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RedRum's 20,000 Leagues Above the Sea

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PA_WILLY's Thunder protecting the Fleet.

5 (17.9%)

Rock's Sabre vs Mustang

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PA_HEctor's lightning quick

0 (0%)

PA_Jeranimo's Carrier landing

5 (17.9%)

Verh

1 (3.6%)

Kazegami's Blast

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Aussie Pilot's SOUND BARRIER

0 (0%)

Killer Ghost's FOX2

0 (0%)

Monty27's ground strike

5 (17.9%)

santobr's SHort approach

1 (3.6%)

Avala's Shine

1 (3.6%)

Phas3e's King of the Mountain

10 (35.7%)

Total Members Voted: 28

Voting closed: July 26, 2011, 03:39:19 PM

[Kazegami]

I've caught one with the vapor cone, Photoshopped the HUD and Speed bar out, added motion blur, some lighting effects, ect...
Does that say 640 mph?

[Aussie Pilot]

I've caught one with the vapor cone, Photoshopped the HUD and Speed bar out, added motion blur, some lighting effects, ect...
Does that say 640 mph?

Yep, 640 mph, i actually pulled out at sea level doing 720 mph, i didn't think it would hold together. I'd been fighting some Mig 15's and Mig 17"s when i saw them breaking the sound barrier showing the vapour cloud. So on my way back to the carrier i thought i'd give it a go, so i went to outside view at 600mph at waited for it to happen, snapping a print screen at the right moment. Pretty cool aye.

For what it's worth this was done during online flight in a dogfight/coop mission. The server was stable as.

[Killer Ghost]

 Fox 2

[SAS~Monty27]

No editing.  This F-86A is lit up by his own ground strike, the pilot glancing over at the burning trucks, out of shot.  Dark Blue World...

[Kazegami]

 
I swear that looks edited!

[SAS~Monty27]

Wrong! Its just a screengrab.  There is a world of difference between preparing for a screenshot before you take it and post-production once you have it.

Anyone who thinks you need a lot of post-production editing on Il2 Screenshots is seriously under-estimating how good this sim can look on the fly.  I think it is still the best out there.  With a decent graphics card and the range of new particle effects there is little to touch it.

If you pause the sim, have several cameras on site and move around your mouse in freelook, you can get a great shot.  Sure, its prepared and planned, the point is its still a screengrab and does not go through a post-production process to alter the colour, shading, or add light-bloom, blur effects, chrono-resampling etc.  The fact that a shot is balanced and framed nicely is just good camerawork! 

Preparation - Not Post-Production.

Why does it even matter?  Because a basically un-edited shot shows us our lovely Il2 in all its glory, and it can be spectacular.  I am not interested in something that has been photo-shopped to oblivion and no longer represents what we started with.  To me minimal editing would be OK to remove the speedbar, although it is quite easy to fly without it in the first place, and likewise do away with the HUD messages if you have them, no big deal.

Last time out we even had a discussion over whether the sim had to be Il2!!!!!!!!!!!!!WTF?  Why not just grab some stuff off Airliners.net and be done with it?

[Verhängnis]

Well said Monty!

[Screwball]

Monty, that's an absolutely cracking shot mate - maybe worth posting up on the DBW image thread? It'd be a great ad for the pack 

Screwy

[SAS~Monty27]

Wilco Screwy!

[santobr]

santobr.

[SAS~Monty27]

Beautiful shot santobr, illustrating my previous point perfectly!

[santobr]

Thanks.

But yours is a State of the Art!


santobr.