Idea for the new intro video for WOFF:

When the cat meouws from the grammophone, the dog could turn it's head
and make: "WOFF!"

Thats a good one!

or.....

JUST RELEASE THE GAME!

Well-put, VP. And I'm really looking forward to that music postmortem.

Hello,

About the Albatros Dv´s. The Rib tape colors i have seen different version. The tapes color ofcoursce depends from the light. The dusk in the movie the tape looks quite dark.

The ailerons and elevator are not taped.

Cheers

Arto

Thanks for the answer and clarification, Paarma.
Could you please share your info on the rib tape colours?

As I said in my original post, I know (speaking for Johannisthal variants) about salmon pink and I have seen lavender,
discovered at the Australian War Museum Restoration research.
Also the rudders didn't have taping.
Here is an OAW example, but tapeless anyway...

Since the "rib tape" had to be applied on the Lozenge fabric, I guess they would have used
one colour from the Lozenge pattern. Why else should anyone make pink rib tapes?

So I bet, you'd find the salmon, the blue and the lavander were all colours from Lozenge.

those model kit sheets are invaluable. my hobby is designing and making computer games, and I find these sheets really helpful when it comes to texturing. Most companies will have scale drawings too which helps with building the models.
Of course different companies have a different take on each one, and it's impossible to find accurate information, even from war records. If you go to two museums and look at the same plane with the same paint scheme, they'll look different.

Well, I think this Halberstadt is still original Lozenge (although I don't say I'm sure).
Note: the ribtape is made of Lozenge fabric here.

Not the case for Albatros though Olham...

The lozenge and rib tapes are based on the replica dva of Josef Mai. Also i compared different profiles. Here is also good resource for colors: http://www.wwi-models.org/misc/Colors/index.html. I also need the worn-out a bit the colors and tweak the colors fit to enviroment in sim. Cant use the exact colors in the simulator because those looks useally too bright.

I dont remember where i got the idea of rib tape the edges of rudder. Need to look it again.

Cheers

Arto

I know this site, Paarma, but thanks anyway.
Check this out:

http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2008/04/11/albatros-fabric-research/

IMHO, TVAL's representation of Mai's plane is dubious...
They used light blue tape (and only on the upper surfaces...why?),
obviously because in the b/w photo of the original plane the taping looks bright,
as light blue appears in orthochromatic film. (but light blue ribbons were used by OAW).
Mai's machine was Johannisthal made. (Johannisthal used salmon that photographs dark in orthochromatic).

1. We don't know for sure, the kind of film that was used in that vintage photo shoot. (panchromatic or orthochromatic).
2. As the the fabric research of the Australian War Museum discovered,
lavender coloured tapes could have well be used by Johhanisthal Werke along with the standard salmon pink.
(lavender=light purple, also photographs light in orthohromatic film).




Just my thoughts...

elephant, I KNOW that it is not the case for Albatros.
You should know that I know it, from many previous posts between us.
I posted the Halberstadt, because Matt doubted the colour chart I had sent before.
The Halberstadt MIGHT show the right Lozenge colours.

I only made an additional note for the Lozenge ribtape,
because I had never seen it this way anywhere before.

Apologies, I just couldn't see the relevance...
The colours of the lozenge fabric are more or less known from fragments.
The real mystery is the green-mauve combination...
I'm still dizzy from our last conversation on that matter...

OK best take this conversation out of the movie preview thread I think thanks guys.

Just seen this latest movie.. brilliant!
I know I'm going to be a convert to this

OK, so it's the best preview of a sim I've ever seen, and well, OK, the action looks spectacular. I quite liked the music, having just been subjected to my daughter's latest ....stuff. And, well, now that POL, WINDING MAN, and the rest of the DEV'S have cobbled this together, what on earth will they do for an encore?

Do these poor guys have anything left...?

I certainly feel privileged to be a part of this, and you know, my new NVIDIA 560 OEM overclocked video card might come in handy

Cheers,

Britisheh

Saw it again today - it works well in full screen (with the highest YouTube resolution).
I only noticed it was a video, when my stick wouldn't react on any of the craft.

- Matt Milne seems to have written more parts for WOFF, as this movie reveals.
The man has the right heart and hands for writing the perfect emotional tunes for the most immersive air combat sim.

- No man's land: the burning truck, the advancing tanks (did they ever do that before?). The ground battle scene is looking very realistic.

- In the Camel cockpit even an energy-fighter like me would feel fine now - only thing missing is a coffee machine - stunning, brilliant art work!

- Through the added detail, the Camel as well as the Dr.1 don't appear like midgets no more - they now look like dangerous combat craft.

- The FE2b now also looks bigger - like a real two-seat fighter and bomber - very impressive.
It pays to stop the movie, when you come to the struts and rigging of the Fee - great job!

- The new AI is fabulous. The split attack of the Albs. Really outstanding: one pilot of a flight circling to check the lower six - finding enemies -
this is sooooo lovely! (I know "lovely" doesn't seem to fit here, but it IS lovely to see this!)

Olham did you mean to put this on the preview #3 thread ? There are some vids showing the cockpit of the Albatros fighters - or at least showing parts of it including the whole forward section being new in view, windshield, gun, sights, ammo, radiator etc. For sure it's updated too.

Pol, I have watched the previous "Preview Movies" again, and there were better impressions
of the new Albatros. It doesn't appear so well in the latest video, but I saw what you mean.
I deleted the line, cause it wasn't appropriate - sorry.