Email from Oleg today...

"We did a special test of the driver's cab for one of the cars in our flight sim.
Probably it will be released together with the separate tools for third party developers as a sample 'how to make drivable cars'".

hehehehe it reminds me of the TB-3 cockpit!

Looks like an armor sim version could be in the works in the future.

I wonder if the engine can support such detail that far down.

That would be pretty cool. Right now the only games that support combined arms (air and land) are games like WW2OL (Battleground Europe) and to a lesser extent Aces High and Warbirds. I can imagine a game like SOW with co op missions for air and land attacks. Imagine guys in Stukas hitting forward targets while another group in PzKwIIIEs moving forward. That would be soooooo cool.

It is cool in Battleground Europe when it works right, it would be cool here too.

I believe Oleg has the idea that the SOW world will be cinematic (highly detailed). He may not be able to pull it off in BOB, but it may come to pass in later additions when computer become powerfull enough for large detailed maps. AMMA2 screenshots looke very realistic but I suppose its on a mcuh smaller map than BOB's.

I agree with what you say, Chivas but I believe there are much more difficult domains to master for achieving a "realistic" feeling:

- lighting conditions rendition (=use of radiosity, specular/diffuse lighting, use of RT ray tracing)
- atmospheric transparency
- clouds

All of them being linked...I think the real issue is there, and even the most powerful computers are far from being able to pull this off in real time, not even talking about clouds! I am still waiting to see a game with proper clouds...

A lot is happening right now, and the coming into force of multi-core CPU and GPU as well as associated new scalar computation programming techniques may allow to see something interesting in the 5-6 years to come...

JV

Imagine driving that thing, and watching in horor as a distant approaching fighter lines you up...RUN, run like the little people! lol

I don't think my marriage would survive a development like that.



...but bring it on anyway, I'm prepared to take the risk!

I am currently working on some french cars that I hope will be in the sim some day and I will definately be making them driveable now I am tweaking the 3d mesh of a Citroen (A) C4 Conduite Intériure 4 places and have started working on a citroen Traction Avant Cabriolet and with a bit of luck I will be having them all finished for the release of the game

Could be cool if Foo'bar makes his german fireengine driveable. Imagine holding by the runway and seeing a smoking fighter coming in to land and then racing towards it to put the fire out once it is on the ground

Henrik

Hopefully I'll get to fly some planes if they remember to include them..

LOL...

Truer words may never be spoken for many.

The 3rd party developers are going to have a field day with this Sim. I am certainly looking forward to the release of SoW myself as well.

Cheers,
Tip