#1533057 - 09/08/04 03:02 PM
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...of whats going on, in development, lately: first, the Type 42 destroyer getting ready to sail: We're starting to implement the damage system - it works in a similar way to current IL-2 - it's fully modular so adding more parts for damage with different textures for different kinds of damage is more a matter of content creation than programming, with a bit of scripting: The above screenshots are take from our test shell, where we open the model and can view if the animations are working and test the damage levels part by part without having to actually load the entire flight sim - so, the lighting and overall rendering is more simple in our test shell than in the flight sim itself. As soon as I got fully references for each aircraft model, we'll dive into the effort of modelling a very high detail mesh for the internals of the aircraft - this high detail mesh of the plane's skeleton will then serve for the purpose of creating the \'Normal Maps\' . These will make the relief of damaged surfaces much more appealing. Also it's interesting for the relief of rocky coastlines (common in the Falklands), although of course it will require current top graphic cards for full effect.
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#1533058 - 09/08/04 04:03 PM
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WOW! That is some seriously stunning stuff! On a percentage scale, how far along would you say you've come with Jet Thunder? Can't wait for it! Keep up the good work!
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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#1533059 - 09/09/04 01:17 AM
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On a percentage scale, how far along would you say you've come with Jet Thunder?
It's hard to say, there is so much things left to do ahead... Basically, we faced some problems related to terrain (integrating another coder's effort into the sim), this didn't happened yet, and the current terrain we feature is quite ok, but is severely lacking in view range and contour accuracy/roundness. The sim will officially only enter alpha status when this issue is solved and an accurate and LOD-based terrain is up and running in the simulator. So, I've decided that we should shift the focus to programming the rest of the sim and deal with the terrain problem later. This did wonders for the project as Steve promptly programmed a system to assemble multi-part objects that I'm really pleased with enabling to do the required complex damage system, amongst other things. Steve is also working in making the sim scriptable through LUA (like Lomac). With these steps done, all integrated into the engine and working, we could consider half the work done - it'll possibly look and play like a current flight sim - the other half of the project would deal with campaign, avionics and multiplayer. So far, campaign has some bits of code related to route-finding algorithms, so it's embrionary. Avionics will and FM will be modular enough to share the workload amongst other members of the dev team. Multiplayer: we already connected and flew together (myself and Steve, Steve starting the client in one of his rigs, and myself running the client here and connecting to see Steve flying around - at this point in development history, we didn't had collision detection yet, so the test was basically to check if one saw the other and latency/pings (good or bad). With some luck, one more year ahead of full crunch mode and we might enter Beta.
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#1533060 - 09/09/04 02:23 AM
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wow, a busted A4 is dadburn ugly
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#1533066 - 09/10/04 08:23 PM
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You get it to market, I guarantee I'll buy it! Cheers! Rick...
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#1533067 - 09/10/04 08:32 PM
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**DONOTDELETE**
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What they said Dano.
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#1533075 - 09/11/04 06:59 PM
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CD WOFF
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