DCS World 2.0 and New Maps Discussion Thread

[Nate--IRL--]

 

http://light.polar.cz/videa/htpostrava.cz/videa/publikovano/03_darkness_landing_simulator_mi_171_www.mp4

 

 

http://precise3dmodeling.com/video/images/mi-17v5_demo.avi

 

Looks familiar ? (model parts and texture) ^

 

Doesn't feel like EDs work to me (I'd love to be wrong) It is very similar, being a Russian type airport, but it doesn't have the same feel.

 

Nate

[ALDEGA]

It's not ED's work, check the video on this site: http://www.htpostrava.cz/

At 2:48 you can see a map which looks like the Georgian coast though ...

 

[JaNk0]

It may not be ED, but check out this scenery!

 

 

[Blaze]

Woah, never seen the sky those colors before. :huh:

 

It's like a mix between DCS runways water and ground mesh, Outerra trees, and X-Plane ground textures. Yuck! :D

 

Edited April 7, 2012 by Blaze

[Moa]

The sky colors are likely to be correct accounting for Rayleigh and Mie scattering, rather than the artistic guesses we're used to in existing products.

 

See "Accurate Atmospheric Scattering" on a good approximate that can be done with current GPU shaders:

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter16.html

[HiJack]

Woah, never seen the sky those colors before. :huh:

 

It's like a mix between DCS runways water and ground mesh, Outerra trees, and X-Plane ground textures. Yuck! :D

 

Definitely know this place :D

[Daze]

Potentially stupid question, but here goes: Is Groom Lake/Papoose Lake/Area 51 etc in the DCS Nevada map?

[ALDEGA]

Definitely know this place :D

Please enlighten me.

[HiJack]

Please enlighten me.

 

It's Gudauta airport.

 

(HJ)

[ALDEGA]

That's what I figured, but the real one looks a lot different.

[HiJack]

That's what I figured, but the real one looks a lot different.

Any picture of the real one?

[ALDEGA]

Google maps :)

 

While you're there, look up the other airports which are modeled in DCS.

You'll find many of them are in a bad state, some pretty much gone/abandoned.

You can also see traces of the bombings of Senaki and Kopitnari (named Kutaisi in DCS) in the 2008 Georgian war.

Lastly, you'll see that two airports (at Poti and Marneuli) are not present in DCS.

[HiJack]

Well, from google maps I would say FC2 and DCS version of the airport is the more correct one.

 

And I guess Russia has the same problem regarding what airport to keep operating as all other countries.

 

(HJ)

[Newt]

Is anyone else a little sad that the ED newsletter did not include anything about the Nevada map? I understand if there isn't much of a release date or something, but couldn't they just throw out some additional pictures now and then?

 

I guess it will get here when it gets here. But it sure is taking a long time. I hope it really has changed (for the better) since beta, considering it's been over a year since we flew it there, no? Mostly, it kind of makes me worry about the state of their company. Perhaps they are working on too many different things at once and are stretched too thin?

[EtherealN]

I hope it really has changed (for the better) since beta

 

An entriely new terrain engine would qualify as "has really changed", I think, yeah. :)

[159th_Viper]

I hope it really has changed (for the better) since beta, considering it's been over a year since we flew it there, no?

 

You have never flown the Nevada terrain in development - it's an entirely new terrain engine being developed by a seperate development team.

 

Eeww.....that's the second time I've been norrised by the E :P

[Newt]

Well, that is good. And I really didn't mean for it to sound like a complaint, just expressing "sadness" lol.

 

I know that it must be annoying to always answer questions about it. But it has just started to feel like all those games and movies that end up in dev hell and as I mentioned, it makes me feel sort of bummed. lol

[159th_Viper]

There should be another Nevada update in May. No promises though :)

[Newt]

There should be another Nevada update in May. No promises though :)

Is that what they said before? For some reason I had remembered April. That could just be a mistake on my part.

Ah, yes, I just found the post. My mistake.

Edited April 9, 2012 by Newt

[ALDEGA]

You have never flown the Nevada terrain in development - it's an entirely new terrain engine being developed by a seperate development team.

I wonder how it will compare to an engine such as Outerra ...

[HiJack]

An entriely new terrain engine would qualify as "has really changed", I think, yeah. :)

I haven’t read the whole thread but does introduction of a new terrain engine (EDGE) require a redo of the Caucasus map?

 

(HJ)

[sobek]

I haven’t read the whole thread but does introduction of a new terrain engine (EDGE) require a redo of the Caucasus map?

 

(HJ)

 

IIRC ED stated in the past that they would cease working on the caucasus map. The map would however have to be redone to be able to use the new technology.

[Blaze]

Correct, the Caucasus map will not be re-made to utilize EDGE technology.

[Phantom88]

Really looking forward to Nevada,I enjoyed flying in it in beta,even though it was less than perfect,It was refreashing to fly in a totally different enviornment.

[HiJack]

Really looking forward to Nevada,I enjoyed flying in it in beta,even though it was less than perfect,It was refreashing to fly in a totally different enviornment.

I still fly in it :D