Friday 2010-10-08 Dev. update and Discussion

[dduff442]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Colors of the vegetation are reading from the texture where they are... oops... I said some secret. So some time they originnal basic color maybe incorrect and looking vivid. Its what we are tuning.. relly ins't easy some time to get all looking right. But I hope we will get it finally... too many new technologies that were developed intially for this projet are going now at once.... Same was with Il-2 where about 20 new technics and technologies were presented for the first time in the world working right and without bugs....
Hope to get the same with this project... but its more harder to to greater overal complexity...

One problem is when it looks *real* it won't look *right*. 1940 was a hot summer and SE England doesn't look very English in late Aug - early Sep. The faded, brown-tinted colours are just right for leaves in September.

dduff

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by dduff442

The faded, brown-tinted colours are just right for leaves in September.
dduff

Sorry, where is such leaves?

Heh heh .. cheers Oleg.

[C_G]

OMG ! OMG ! OMG ! OMG !

<reaches for paper bag to reduce hyper-ventilation>

- raised railway bed!
- train engine steam which changes colour from sooty black to water vapour white as it gets going! (and the reference to it's opacity as a "bug", LOL)
- sweeeeeeet looking trees!
- issue of hurricane pilot head position being addressed...
- bushes, grass next to the tracks, shadows... all these things are adding to a very "real" virtual world experience where the objects look natural rather than plopped onto the screen.

I no longer have any doubt that my present computer is not going to be up to the task of rendering this at it's full potential...
I also no longer have any doubt that SoW:BoB is going to be a quantum leap ahead of IL-2 '46 and that I'm going to be BLOWN AWAY by it!

Am I in the throws of full-on fanboyism? You better believe it!

Special thanks to Foo'bar for expending his time and money to assist Oleg...

C_G

Originally Posted by C_G

OMG ! OMG ! OMG ! OMG !

<reaches for paper bag to reduce hyper-ventilation>

- raised railway bed!
- train engine steam which changes colour from sooty black to water vapour white as it gets going! (and the reference to it's opacity as a "bug", LOL)
- sweeeeeeet looking trees!
- issue of hurricane pilot head position being addressed...
- bushes, grass next to the tracks, shadows... all these things are adding to a very "real" virtual world experience where the objects look natural rather than plopped onto the screen.

I no longer have any doubt that my present computer is not going to be up to the task of rendering this at it's full potential...
I also no longer have any doubt that SoW:BoB is going to be a quantum leap ahead of IL-2 '46 and that I'm going to be BLOWN AWAY by it!

Am I in the throws of full-on fanboyism? You better believe it!

Special thanks to Foo'bar for expending his time and money to assist Oleg...

C_G

Welcome to the new fanboy. I've been an unapologetic fanboy for 8 years. SoW will take many years to explore but IL-2 will never die

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Old_Canuck

SoW will take many years to explore but IL-2 will never die

Probably you are right. Il-2 looks now like flying encyclopedy... But I hope that Sow will be the same in future but on another level.
But it will be possible only with the help of thid party, fans of aviation and users of the sim...
I hope all understand what this means.

Our team is still small. Way smaller than some of the teams making more simple games.

[dduff442]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Sorry, where is such leaves?

It's looking much more like summer than the early updates. A few trees will stay very green (e.g. Yew), but many more English species don't like the weather too hot.

dduff

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by dduff442

It's looking much more like than the early updates. A few trees will stay very green (e.g. Yew), but many more English species don't like the weather too hot.

dduff

Ok. I think we have good mix. We are not doing simulation of leaves and their changes during some months. Maybe in future we may do such things, but not now.

And I think you can't probably name me any other flight sim that has the same level of detail on the ground... And its only beginning of further developments in future... of course if this one first in a series will be successful.

PS. You can name some that are using satellite maps... But I don't think that with the close look they looks really nice in both ground and object details. At least any that are released.

[dduff442]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Sorry, where is such leaves?

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Ok. I think we have good mix. We are not doing simulation of leaves and their changes during some months. Maybe in future we may do such things, but not now.

And I think you can't probably name me any other flight sim that has the same level of detail on the ground... And its only beginning of further developments in future... of course if this one first in a series will be successful.

PS. You can name some that are using satellite maps... But I don't think that with the close look they looks really nice in both ground and object details. At least any that are released.

No complaints here!

[Tigertooo]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

. of course if this one first in a series will be successful.

You must be joking Mr Maddox, of course it will be successful