Author Topic: WB III screenshots are here. HT, Pyro, Nate, Fly ? Comments ? (Read 1949 times)

fd ski · « **on:** March 23, 2000, 10:49:00 AM »

get them while they're hot at ftp://lists.imagiconline.com/pub/WarBirds/art/shot1.zip

Warning - this is a link to a zipped file.
4 full sized shots of zeke..

So HTC - what do you guys think ?

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Pongo · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2000, 11:02:00 AM »

Those arnt screen shots..those are 3d models.. screen shots are generated from in a game not a 3d tool.

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funked · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2000, 11:02:00 AM »

Those are cute.

Azrael · « **Reply #3 on:** March 23, 2000, 11:13:00 AM »

This is a nice model (note the pushed back canopy in shot #3), and according to Hotseat the shots are from the game engine.

Time will tell how the competition is going along

Az

miko2d · « **Reply #4 on:** March 23, 2000, 11:25:00 AM »

How do I view the .TGA files?

Westy · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2000, 11:29:00 AM »

They look fine. Nothing ground breaking and they look up to par with what is currently available. It would bring WB's in line with the competition - graphics wise. I've also heard that iEN does not intend to anything different with the sim in regard to current gameplay like adding strat. That was my take from what HS wrote. IMO it really puts another nail in the coffin for AW and even FA II.
If I were HTC or CRS I'd not be worried as it's not the apprant leap ahead some folks seem to have been thinking it would be.
Had the MSCFS II screen shots been WB's III instead then I would have been very impressed. I guess it would depend on what the rest of the sim is going to be like to make any judgement or guess on whether it will be breaking any new ground or just playing a game of leap frog with graphics, damage and gunnery models.

-Westy

Ripsnort · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2000, 11:41:00 AM »

Competition is good for end users

Brazos · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2000, 12:03:00 PM »

Still no real screenshots of WB3?

Heheheh, why am I not surprised? It is now time to realize that WB3 is a urban myth.

Dinger · « **Reply #8 on:** March 23, 2000, 12:21:00 PM »

fd-ski, with all due respect:
please do not bait HTC with that kinda stuff. There's no way they can respond professionally to it.
Besides, we want to see v. 1.02 some time soon, and if they catch wind of where iEN is in the development cycle, they may decide to go on vacation for six weeks. Show 'em the pearl harbor shot Verm posted. Let 'em think that is the competition. Not some non-functioning rush job straight out of the polygon-reducing machine.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2000, 12:44:00 PM »

All you have to do is look at the files at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/9193/Gallery/ and it clearly shows that the "screenshot" was drawn with a 3D drawing program. No game engine is involved at all.

I personally like the one where the smoke appears as large round spheres.

Mickey

Samart · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2000, 01:13:00 PM »

I've been away from this board a while so I thought that I would see what's up.......

Concerning the screen shots......Look at shot #2 or #4 I think it is......and you will see the blue sky from the fog. It's all there.

Online siming is going to be getting great!!!!

Samart

Vermillion · « **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2000, 01:37:00 PM »

Mickey, the ones I posted earlier were a joke

an obvious troll. Especially, If you looked at the bottom of the post where I inserted "whiizzzz.... plop", which is about the closest you can come to the sound of a fishing line being thrown into the water.

The pics that funked posted are real ones just released (coincidentally) today by iEN.

To me, the "screenshots" from iEN, look way too much like a 3D model from a drawing program, not an "in game" shot.

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jmccaul · « **Reply #12 on:** March 23, 2000, 01:37:00 PM »

I don't know if they are from the game enviroment but it's very hard to make a judgement against that grey backgorung with no terrain etc.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #13 on:** March 23, 2000, 01:49:00 PM »

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Originally posted by jmccaul:
I don't know if they are from the game enviroment but it's very hard to make a judgement against that grey backgorung with no terrain etc.

That is also a clue to how far along they are to release...not very IMO.

But, I do hope it is soon, competition makes better software for all end users.

jmccaul · « **Reply #14 on:** March 23, 2000, 02:59:00 PM »

If your into eye candy, check these :-

Not in any sort of competion with AH though but they do look pretty.
http://www.bombs-away.net/screenshots/index.htm

or

http://www.bombs-away.net/downloads/movies/movies.htm