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There are a lot of plans for Sinai, I'm certainly glad that it is already in EA, but there are still phases of the project that are in the works and will be done in the future. The new map is cool, but still we need to complete what we have planned! I am very glad that Sinai came out in the form in which it is, because it is very important for me to collect user reviews. It was also important to work with the ED team. These guys are professionals! I really love the map of the Persian Gulf, 2 countries separated by a strait it makes some sense to have a red and a blue side. In the future, having dynamic companies will be very popular. And I choose a new map, I proceeded from this principle, but this is my opinion

liked this review. The music is well chosen. I want to share with you. Thank you BOGEY DOPE!

Thanks, added to the bug list. Priority - high

Thanks, added to the bug list. Priority - medium

Thanks, added to the bug list. Priority - medium

Thanks, added to the bug list. Priority - high

we didn't plan to do it

I agree, but this is the first release of the map, EA. We will work on improving naturally, as well as other modules, it will be updated and improved. And these are good reviews for us in the future, that we should not forget about helicopter pilots.

hm...will check, thank you.

thanks, good point, i will discuss this with our artist at the meeting on monday

ED profi guys, I think that we have somehow implemented the technology and this will push them to do it in the future. I hope that they are already working in this direction. At least I will discuss it with them in the future. A regular mesh has a LODS system, while a static mesh has no LODS.

Sorry for delay answer @Japo32 Yes, as you noticed on the map there is a normal map - which is great for high altitude. The main problem was and remains to generate a more accurate mesh. But we can generate it with the improved heightmap that we managed to get. Now a mesh has been generated from the improved heightmap, but with a rather large edge and it is equally dense throughout the map, but already with it we got unevenness on the dunes, although with the standard heightmap we had just a plane. As I wrote earlier, this technology is used to work out some places at the moment and these places will be supplemented. These are static mesh that replace the main mesh, as seen in the screenshots you showed. Why can't we do this for the whole terrain? Because static meshes don't have a lod system like a standard terrain mesh does. That is, when I make a mountain section of an improved network and get 1M triangles - this 1M will be visible even in Cairo - although it is in Jordan. I'll show you a screenshot in which the improved mesh is built, it's a square of about 30 by 30 km and there are more triangles in it than in the entire territory of the entire map. And without lods, we get 1fps, because 100M triangles always fall into the frame. But there is a way out, it is necessary to modify the TDK a little so that these static pieces fall into the general mesh of the terrain. But the technology works and there are places in the shinai where this improved mesh is available. I will also add it to the place where Petra is located in Jordan and a couple more places in the future. I hope I explained it clearly, if you have any questions feel free to ask. Screenshots attached.

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Mosque of Muhammad Ali, Cairo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque_of_Muhammad_Ali

will do, thanks

I think this is due to cascading shadows, try without them

Please post photos of course. I already wrote that there is such an opportunity in the DCS, but I have not studied it yet. I think they are testing it in the Mariana Islands when you change the time and the map changes

I wanted to see the settings, but it seems to have stopped working in DCS, not open beta) I'll ask the testers, lol

this is a problem in general for all games, so everyone tries to make sure that the sun is not at mid day sun. Because there is a Lahaina Noon effect It is very difficult to make a beautiful picture when there are no shadows and volumetric lighting. I have attached a photo from real life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahaina_Noon

Thanks. Try to turn on the dust smoke, I like to fly with it, but only at low altitudes. At high altitudes, it does not seem very real to me, but I could be wrong.

Thanks for the pictures, we are now collecting information from those times which is not as much as we would like

thanks, added to the list for improvement

Good review, thanks. Feedback like this helps us make it better. I am preparing a roadmap, collecting all the information. I thought we would have only 3 phases in the project that we talked about initially, but I understand that 4 and 5 more are needed

You are right Massada will appear. Now I would single out 3 more monuments: Unknown Soldier Memorial Battle of Ismailia Memorial The Lighthouse of Port Said They are already included in the map and you can fly and see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Soldier_Memorial_(Egypt) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Said_Lighthouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ismailia#:~:text=The Battle of Ismailia Monument,allied with Egypt against Israel.