Friday update and discussions 2011-03-18

[Raggz]

Simply brilliant. The amount and the attention to details is just staggering. Can't wait to get my hands on the game
That Stuka attack in slow motion gave me a small orgasm

[I/ZG52_Gaga]

Very nice videos !!

It seems that flying over the city would require from the user to get a CRAY II type

supercomputer ... i don't think that we will be able to dogfight over london with acceptable

frame rate eh?

I got a Core 2 6300 @ 1.86Ghz with 2 Giga RAM and a GTX 460 with 1 Giga Ram
& i don't think i'll be able to get new components..... and it looks like that i won't be able to play the game either with acceptable graphics detail ...

[FlatSpinMan]

You'd be amazed. My Pc is way below minimum spec for Rise of Flight but I can play small missions on pretty high settings. I on't have much time to fly so I haven't tried bigger missions, like campaigns or anything, but just flying about learning the foibles of each plane in RoF is fine for me right now.

[CharveL]

Originally Posted by Robert

I think it's the compression used to create the file for You Tube download. Notice the fades in and out of black. Very choppy.

Like I said, it looks more like the editors took 30fps output from the in-game track recorder and slowed it down for effect, essentially dropping frames. It's the only thing that really detracts from their efforts really as the other aspects are pretty decent.

[Sutts]

Tumbling bombs look great. Also good to see the He111 bombs falling from their vertical stowage position. I do believe that the He111 bomb doors were spring loaded though and opened and sprung back as the bombs fell through them. Perhaps someone could confirm?

I'm a bit confused by the damage to the German bombers caused by the .303 ammo of the Spits and Hurris. I remember you saying that cannon shells would cause panel damage (big holes, tears etc) while rifle caliber ammo would make small holes where they hit (just like in real life). From what I can see, the .303 rounds are making huge holes in the fuselage which just didn't happen. Looks nice I must say but isn't backed up by evidence.

Perhaps you could clarify please?

Very happy overall though. Good job.

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by Sutts

I'm a bit confused by the damage to the German bombers caused by the .303 ammo of the Spits and Hurris. I remember you saying that cannon shells would cause panel damage (big holes, tears etc) while rifle caliber ammo would make small holes where they hit (just like in real life). From what I can see, the .303 rounds are making huge holes in the fuselage which just didn't happen. Looks nice I must say but isn't backed up by evidence.

Perhaps you could clarify please?

Very happy overall though. Good job.

I'm going to assume that in the vid gun damage has been upped via an option (ie to make it easier for beginners). Probably so that they get a nice hollywood video for people to get excited about instead of the plinkity plink of realistic .303 rounds settings.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by CharveL

Like I said, it looks more like the editors took 30fps output from the in-game track recorder and slowed it down for effect, essentially dropping frames. It's the only thing that really detracts from their efforts really as the other aspects are pretty decent.

It could be. From my experience I've had video's look bad at 15 fps and at 30 fps (15 for improved DL speed). Because of that I always use multi pass encoding (4x) from Sorenson squeeze. TBH, I've never tried straight AVI into You Tube because of the size restrictions, so I compress. I'm obviously assuming this was done the same way. I've never in my memory had issues with slow motion, though. The first clip's slow motion is flawless.



Either way, I don't think it's a defect of the game per se, but a side effect of online display. Sadly it does slightly diminish from the overall oooooooooh and ahhhhhhhhhhh of the first clip. Still a beaut.

As I said. Delicious pudding.