Friday 2010-05-07 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

I don't like to show even what is ready, but not tuned to the eye cundy. You know, always we found some people that din't read notices in dev update.


Today I was almost ready to post such combat pictures, but then found some really bad glitches and decided to do not post. Simply because of things that I told right now above...


There was battle of stukas with spitfires, Fiats G50 in flights, Dornie, He-115, etc...

Don't tease us!

Oleg, any chance for an update on how clouds will be modelled? Of course everything is WIP, but IMO clouds have never been modelled perfectly in any sim to date; FSX and its add-ons came close, but they still aren't perfect (not that anything is ever perfect ) and with these screens you've shown, there seems to be great potential

[Stranzki]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

I don't like to show even what is ready, but not tuned to the eye cundy. You know, always we found some people that din't read notices in dev update.


Today I was almost ready to post such combat pictures, but then found some really bad glitches and decided to do not post. Simply because of things that I told right now above...


There was battle of stukas with spitfires, Fiats G50 in flights, Dornie, He-115, etc...

You know that torture is illegal?

[HB252]

Originally Posted by stranzki

you know that torture is illegal?

+10000

[Rodolphe]

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[lbuchele]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

I don't like to show even what is ready, but not tuned to the eye cundy. You know, always we found some people that din't read notices in dev update.


Today I was almost ready to post such combat pictures, but then found some really bad glitches and decided to do not post. Simply because of things that I told right now above...


There was battle of stukas with spitfires, Fiats G50 in flights, Dornie, He-115, etc...

It´s definitely coming close , don´t you think?
Oleg, do you think a system spec will be available soon?

[Romanator21]

Forgot to mention that today's was a good update. There really is a good sense of scale in these shots. The hangars look enormous, ready to fit a plane! In Il-2 the sizing of objects is right, but one can't really get a sense of how large they really are.

Lighting is excellent, colors are looking great. The clouds in the first and third shots are awesome, pretty much spot on. It looks like they will be pretty big as well. Sky and atmospheric haze looks great. Can't wait to see the dogfight with the G-50s.

I'm wondering, how will high altitude appear in SoW? Il-2 is optimized for low altitude, and as a result, when zooming upward to 20,000 meters in an Me-163, the entire ground surface below me is contained within a circle, which looks pretty weird to say the least

[easytarget3]

Thanks,very good atmosfere, and detail.keep up the great work.

[BadAim]

Spot on, Oleg. I think these shots are freaking beautiful, and do well to show how awesome this sim is going to be. The scale, the detail, the "feel". Just plain old sweet. /fanboi

[Insuber]

A lifelike ground environment ... and the new grass looks much better, with shades depicting slight undulations of the ground and height differences.

I like also the visible effort to create a complex cloud system, in the Bf110 pic you can see both cirrus clouds and cumulus clouds. The cirrus clouds should be much brighter thou, even at sunset, and so the top of cumuli.
I guess that we should be patient and wait the final result

Cheers,
Insuber

[SavageBliss]

This may be the wrong forum, however I'm trying to find out why I can't get Il2 FB working on my new system.

Also is SoW a stand alone game or an IL2 mod.

Previously fo rthe past three years I've been flying IL2 FB, with the AAA unified installer. However my new system just wont seem to run the stuff.

Failing all that, is there a new "Best" prop sim out for the new systems?