franksvalli,

some of those video's look very good, thx for posting

one in particular showed what looked like very good ground scenery from about 1500 to 2000 meters altitude, trees, woods, fields and vilages as far as the eye could see !

rather different then the flat empty textures i have seen in most beta youtube's so far

Updated - thanks!

Downloading it now, then going to upload to YouTube (it should have a "watch in HD" option) if you don't mind!



Yeah it's nice to see RoF from a variety of "angles", including this one .

plz upload to youtube franksvalli!

Thanks again for posting the video, Egatiro! This is really an awesome clip. Not only do we get to see the rainy weather effects in action, but also the low clouds flying past, with the nice scenery in the background. It looks REALLY good! Probably one of the best vids I've seen so far.

I noticed it was posted directly from the raw Fraps video, so I compressed it down and posted a mirror (see below). The compressed video is at 10,000kbps so it looks very good still, thanks to Xvid compression

Also uploaded it to YouTube - the HD version of the video takes a bit longer for YouTube to process, so it might be about a half an hour or so.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVnHeCAWuU
Mirror (37mb): http://wwiaircombat.com/videos/rof-egatiro.avi

(also updated the first post)

Edit: oh and check out the pilot animation!
Edit: HD version is up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVnHeCAWuU&hd=1

awesome clip...

thank you for the great effort Frank!

Thank you for compressing this large file.
I have no experience in video editing, so your help is much appreciated.

BTW, I am making new video - "A Nice Day for Flying" featuring D7 flying combat mission in early morning summer 1917:)

both look pretty bad to me, what am i missing ?

the medium to far away scenery looks ok, the rain and some misting prevent visibility and the effect is quite good, but for nearby objects (the cockpit and aircraft itself) it looks pretty ugly to me. i have been in small aircraft during heavy rain while landing and taking off at smaller regional airfields, none of the nearby scenery or aircraft exterior ever looked like that to me. similarly i have driven in an open top roadster car during the rain with the top down, and the dashboard or car exterior never looked like that either

i'd 2e what the earlier poster said about the same clip, the inside and the outside of the aircraft the pilot is flying looks pretty ugly to me, but the distant scenery reduced visibility looks good

I can image the rain splashing on the goggles while looking straight ahead but for it to be blasting at the same strength while looking sideways or backwards doesn't seem right to me. I'd even go so far as to say that I'd prefer it if the effect was only visible on the windshield.

The Big problem comes from the optometry.
A human eye can't accomodate (get focus on) at such close distance as the glass in googles. So the rain drops must be out of focus, unsharp, making picture blurring:)
But the illusion looks great:)