Developer Diary, Part 62

[=jg52=yobbo89]

I can't find the new download link in my profile,can someone help me please

 

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ok i found it, need to log onto the screen/website with the sale/product of the game and not the forums. http://il2sturmovik.com/

 

[FSM: This is handy info so I edited the post to highlight it]

Edited April 19, 2014 by FlatSpinMan

[oneeyeddog]

Yobbo89, you can download here. Make sure to copy and save your input files and delete the entire game before downloading.

 

(http://il2bos1.s3.am...m/IL2_setup.exe)

Edited April 19, 2014 by oneeyeddog

[pilotpierre]

This is my slowest download yet, over an hour now, fluctuating between 30 an 500 kb/sec, most of the time less than 100.

[cobbman11]

Has anyone tried using sweetfx with the in-game AA?

[Felix58]

My download has just cracked 2Gb!

The update indicates 1.68Gb.

Is there an issue with this?

[Bando]

Has anyone tried using sweetfx with the in-game AA?

With in game AA, SFX won't work.

Put in game AA at 0, SFX works again.

[PB0_Foxy]

With in game AA, SFX won't work.

Put in game AA at 0, SFX works again.

Damned !

I hope they will be able to fix that one day because flying without AA is 

[MasaIV]

Is anyone else having the "Show this next time?" box come up every time they turn the HUD off? (Despite having the box unchecked)

[Felix58]

Found the solution to my previous post here

http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/2094-installation-and-performance/

Edited April 19, 2014 by aus3620

[cobbman11]

That's too bad. Although I've been flying without Sweetfx lately in favor of AA and I have to say the smooth picture is worth losing the deeper colors.

[LukeFF]

There is a welder at work in the hangar!

 

Yeah, the first time I saw that in closed testing, I thought there was an issue with the game or my graphics card.   It really is a nice feature and helps bring the game to life.

Edited April 19, 2014 by LukeFF

[71st_AH_Hooves]

Damned !

I hope they will be able to fix that one day because flying without AA is 

If you use Nvidia, you can use its AA setting sot override the games lack of AA.  Though be advised, they said if you have graphic bugs you might wanna just use the in game settings.  Basically they can't help if its an Nvidia problem.  Makes sense i guess.

[LukeFF]

It just seems as though we're going backwards and have less things we're allowed to do as the community.  Just google "IL2 skins" and you will see how important skinning is to us.  Hundreds, if not thousands of skins made by players out there. 

 

But unfortunately, among all those skins, there are a lot that frankly look like crap. 

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Isn't that where the community voting/vetting process comes in? I also really dislike the no custom skins path we've taken. I think it's a big mistake and easily solved via ROF's existing system.

[GAVCA/Jambock__28]

Thanks for the informative post on the DM.  

I was curious about the DM versus previous titles, so to know that they were under-modeled is a revelation.

As you say, a 20mm round can do a lot of damage.

 

Everything depends on what is hit... A P-47 was very difficult to shoot,  as was experienced by Robert Johnson:

https://secure1.tagonline.com/~cradle/history/aircraft/p-47/5.html

 

To me the P-47 was not modeled tough enough in il2:1946...

 

 

Anyway, I liked this news:

 

13) How granular is the engine DM going to be? Can you hit individual cylinders and bits or is it just going to be old school "the engine is one bit hitbox" style?

It is very detailed and you'll be informed about every hit in the GUI when it's ready. But here's a note for the future: a 20mm round doesn't care how detailed the engine's DM is - it hits it and it turns it into a piece of junk

 

[IVJG4-Knight]

IL2 1946 damage modeling : I hit a spit  3 times with 30 mm kannon.One in each wing and one in the fuselage and it still returned to base.

[RDW]

How big is the entire update now? I am downloading and it reads 1.95GB/1.76GB. 

[Feathered_IV]

Downloading for almost five hours now. 25% and counting. Is there a premium version of premium membership I can pay for?

[RDW]

Still confused about how big the file is... wish it would download faster. Sorry Feathered about your Internet speed. Its a pain I bet. 

Edited April 19, 2014 by RDW

[Dave]

Downloading for almost five hours now. 25% and counting. Is there a premium version of premium membership I can pay for?

LOL.

Welcome to Oz.

I cheered when the initial installer download finished after over an hour (on my 16Mb connection). Only then did I remember I now need to wait for another 1.7GB to cross the pond by carrier pidgeon.

 

Well I'm catching up on my YouTube warbirds action I suppose.

[FlatSpinMan]

God bless the far-flung, for verily they (we) doth suffer greatly, come the time for the downloading of the updates.

 

Even with a high-speed cable connection in a large urban area, it's still taken me nearly an hour to download the 339MB set up program.

Oh well, the Crusaders play the Chiefs in under an hour, so that'll fill in the time nicely.

[taleks]

Update size is about 1,7 Gb.

 

In some cases, in web-distribution mode, if launcher decides to discard a downloaded part of some file, first number may become bigger than second, cause it shows actual downloaded size, not expected.

 

If you've got a bigger first number in progress bar (e.g., more than 100-200Mb), then start a new thread in support forum, attach data/update.log (compress it to zip before attaching to forum). Probably, there is problem with some file downloading and/or resuming.

[pilotpierre]

That's too bad. Although I've been flying without Sweetfx lately in favor of AA and I have to say the smooth picture is worth losing the deeper colors.

Have to agree.

[Nage]

But unfortunately, among all those skins, there are a lot that frankly look like crap.

 

Im sorry, this is not an argument which holds water.

[Feathered_IV]

Ho Hum. Mrs F_IV helpfully shut the computer down, as it appeared I wasn't using it. As there is no ability to resume the download I must now start all over again.

[taleks]

Ho Hum. Mrs F_IV helpfully shut the computer down, as it appeared I wasn't using it. As there is no ability to resume the download I must now start all over again.

Launcher supports resuming.

[Feathered_IV]

Thanks for that.  Just to test, I switched it off.  It most certainly does not resume.  I shall try one last time...

[taleks]

Thanks for that.  Just to test, I switched it off.  It most certainly does not resume.  I shall try one last time...

It may show the same size still, but if you look to update.log, it will have line like "Resuming downloading of ..." for web-distribution (for p2p resuming works in another way, but it still works).

When calculating update size, only fully completed files are excluded from total sum of all files sizes.

If you believe still that something is wrong, then the only way to check it is to show me update.log in technical support sub-forum.

[ram0506]

That's too bad. Although I've been flying without Sweetfx lately in favor of AA and I have to say the smooth picture is worth losing the deeper colors.

You can use the AA of SweetFX (FlightFX), too. In the SweetFX settings you just have to switch SMAA_CORNER_ROUNDING to 30 or 40. Works great, but don`t forget to set the ingame AA to 0x, otherwise SweetFX won`t run.

[I/JG27_Zimmi]

Reinstalled IL2 BoS 3 times today. Also tried the launcher 30b. No success:

 

BOS update library 30b (build date: Apr 17 2014, libcurl/7.15.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3, open-vcdiff/BOS-mod+)
p2p: libtorrent 0.16.12.0
Windows locale code page is: 850
Loading game config.
Failed to load game config.
Trying master server il2bosrd1.s3.amazonaws.com
Failed to download file latest.info (-1: couldn't connect to host)
Failed to send version request to master server (-1)
Latest version: unknown
Failed to load current snapshot. Seems, need to update.

--- starting update ---
working at: \\?\E:\Spiele\IL2_BoS
Failed to load current snapshot
WARNING: forced recovery mode for updating (takes more time)
Recovery mode enabled
Connecting to BOS test server 1 (il2bosrd1.s3.amazonaws.com, port 80)
Loading local copy of install-actions
md5 for snapshot is wrong.
Downloading remote copy of snapshot.
Failed to download file (-1: couldn't connect to host)
  file id: unknown.snap
Failed to get snapshot for version unknown
Closing cURL client.
Downloaded 0 kBytes.
Killing update threads...
Killing caching thread...
SafeKillTorrentClient
leaving il2_KillUpdateThreads()
Copying update.log to last_update.log
 

[taleks]

Reinstalled IL2 BoS 3 times today. Also tried the launcher 30b. No success:

...

Failed to download file (-1: couldn't connect to host)

...

Check your firewall/antivirus settings. Something blocks launcher's network activity.

 

PS:

it is better to report such errors in related technical support sub forum.

[Zak]

Pardon me Zak, but you said it will be like RoF.  Thats how RoF is yes? Approved Skins available for Download?  You can't change the individual letters, you have to change the whole skin.  What am I missing?  No one told me anything.  Im going off what YOU said.

No, I haven't said that there will be skins approved for download and that it will be like in ROF.

 

You said it in the update today the answer to question 8.

"Its like RoF" is your answer.

Yes, this is where I put the "Like in ROF" stuff as I was replying a question if the personal markings will be decals or entire skins.

 

Long story short: skins distribution system which you might be familiar with since ROF will not be functioning in BOS. That will be different, we haven't ever said what it will be like, but it's not going to be exacly like in ROF.

[senseispcc]

The Yak-1 and Lagg-3 landing characteristics seems to me corrected, less bouncy, more realistic!

The clouds are changed once again I like every change because every one is realistic in is way.

The flight record is less prone  to crash the game when after a mission  I tried to change the name of the record.

There is one original mission for the IL2m in the mission menu, I shall try it in a near future, thanks and hope for more.

All in all a nice update in a great game, thanks a lot!     

[MD_Avingalarf]

On my third download since last night, i am NOT having a laugh--notavingalarf--

[kendo]

The new clouds are excellent. Really quality.

 

(Though the AA obviously still needs a little fine tweaking with them. Getting the same aliasing effect that afflicted the black smoke initially.)

 

And like others here I'm still opting for in-game AA over SweetFX. Hopefully all will be made compatible again in the end. 

[SYN_Jedders]

No, I haven't said that there will be skins approved for download and that it will be like in ROF.

 

Yes, this is where I put the "Like in ROF" stuff as I was replying a question if the personal markings will be decals or entire skins.

 

Long story short: skins distribution system which you might be familiar with since ROF will not be functioning in BOS. That will be different, we haven't ever said what it will be like, but it's not going to be exacly like in ROF.

 

Thanks for clearing that up, Zak.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 Goodies Installing my gaming hardware today so can do some testing. I am glad to read about the questions and answers, especially AMD related. Thanks for that and will run tests on my AMD GPU HAve a good weekend all.

[sturmkraehe]

The issue with the skins is also itching me. I understand that with the technique employed by BoS allowing personal skins in mp is an open invitation to cheating as it allows to make a plane invisible.

 

Is it not possible to impose a non transparent alpha layer by the server meaning: Could it be checked by the server if an alpha layer leads to transparent planes and block such skins? Could it be an option to revert to skins similar to IL2 1946 for online playing?

 

I really think this very restrictive regulation on skins albeit absolutely understandable is a big drawback for the game. Skins are a vital part for any online and offline flying squadron.

 

As is being able to put individual letters on individual planes. 

[334th_L0C0]

No, I haven't said that there will be skins approved for download and that it will be like in ROF.

 

Can you allow user skins for privately hosted matches on private servers? No skins for Campaign or Multi-player is a killer for me. It's why we have squads. We want to look our part. 

 

Looks like we now have our answer Spektre.. We're F'ed.

 

Very disappointed.

Edited April 19, 2014 by 9./JG54_EZ

[steppenwolf]

For me, the DM being 90% done was unexpected. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it because it seems less sophisticated than the ROF DM.