This short machinima piece shows how the latest mod Ultrapack version 1.7 has breathed new life yet again into an 8 year old combat flight simulator, IL2 Sturmovik, making it a viable engine for making films.
This is a demo of a track, recorded first with the mods, then for comparison, without.
No post processing was carried out. What you see and hear, is what you get in game.
Youtube dropped another bomb on me. They must be getting good at dropping bombs with pinpoint accuracy, ahem.
Yes, I know, I used copyrighted music for an old training video I made on how to use the Norden bombsight in IL2. It was way before there was any real concern that Youtube would eventually have a strop with Warners Music Group and decide to pull all their content off the site.
My Bad.
Also very irked as it had been one of my more popular videos, and was still getting hits and comments even though the tutorial was over 2 years old. I still get messages asking for more information on how to drop bombs (sorry all if I don't reply to them all, it's just lack of time, but thanks for the interest. Best place to get help is in the forums then everyone can share and learn).
Well, I guess I should put it up again without WMG music. It means losing some of the sound effects, but hopefully this will still be useful to enthusiastic bombardiers. And hey, at least it means I can do it in HD this time. Back in the old days there was no such thing :)
I would celebrate as it does feel like an important number of subscribers, but then again my kid got the same number a whole lot quicker making domino videos, and now has 230. Me jealous of my kid? Hah, course not. The little brat, more popular than his old man http://www.youtube.com/user/camjam2k7 but I'll forgive him as he made me a cute little logo from dominoes :p
Thanks to all who have subscribed - it's actually very encouraging to know that you want to see more.
For those who subscribed to see more flight sim movies and have been asking for more, well, maybe one day I'll come back to that genre when there is a good way to get better human animations into the game. For sure there are still many great stories to tell.
Very pleased to not only get a runner up award for best film at this year’s Online Machinima Film Festival, but chuffed to see other Flight Sim movies get a mention.
My own Shoulder to Shoulder was third for best film, using IL2, Sims 2 and my first tinkering with CGI.
Wolf’s Desert Dogfighter was third for best drama, and this is one of the best dramatic stories told using a flight sim engine, integrated with ArmA and a few others.
TLR was third for best first film. Tinus is now developing great integration films; see more of his work at Youtube
Also, pleased to see Pooky getting third place in the series category with the brilliant 2nd QuestioN! live machinima show.
Congrats to all the winners, and a big thanks to Michelle for organising this. Shame there won't be an event for us all to get together again in Second Life.
This short machinima piece shows how the latest mod Ultrapack version 1.7 has breathed new life yet again into an 8 year old combat flight simulator, IL2 Sturmovik, making it a viable engine for making films.
