Friday 2010-11-26 Dev. update and Discussion

[McHilt]

Originally Posted by kalimba

Backgrounds ...What makes you conclude that these are not from the game, with some photoshop or something ?
Oleg said that the weather system, including clouds were almost done and needed to be integrated in the engine...Therefore my question: would that be a first glance at what is coming...
And if I am wrong, well Oleg will tell me...If he thinks my question is way off, well, he'll ignore it...Simple , no ?

Salute

Yeah, well I do believe these are shots taken from the game, at least it looks like it, the trees, buildings. The clouds...??
I think, just a hunch, that the cottonballs are a placeholder for sth totally wonderful... seeing all the stuff being so realistic I can't imagine the final clouds being the cottonballs we've seen so far, but we'll see, it's a mysterious shot anyway

Originally Posted by McHilt

Yeah,
I think, just a hunch, that the cottonballs are a placeholder for sth totally wonderful... seeing all the stuff being so realistic I can't imagine the final clouds being the cottonballs we've seen so far, but we'll see.

Exactly...Placeholders I am sure of that...Because Oleg did mention that final clouds and other features were done by only one guy in his team...That's why it took a while, and his work was not yet intergrated in SOW's engine...But maybe it is now but not ready for playabilty , but ok for screenshots....
So that picture could show some of the new clouds system....

Salute !

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by kalimba

Exactly...Placeholders I am sure of that...Because Oleg did mention that final clouds and other features were done by only one guy in his team...That's why it took a while, and his work was not yet intergrated in SOW's engine...But maybe it is now but not ready for playabilty , but ok for screenshots....
So that picture could show some of the new clouds system....

Looks to me like the background in that pic (ie the clouds) is a photograph that has been photoshopped in. All the rest of the elements (buildings, aircraft, balloons, flak) are from the game. (I'd be delighted to be proved wrong about the clouds though, but I doubt it...)

The 2 Heinkel pics look great. Lighting is first class and they really do look very close to photo quality. Flames seem to have been tweaked and improved - they look incredible in the first pic. Look forward to seeing it in motion.

Originally Posted by kendo65

Looks to me like the background in that pic (ie the clouds) is a photograph that has been photoshopped in. All the rest of the elements (buildings, aircraft, balloons, flak) are from the game. (I'd be delighted to be proved wrong about the clouds though, but I doubt it...)

It seems that some of us agree on the fact that the backgrounds are from the in game engine...And taking in consideration what Oleg said a few weeks ago about the new clouds (WIP) not yet implemented in SOW's engine, I freely extrapolated on the possibility that even the clouds we see in the shot #2 could be from in game too...That's all...A wishfull thinking !

Salute !

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by kalimba

It seems that some of us agree on the fact that the backgrounds are from the in game engine...And taking in consideration what Oleg said a few weeks ago about the new clouds (WIP) not yet implemented in SOW's engine, I freely extrapolated on the possibility that even the clouds we see in the shot #2 could be from in game too...That's all...A wishfull thinking !

Salute !

I'd love you to be right If the background is from in-game then things have really moved on. It just looks TOO good, but like I say I would like to be wrong on this.

How do you know it slid in from that angle, it could have slid in and ended up on its side...

If there were tracks we could tell

Why the tree didn't cut off the right wing of Hurricane on fifth shot?

I assumed that was the bug that Oleg referred to - one wing gets clobbered by a tree, but the other one falls off!

[mazex]

Bugs, what are you talking about? Shouldn't the landing lights have a backup battery and turn on if the wing gets disconnected from the fuselage?

[McHilt]

Originally Posted by mazex

Bugs, what are you talking about? Shouldn't the landing lights have a backup battery and turn on if the wing gets disconnected from the fuselage?

If the wing gets disconnected from the fuselage you don't need a landing light, let alone a backup battery for one.