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Update 19 June 2011

Greetings dear IL-2 fans. Another small text & pics only update today...

Control surface & pilot's head positions transfered over network

This feature was briefly demonstrated in the spawning video. So basically this means that online players will see other player's control surface movements and pilot's head position (where the pilot is looking) since this information is propagated over the network.


Mouse wheel zooming

This was also hidden in the spawning video and there is even more hidden features in that clip Simply put, this is normal mouse wheel zooming which works in FMB, mission briefing screen and in minimap. The view is zoomed centered on current mouse position; i.e. you place a mouse cursor where you want to zoom in and scroll the wheel.


Default skin changes

In 4.11 we added a small internal feature which allows us to determine in the code more freely which default skin should be used. Previously most planes simply had summer & winter skins and few planes had unique default skin for pacific maps. In 4.11 we have possibility to load certain default skin based on mission date, aircraft regiment, etc. basically any information available. For example a Bf-110 which belongs to night fighter regiment could have a black NF default skins while other regiments have a normal day fighter skin.

Previously we were reluctant to add new country specific default skins because this would have mean that the aircraft 3D meshes, material & damage textures would need to be duplicated. Now we can add new country specific default skins more freely without adding unnecessary content to increase patch size. Here is one example from 4.11:




Other example for allied skins would be invasion stripes. Here is a pic of few allied stationary planes when mission date is pre-D-day:




Same mission, but now with date that is after D-day:




Another example of few pre-war skins:




And same situation with later mission date:




Yellow eastern front markings are another good example. Here we can see few Finnish planes during Winter War period. Notice that there is no yellow eastern front markings visible.




When we se a mission date which indicates a start of Continuation War, we get following default skins. Notice that this is historically correct situation for early Continuation War. Yellow eastern front markings have been introduced, but not applied to engine cowlings yet. In few cases the markings have been applied over old Winter War paints.




And if we push the mission date even further, we get again correct default skins. Now the eastern front markings have been applied to engines and planes have received "war paints" instead of original French/ German/Italian colors.




Skins shown here might not be the final ones.

Thanks to all the artists.
Cpt_Farrel
Emel
Hurri-Khan
Macwan

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=20318

Is 4.11 to replace 4.101/5.1? Thanks TC