On a recent visit to the neoqb offices in Moscow, flight sim fans in Russia got some real hands-on experience with the alpha build of Rise Of Flight. The following screenshots were taken from flight sim enthusiast -=RFF=-AvvA's trip this past month, and give us a look at some of the work that's been created for the sim.

Rise Of Flight loads



Campaigning intro footage



The workings of the Mission Editor



Mission Accomplished and controllable pilot animation

Very nice artwork! I'm liking what has been shown thus far. The mission editor looks fresh too!

Awesome!

Nice to see that there will be cut scenes to enhance the transition between missions.

The Mission Editor looks very interesting. A far cry from the top-down map dragging of other sims.

Good find Dave and thanks to our Russian sim fans for uploading them.

It looks like FIFA is the office lan favorite.

S!

Auch, I just don't see the point of artificially created human beings... Why go to all the trouble of that when actors can do a much better job.

See the "uncanny valley":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley

Perhaps it would be difficult to get the actors to crawl into, fly, and crawl out of the sim's little 3D aircraft, or maybe they just couldn't find an actor with Eddie Rickenbacker's nose.

Hey wake that guy up.....ROF Team at neoqb

Note to bald guy on the right: When pretending to be working, turning the monitor on really helps sell the illusion.

Some tastie views of ROF's models.

(not those kind of models)

Plastic models, built by the ROF team reflecting many of the fighter types included in the game.

Note the calendar porn on the center pillar of the room ROFLMAO

Yep. I bet is legal to smoke indoors there, too.

Sigh.

Well at least the plastic model pics didn't need editing.

Thanks for the pics Dave. Just made the update on my site. But I was too lazy to blur the nude on the wall - now I feel bad, lol.

LOL Dave, or should we call you General Smutt!

(that's your site, so she's your baby)

Nice, but the pilots should look not too much "cinematographic". (1)

Have a look here on this Ebay album, with a excellent and inedite picture of Bölke.

http://cgi.ebay.de/Foto-Album-1-WK-Flieg...1QQcmdZViewItem




(1) in my opinion, the "Flyboys" (what an horrible movie) look and ambiance should be avoided at any costs!

Boelcke died in a flying accident, colliding with a comrade's plane in his flight if it's the same Boelcke. I only found this out today which is why I mention it, shocked

I liked Flyboys, it's not as if we have WW1 movies coming out of our ears

Ming

Wauw, amazing pics at that link!

http://cgi.ebay.de/Foto-Album-1-WK-Flieg...bayphotohosting

Software developers "not" working in cube-land??? What a concept.

IIRC, Boelke was one of Richtofen's first kills.


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I rewatched Flyboys this last week and put some of the grognard biases aside.

It's not really a bad film. Even the "love interest" has a purpose of showing that there was more to WWI than Ami's flying against the Hun in some sort of vaccuum. The French were actually people, it would seem, and worth fighting for.

Indeed, the romance part was very well handled. I was expecting five minutes of slow motion too-close-up cinematic soft porn (see Top Gun), but in fact he doesn't get to score (AFAIK).

Um, I think not Dart.

Boelcke was Richthofen's mentor and wrote the rules of engagement that he based his own tactics upon. They never flew as opponents, being both on the same side.

I think you are thinking of Hawker.

S!

Actually, I was making light of the fact that Richtofen was close by when Boelke collided with his wingman. It's often misquoted as having Richtofen hitting Boelke, when it wasn't the case.

Four planes were occupying a combat square of fifty feet to a side when when collision happened.

At any rate, it was Hun on Hun crunching that did the man in.

Manfred broke formation to chase an enemy, one plane swerved to avoid a crash and there was another
crash instead. Manfred carried guilt over that, he did blame his own action as the cause.