Patch 4.10 - Development Updates by Daidalos Team

[OberstDanjeje]

Thanks, the Ju88 was one of the worst aircraft in IL2

[Flanker35M]

S!

One mod that could be added as an official add-on is C6_Claymore's Fw190A-series cockpit repaints. They are a true piece of art and a lot of features added that are missing from the originals: ammo counters for MG FF, fuel low lamp corrected, pump lights, texts corrected etc. He has finished Fw190A-4, working on Fw190A-3 at the moment. Just a suggestion

[Flying_Nutcase]

Really amazing work with the circular torps. I'd never heard of them before now. A pretty good idea!

BTW Is there any chance of having ships respond with some kind of manoeuvre, based on probability, to simulate the chance of seeing, tracking and responding to a torpedo (straight or circular)? For example, speed increase or reduction, evasive turn or a 360. Similiar for when under attack by dive-bombers. I'm sure it's been raised already but I've been out of the loop for a bit.

Anyway, all that you're doing for IL2 is tops. Many thanks!

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

One mod that could be added as an official add-on is C6_Claymore's Fw190A-series cockpit repaints. They are a true piece of art and a lot of features added that are missing from the originals: ammo counters for MG FF, fuel low lamp corrected, pump lights, texts corrected etc. He has finished Fw190A-4, working on Fw190A-3 at the moment. Just a suggestion

Shortly: never!
I do not say, it isn't looking good or that he doesn't care for details. But he is using textures sizes way out of allowed IL-2 standard (which obviously make it easy to let it look good). And I bet, if that all will be reworked to standards, it doesn't look good anymore... at least not better, than what is in game already.
Unfortunately it is the way with almost all repaint efforts in the modding scene.
This is something for FSX or SoW, but not for IL-2.

[Flanker35M]

S!

If Claymore can do a high res version like now I bet he can do a low res version fitting IL-2 "standard" as well And for sure would look better than the original cockpit. So we will never see an updated Bf109 cockpit either? It looks like shinola compared to new planes.

Anyways, keep up the good work Mods will compliment your work to bring details in that stock lacks.

[Viikate]

Caspar is right. I have to say that I like the looks of these pit repaints but the video memory consumed by the textures is really overkill. Specification limit is 8Mb (excluding damage & night tgas). For example Caspar's Hs-129 pit uses 7,5Mb and I wouldn't call that ugly.

Some of the pit repaints that I've checked use 100Mb or even 200Mb of textures and cause a serious FPS drop with older PCs. Backside of the DVD box says that minimum of 64Mb video memory is needed for this game.

Pit repaints could be optimized lot. There's lost of unused space (when the tgas & parts are taken from other pits and only small part is used), obsolete alpha channels, etc. Something like 16Mb-32Mb would be ok for me.

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Viikate

Caspar's Hs-129 pit uses 7,5Mb and I wouldn't call that ugly.

Some of the pit repaints that I've checked use 100Mb or even 200Mb of textures and cause a serious FPS drop with older PCs.

Pit repaints could be optimized lot. There's lots of unused space (when the tgas & parts are taken from other pits and only small part is used), obsolete alpha channels, etc. Something like 16Mb-32Mb would be ok for me.

I'd like to second the idea of officially re-doing pits for the 109 series, but I completely take on board what is said above regarding the mods.

I've tried the modded 109 cockpits and while they look great they are the only mod out of the many that I've used that really overwhelms my computer (not bleeding edge, but a solid system nonetheless Core 2 E8200, 4GB ram, gtx260).

Astounded to read above that a great looking cockpit can be made using only 7.5MB!!!

I'm also expecting my current system to be adequate for my early experiences with SOW (albeit with lowered settings), so, in contrast to Flanker I really wouldn't want to consider upgrading in order to run a 'heavy' official il2.

Looking forward to 4.10. Thanks to daidalos team for the great work.

[Fafnir_6]

Originally Posted by kendo65

I'd like to second the idea of officially re-doing pits for the 109 series, but I completely take on board what is said above regarding the mods.

I've tried the modded 109 cockpits and while they look great they are the only mod out of the many that I've used that really overwhelms my computer (not bleeding edge, but a solid system nonetheless Core 2 E8200, 4GB ram, gtx260).

Astounded to read above that a great looking cockpit can be made using only 7.5MB!!!

I'm also expecting my current system to be adequate for my early experiences with SOW (albeit with lowered settings), so, in contrast to Flanker I really wouldn't want to consider upgrading in order to run a 'heavy' official il2.

Looking forward to 4.10. Thanks to daidalos team for the great work.

I was in the same boat (Bf109 repaints)with my old computer. I found some repaints that used the redone structure of the high-detail repaints but substituted low detail textures for use on older computers. They ran just fine on my trusty old Athlon XP1800 w/ 3GB RAM and the after-burning Geforce6200 . I agree that 7.5MB for the Hs129B cockpit is impressive. If someone makes the Bf109s like that in an official patch it would rule.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6