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After almost 9 years at last we get mission editor, for $15 LoL :P I hope soon will get REPLAY too now that TW seems to be on a roll (those sell strategy ideas should had reached TK sooner :P)

Thank god the TODs got fixed fast :)

The Llighting ROCKS :D I never thought i'd like this "pregnant whale" i used to consider it of the ugliest planes ever. Great work though which makes it very very attractive :) and quite peculiar flight behavior, flies like a rocket, cant turn at low speeds but it does turn in high speeds. Too bad british industry wings got chopped off so badly, they surely always made planes with vibrant personality :)

- Except REPLAYS, other things i wait from TW are whole new up-to-date standards revamped terrain-ground structures/objects (and their effects - like GI shadows, animations etc), sea, sky, environment, .... For Vietnam, Europe at least. (Israel is noticeably better than the previous two) (not that i don't appreciate the community addons terrains ofcourse !)

- A TW "C" family (avionics) F-16C / F-15C / A-10C / AV-8B / Hornet A/C

- External camera Jitter and floating effects

(Also following the "C" - 3d generation family pack, a Euro-birds pack with Typhoon, Mirage 2000, Tornado, Gripen, Viggen, Harrier GR.5/7 :P

And ofcoure i consider granted the Tomcat pack :P

what is the world worth without F-80, T-33, F-84, MiG-15? :P

And I'm looking forward to that too!

 

If you can get hold of it, read the F-100 chapter in Bill Gunston's 'Early Supersonic Fighters of the West' - a brilliant read.

flash back ... I like Bill Gunston readings (kinda grew up with that stuff...)

Awesomely beautiful work ...... if you ask me, now with the recent (hopefully not temporary) revived activity in the sim area maybe a modern official Korea product is a good idea of a project .... I read somewhere i think that theres a third party Korea for SF2 mod in the works, what the situation with that ?

Awesome everyone ! :)

I haven't flown IL2 for many years and these days i am setting up my nephews notebook and he has expressed an interest in flight sims, and i thought IL2 is the best there is (to me) for all WWII flight simulation related, plus maybe old enough to run nicely in his notebook.

Its a Fijitsu Amilo Pi1536 :

- C2D T7200 2Ghz

- Radeon Mobility x1400 128mb (512 hypermemory)

- 2Gb 533mhz DDR2 ram

- XP SP3

my questions :

1. what you think or know would be the best settings , in catalysts panel and in game (and conf.ini?) for the best compromise between playablity and eyecandy ?

2. Is there a way to make different in game settings profiles that can launch with different game shortcuts? like a "low quality / high performance" shortcut that would load 1946 with such in-gane settings and another one that could load the game with best graphics settings

i have managed to activate the nice looking water and overall nice looking lighting , lowered everything in the catalysts, left only 2x FSAA on, lowered the in game settings too (left only visibility to high and landcape detail to perfect) and though the fps arent that bad, it suffers from severe hickups / stutters

(3. Is there some Battle of Britain map / mod for 1946 maybe ?)

Thank you

I haven't figured out what exactly from Tray tools did it but shadows now are ok with FSAA present and controlled by Tray Tools. (if AA controlled by the sim, shadows break) Tray Tools settings affect the game, now there are both FSAA and AF with no graphic glitches. In general though AA chocks framerates significantly just by being enabled no matter what settings (even at 800x600 resolution, tested it out of curiosity). Scenery density strangely doesn't seem to affect framerates much.

And SF2 look and perform a bit better than SF1 in this XP notebook.

Also, are you setting FSAA in the options.ini file? If so, try a value of "4".

What 4 in the options.ini stands for in this case ? does it mean 4x?

thanks :) are "1) Geometry Instancing, 2) Alternate Pixel Center" accessed by this ati tray tool ?

Thank you Fubar, looks like we have something here maybe. Little more info ? :) where do i find those first two ? How do i enable tools ?

I believe theres potential because with no AA and AF both gen sims run smoothly and graphics are glitchless even at 1280x800 and in-game settings @ High. i just can't tolerate the jaggs, shimering and lack of focus, results of the FSAA and Anisotropy absence.

is not making a difference, native or lower :( ..

I have just installed WOI and the whole SF2 range in an XP fijitsu notebook Amilo Pi1536 which has a Radeon X1400.

In both SF2 and WOI no matter what i do in the ATi contro panel there's no AA or AF in the game. The only way to enable and configure AA is from the options.ini , AA is enabled and configured from there. But when AA is enabled the shadows on the plane get glitchy, like checkers, and framerate drops significantly, no matter how low the AA value in options.ini . CC settings seem to affect nothing in SF2 and WOI. Drivers are DX9 "legacy" 10.2 (DX 6.14)

Any ideas how to make the CC settings work with the game ?

errrrmmmm , hmmmm both LOL

keep the info coming

jeee , yes, especially since he is an actual pilot

Come and get em fellas/fellattes, only here, at THE COMBATACE

 

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Only when the conditions are right for it, most notably at the approach of a warm front during winter. The contrails grow to become cirrus clouds, which we know can last for hours in the sky.

 

 

Not much altitude difference (or horizontal distance) is needed at times for very different contrail behavior, and you can be tricked by eye comparisons of distance in 3D. About being tricked: That video showed a chem/con trail and a "dark line." I don't know what they said since I don't have sound on my somputer (I JAM stereo), but the dark line is contrail shadow on a lower thin transparent cloud layer. I wish combat flight TheSims developers would start paying attention to this type of thing.

 

 

Those hour long contrails days are cited as causing global warming by the global warming types, so pick your conspiracy. If you actually started to watch the sky for days and years like I did growing up in Miss-iP where there is nothing else to do but get paddled in the rural schools, you see that hour long contrail days are about once or twice a month, which is not enough to cause global warming.

 

btw...that plane with oily looking trails is just water vapour, including the sheen coming from the wings, heavily enhanced to produce an oily look. That photo is popular on forums among not just fans of chemtrail poisoning, but also the Global Warming fans, and they DO NOT mix with the chemtrail poisoning fans.

 

 

All that said, I love browsing chemtrail websites because they can be a great source of some of the most surreal persistent contrail photos.

lol Lex was the exact person i had in mind making this post :D i have been hearing for chemtrails for ages now and never bothered to ask for knowledgeable peoples input, as expected great input here.

I should add maybe that, especially with tele lens pictures, about the visual distance and size estimation, sizes and distances "compress" in an "axonometric" way reducing the traditional appearance of 3D perspective. In practical every day words, what been said above equals that the longer the distance the more close to eachother two separated objects appear and the visual impression of distances and sizes "flattens" . I am not sure, someone correct me, i think human eye has some minimal "zoom" capabilities maybe depending where the eye tries to focus, but for sure in pictures where the camera zooms (tele) to catch distant aircraft there are always the telephoto "flattening distortion" effects

Its summer here in Greece now although temps are mild and its rather rainy these days, i am noticing that contrails take hours to break up

I have tin foil underwear.....

:lol: :lol:

I hate math....

 

But if they're spraying rogain up there, I don't mind. Baldness runs in my family a bit. So I appreciate any assistance that can be offered to combat that trait.

spraying Rogain :lol: :lol: :laugh:

afterafterburner ? :P

just a few questions for the moment. Is it normal for contrails to take many hours to dissapear from the sky ? Is it within contrail behavior characteristics that between two planes appearing form the ground to be almost the same size (so, probably on approximately same height?) only one produces contrails?

is it possible to have custom cockpits now in FC2?