CoD vs some other sims that model Kent?

[Hatch]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

WoP can do all that because it's an arcade game on a tiny map with green puke covering up all the stuff that doesn't look quite so good.

Well those are actually separate issues.
It's kinda like saying Cindy Crawford is ugly beacuse she has a mole and doesn't play rugby.(Choice of Cindy does put my age into perspective LOL)

It's more like...
It looks good but it's covered in green puke and is arcadey.

[pupaxx]

I cleaned the greenpuke....
C'mon some serenity in judging this...
CoD.jpg WoP.jpg

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

I cleaned the greenpuke....
C'mon some serenity in judging this...
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If you were looking for images where WoP looks better than CoD, you made a very poor choice. That CoD image almost looks like a photo.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Hatch

Well those are actually separate issues.
It's kinda like saying Cindy Crawford is ugly beacuse she has a mole and doesn't play rugby.(Choice of Cindy does put my age into perspective LOL)

It's more like...
It looks good but it's covered in green puke and is arcadey.

No, they're not separate things. If you have a tiny map you can display things up close that you can't in a game with a huge map. A huge map ties up a lot of memory tracking things you can't see, while the game with the tiny map can use that memory to display more details up close.

The green puke can be used to hide things that don't look so good. In IL-2 (and from what I have heard, CoD) buildings tend to "pop up" in the distance. WoP uses green puke to hide that.

[Hatch]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

No, they're not separate things. If you have a tiny map you can display things up close that you can't in a game with a huge map. A huge map ties up a lot of memory tracking things you can't see, while the game with the tiny map can use that memory to display more details up close.

The green puke can be used to hide things that don't look so good. In IL-2 (and from what I have heard, CoD) buildings tend to "pop up" in the distance. WoP uses green puke to hide that.

Still separate issues.
The reason why is perhaps mitigating but not in an absolute sense.
If it looks crap it looks crap.
Covering it in a green haze wouldn't hide that.

Other scenarioin WoPs like battle of the bulge look stunning and are more lifelike in hue.|
Only as if you fly low do you see the tricks employed.

Still... up high it looks extremely good.

As in photography.
Sharpness is a technical issue quite separate from the artistic worth.
A beautiful picture does not have to be sharp.
And a sharp picture does not have to be beautiful.