#2277874 - 08/06/07 04:44 PM
Re: GT's Non-Update update page.
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Actually there's plenty of surviving aerial photos from the period As I said... only on the frontline area... And he map cover much more than just the front area. The british archive covers even less... only the Northern part of the front area I have access to the french archives, and not only are they in B&W, but the quality is also quite bad (the glass plates have been stored in non-optimal places). And sometimes, the glass plates don't even exist any more, what's staying is paper "contact" pictures, quite old, with very low residual contrast and scratches everywhere. The kind of document may help to model some parts of the front... no more. For the rest, the maps are the only source (but of good quality, largelly enough for a good modelling).
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#2278513 - 08/07/07 01:36 PM
Re: GT's Non-Update update page.
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#2279052 - 08/08/07 02:05 AM
Re: GT's Non-Update update page.
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Are we not getting a little too picky over terrain detail? As long as the cities are in the right spot and there is a frontline I'll be happy. It's not going to bother me in the slightest if the hill or farm house that my burning Camel buries itself into wasn't historically there.
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#2279281 - 08/08/07 12:38 PM
Re: GT's Non-Update update page.
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Interesting ... note the wind scoops in the tail surfaces of the balloon used to keep the nose of the ballon pointed "into" the wind. I hadn't noticed these before in other shots. Knowing this gives an approaching pilot the current wind direction and could be a pretty useful in an aerial combat situation. Are this really ingame shots, not just drawings? Nope, I went back and looked at my archived screenshots and sure enough, the scoops are there!
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#2280386 - 08/09/07 07:41 PM
Re: GT's Non-Update update page.
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Interesting ... note the wind scoops in the tail surfaces of the balloon used to keep the nose of the ballon pointed "into" the wind. I hadn't noticed these before in other shots. Knowing this gives an approaching pilot the current wind direction and could be a pretty useful in an aerial combat situation. Are this really ingame shots, not just drawings? A bit of both, sort of game art.
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#2281832 - 08/11/07 10:52 AM
Re: GT's Non-Update update page.
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Aliasing on the wires and wire shadows (if not compression artifacts) may mean that the image is based on an ingame shot
Looks nice down there, thanks for the heads-up FR. Very nice artwork Gennadich!
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#2281923 - 08/11/07 02:33 PM
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Yes, they've changed it.
I still think it looks a bit bogus, 3D model or in game shots please GT.
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#2286570 - 08/16/07 10:11 PM
Re: GT's Non-Update update page.
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I still think it looks a bit bogus
Guaranteed to PO a developer a word like bogus and seems a mite unkind being as how we don't bite the hand that feeds us now do we. Bogus meaning faked, underhand in some way, fraudulent
Gennadich owes us nothing and will please bring us a new WW1 sim. If we don't attack them for no good reason months before takeoff
I think it looks charming and refreshing and talented.
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#2288014 - 08/18/07 08:28 PM
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Good grief, if they get narked at that comment they aren't going to last long in games development Its nice concept art Is that the dev team in the cockpits perchance?
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#2288114 - 08/18/07 11:50 PM
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They told me to tell you it's just beautiful what more do you need to know can't it just exist out there without having to be about something all the time and another thing you never listen I said four pounds of potatoes and a tin of tomatoes not ten Silk Cut and a half bottle of brandy
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