Friday 2010-08-20 Dev. update and Discussions

[major_setback]

What! No trees?


Happy Birthday Oleg!!

[Richie]

The fuel spray on that 2nd 110 is really cool.

[drafting]

I think the fire and smoke effects look great, and I don't mean to be that guy (the complaining guy), but it looks like the dark, thick smoke effects are coded to turn on at full strength (like a light switch) at the moment...

Maybe they'd look a little better if there was a transition to the full smoke effect from something like a puffy explosion or a gradual opacity increase?

I've added the original shot at the top along with two photoshopped effects to show what I mean:



...again, sorry to nit-pick and all that. Maybe though, since BoB is still in production, this might be a useful post?

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by drafting

I think the fire and smoke effects look great, and I don't mean to be that guy (the complaining guy), but it looks like the dark, thick smoke effects are coded to turn on at full strength (like a light switch) at the moment...

Maybe they'd look a little better if there was a transition to the full smoke effect from something like a puffy explosion or a gradual opacity increase?

I've added the original shot at the top along with two photoshopped effects to show what I mean:



...again, sorry to nit-pick and all that. Maybe though, since BoB is still in production, this might be a useful post?

I agree and I don't think your post is useless at all; far from it in fact.

I think the smoke and fire are coming along nicely, but I still think work can be done in places to make it super-duper

[furbs]

yer...agreed that looks better...but im sure we will see something like that in the finished game.

[Bloblast]

Well done, I prefer edit2. The smoke fading away looks good.

[philip.ed]

I agree, edit 2 looks great. But wouldn't the smoke dissipate a lot more, rather than remain in that cylider style shape?

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Got to admit the 14 FPS is very scary considering that its in low res without DX11, otherwise a lovely update. Fire and smoke look good from a distance, at least as good as some of the modded stuff you can get for IL2, I would imagine this will look real nice with max settings and in DX11

How is it that people who know what 'FPS' means can't understand what 'WIP' means, even after other people have pointed it out.

Or is this some sort of competition to see who can make the most negative comment on each week's update? Can anyone tell me what the prize is?

[drafting]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I agree, edit 2 looks great. But wouldn't the smoke dissipate a lot more, rather than remain in that cylider style shape?

Haha, remember that I'm not on their payroll!

[winny]

It would be good if the smoke started in both ways, explosion followed by fire or just straight fire, depending on where you hit the target.