Friday 2010-04-02 Video and Discussion Thread

[luthier]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

If the Dorniers in the video had looked like this:



instead of this:


Then this video would have been sooo much more jawdropping!

It's just a matter of angle and also some video compression. Here's the same shot from the same track taken from a different angle.

You obviously will only see shiny rivets and reflection off of raised surfaces when looking at an aircraft from a certain angle.

If I changed the time of day in the track then it'd look even closer to the Bf-110 shot.

This is all basic DX9.

[Skarphol]

Thanks Luthier!

You are of course right. My point was that people are complaining about the video, and I was trying to show that the level of detail is much higher than what is shown in the video, as with the Bf-110-picture wich I find absolutely fantastic. If the Dorniers had been shown with the same level of details, I guess much of this critizism had not been posted.
After reading the replies to my post I realise that a lot of people didn't understand my intention, so I guess I have to work on my english.

By the way; the new picture of the Dornier looks stunning too! Never noticed the variant with V-engines before.

Skarphol

[Flanker35M]

S!

SoW looks good even in DX9 and as WIP Can't wait to see it in full DX11 glory!

[Snuff_Pidgeon]

MMMMM V-Engines gorgeous Dohhh!

[Skarphol]

I just noticed in the new picture of the Dornier you can see the bullet holes from the .303s! That was totally lost in the original low-res video!

Skarphol

[Necrobaron]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

I just noticed in the new picture of the Dornier you can see the bullet holes from the .303s! That was totally lost in the original low-res video!

Skarphol

Good eye! I'm thinking this is the first time we've seen this.

With all the nitpicking going on, I'm surprised no one brought up the fact that there is no shrapnel from the hits the Dornier is taking. I'm sure this this will be seen at a later date/build.
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[robtek]

Where should the "shrapnel" come from?
From those itsy bitsy .303 holes?
There must be many more hits before parts are torn away.

[Necrobaron]

Originally Posted by robtek

Where should the "shrapnel" come from?
From those itsy bitsy .303 holes?
There must be many more hits before parts are torn away.

Pepper a plane in IL-2, even with a rifle caliber MG, and you'll get a nice shower of metal. I don't know if that's correct or not, but it definately is noticeable here in its absence compared to IL-2...
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[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Necrobaron

I'm surprised no one brought up the fact that there is no shrapnel from the hits the Dornier is taking. I'm sure this this will be seen at a later date/build.

Actually, there is. Probably not noticeable in the video embedded in the page, but I downloaded it to my PC and used VLC Media Player to play it back.

This allows you to enlarge the video picture considerably and you can clearly see small pieces of debris being shed by the Dornier. They are MUCH smaller than in il2, but this is as should be with small calibre .303 rounds.

So, all present and correct.

I'll see if I can get a screen print of it, but may not come across too well.

[kendo65]

Hope this comes out ok.

I used Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter to make things a little more clear as the quality is poor when you blow the video up in size, but rest assured nothing added or otherwise manipulated in this - the debris is clearly visible beneath the Dornier.

As robtek said they are not much more than "paintflakes" or "metal-flakes", but they are there!