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Topic: Some amazing screenshots...!!
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Aui
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posted 12-16- 03:33 PM
   
I'm completely... eh amazed. No words for it, but I want that water and coastline! http://www.avsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID33/11667.html http://www.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&omm=6&om=20149&forum=DCForumID8 http://www.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=20149&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0 I don't even have fly!2...
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Killer-Ants
Pilot
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posted 12-17- 08:27 AM
We need that land! Someway! Imagine that costline in a D-Day mission!!!  K-A IP: Logged |
semmern
Pilot
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posted 12-17- 10:17 AM
Whoa, I need that sim!IP: Logged |
Sv
JAG
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posted 12-17- 11:15 AM
I have been a fan of Fly! for a while, the best sky in a sim IMO... as far as coulds at least. Funny that Fly! clouds where better than Fly!2, but I'm sure that will change.In fact Wings with Wires is hosting DEM data and land use data of the entire US for TerraScene, a free-ware program that lets you easily create a great baseline terrain for anywhere in the US... including 7.5m DEM mesh and creates photo-real terrain based on generic land-use tiles placed using real land-use and road maps, etc. TerraScene is just really, really neat. The Fly!2 instruments look and work great... but no virtual cockpit. The FM is OK for a cival sim I guess... feels like all other civalian sims. Sound are pretty darn good in Fly! though. Shipping terrain is minimal, the add-ons are the real treasure... downloading them and creating them. The Fly! community is the closest thing to the SDOE community in the civial sim world... great guys, all of them. And an under-appreciated sim. ------------------
-Sv
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Spanky the Mad Dog
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posted 12-17- 03:08 PM
I don't like it at all.
I have never liked sat textures in games. WHY? Cause as soon as you get low it looks like a horribly pixelly or blury mess and those forrests that looked so cool from up high are just a different color of ground. Nope, I say don't bother with the forest texture until you can have a real forest down there. Really almost everything about all those pics just looked pasted together, the clouds and buildings didn't fit with the terrain and the plane didn't fit with any of it. IP: Logged |
Jerry+
Pilot
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posted 12-17- 03:29 PM
Spanky, normally that's right. But did you look at all these pictures. Even the one's down low look as good as SDOE terrain down low....and they also show individually textured trees and objects. Somewhere the terrains transition from the sat photos to a SDOE type.IP: Logged |
Sv
JAG
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posted 12-17- 04:21 PM
That might have been true in the old days Spanky, but our planes go from 256 textures to 1024, don't think that doesn't help the terrain as well. Ever see FUIII shots? This is much higher resolution than satalite... this is the quality of low altitude air photography.Or you can stick with the Il-2 "green carpeted world" landscape. I know, I know, IL-2 is the first perfect sim and everyone loves it. Good for them  IP: Logged |
Diego Lozano
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posted 12-17- 09:25 PM
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!Spanky,
That's the best terrain you've ever seen...go on admit it. Look at the little nuances in the shallow water. Name me one sim that does NOT texture trees. Even the much touted IL2 has fallen way short with its famous trees. Have you seen that mess down low? IP: Logged |
Sv
JAG
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posted 12-17- 10:31 PM
That transition to water is handled by a "water mask." There is a grey-scale file that tells the engine where is water and where is land. The black is water and the white is land I think. But if you blur the edge between water and land, you get a nice transparent effect as the two meet... very interesting and realistic effects have been created using this...
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Diego Lozano
Pilot
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posted 12-17- 11:13 PM
Sv,
I really cant get over that shorline. Where do I get FlyII and Terrascene?IP: Logged |
Nat
JAG
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posted 12-18- 08:16 PM
everyone loves IL-2? >;/IP: Logged |
Aui
Pilot
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posted 01-16- 01:26 PM
That scenery again...... ahh!! 
 The original post with those pics can be found here http://www.avsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID33/13083.html but the images didn't load for me so that's why I reposted them here. IP: Logged |
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