Happy New Year discussion thread!

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by Xiola

Guys use VLC player , not media player.

VLC plays almost everything except realplayer movies and doesnt need codecs.

google vlc player

Finally said.

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by Xiola

Guys use VLC player , not media player.

VLC plays almost everything except realplayer movies and doesnt need codecs.

google vlc player

Exactly!.

With windows player i also had black video, but noh problem with vlc player. The final seccond when you pass the opening doors and the cockpit illuminate because of the sun light its great. Also the hangar looks great.

As asked on the "give me some ^%$% ideas" thrad from Luthier. It would be great if we can set on a mission instruments missing or already damaged, and you have to fly without that instrument functioning.

Great update, and happy new year!

[Eldur]

Originally Posted by Xiola

Guys use VLC player , not media player.

VLC plays almost everything except realplayer movies and doesnt need codecs.

google vlc player

... is evil

And IIRC I've played real videos with it already. Very old ones (>5 yo) though. Haven't seen any other real media for quite some time, which is good. Only exception are the samples on Amazon where you can listen to bits of music . They play in VLC without problems.
I still use WMP as default though, unless it's not capable of playing things. And good ol' Winamp for music

BTW: Do we get glass refraction in SoW? I don't want to have 100+ pages threads on the FW-190 bar again

[Robert]

Happy New Year Oleg and crew. Thanks for th update. Love the 110 'pits.


re the video clip: Is it as bright as the above picture on most other monitors? I can view it and am glad to see a new dimension brought to the game, but I see it nowhere near that brightly.

[Lemmi]

Happy new year Oleg & Team and many thanks for the update.

[Insuber]

Nice video ... it should be the very first original BoB video, AFAIK ...

[Foo'bar]

The reflection on the glass I like very much, that's a nice detail. But call me a nutpicker, the shadow's reflection should look rather like in the right example:

[KG26_Alpha]

Not sure that was a good idea showing the Hangar avi

The rest of the info is appreciated though.

Happy New Year

[Lucas_From_Hell]

The differential of REALLY good sims is detail, and I'm glad we have some chaps like Foo'bar to bother the devs because of the slightest glitch.

Nice eyesight you have there, eh ?

[AdMan]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

The reflection on the glass I like very much, that's a nice detail. But call me a nutpicker, the shadow's reflection should look rather like in the right example:

that would be correct if what you were seeing is the reflection of the shadow but that is not the case, the shadow seems to be simply causing the glass to reflect the frame structure differently where it passes over. In any case, raytracing algorithms are completely up to the render engine, so it's not really a issue like an artist having perspective problems. Maybe the bounces are low for performance reasons which causes less detail/realism but the shadows and reflections are calculated as closely as the equation of the renderer allows. So basically, you're arguing mathematics with a computer, which most would consider futile.