

Let's hope the map at the screenshot isn't a hint for SoW's size of map... would be rather small.

[FAE_Cazador]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

Let's hope the map at the screenshot isn't a hint for SoW's size of map... would be rather small.

Very good sight, Foo'bar, or should I say "Hawk Eye" ?

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by FAE_Cazador

Very good sight, Foo'bar, or should I say "Hawk Eye" ?

I'm just guessing here, but this image with the object with the map pointed by Foo'bar makes me beleive that we will able to chage the texture of the object and show a diferen map, a picture or something else, that could be in hand with the mission objective and add a little more atmosphere.
What the hell, if we could have a first person perspective and virtual body outside of plane, we could even make on multiplayer an outside briefing using this object and internal comms, that would be cool .


Luthier, if you tell me to get outside of your head again i will be scare too! D

[nearmiss]

I don't think that is the size of the map.

Principally, because after all the time that has been taken to produce the BOB SOW I would think it will be just about as comprehensive as they can make it.

All British and German airbases and landscapes will probably be represented very well.

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

I recall reading a pilot's autobiography in which he mentioned that during the summer months waiting at dispersal, taking turns to use the lawnmower was a pleasant distraction from waiting for a call from the dispersal hut. I can't remember whose it was though, but I didn't read it very long ago.

if that was in 1939/1940 i suspect it was one of those little hand driven old style mechanized mowers, and not a motorized one, hence the good exercise they got from it as a bit of a workout. i doubt it was a petrol engined mower they could have done larger area's with

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by zapatista

if that was in 1939/1940 i suspect it was one of those little hand driven old style mechanized mowers, and not a motorized one, hence the good exercise they got from it as a bit of a workout. i doubt it was a petrol engined mower they could have done larger area's with

Of course it was, yeah. I'm sure they weren't the only people who were cutting the grass, though. Pretty sure that's not a pilot's job unless there was something strange going on in the RAF. :p