The developers of Korea: IL-2 Series shared how they’re reproduing the gun sights in the simulator to make sure they feel authentic.
According to the official post, they studied a woerking MiG-15 ASP-3 sight that still had the original bulb, which means they could study the reticle’s color, brightness, texture, and the details of its fine features.
On top of this study, they added brightness controls to the reticles. The Soviet PBP and K8T sights also have the natural reticle illumination mode where the backlight lamp is removed and the reticle’s visibility comes from sunlight.
You can also lock the gyroscopic mechanisms of the sights and the animations of the reticle are much more precise than in previous sims from the studio.
The glass itself has been reproduced so that it doesn’t look like plastic or feels too uniformly transparent.
Here are the gun sight models that you’ll find reproduced in the simulator.
- K-14B – installed in the F-51D as the standard variant
- K-14C – installed in the F-80C-10 as the standard variant and the F-51 as a modification
- Mk.18 – installed in the F-86A as the standard variant
- A-1CM – installed in the F-84E and F-86A as a modification
- PBP-1a – installed in the Yak-9P as the standard variant
- PBP-1b – installed in the pilot’s cockpit of the Il-10
- K8T – installed in the gunner’s cockpit of the Il-10
- PKI – installed in the Yak-9P as a modification
- ASP-1 – installed in the La-11 as the standard variant
- ASP-3n – installed in the MiG-15 as the standard variant and in the La-11 as a modification
Below you can find a few screenshots.
If you want to hear and see more of Korea: IL-2 Series, you can check out our preview with the latest gameplay.
We also have the first gameplay reveal, a look at the gun effects, some interesting animations for the artillery units that will be implemented in the game, the model for the Lavochkin La-11 piston fighter and its cockpit, and a look at the ground vehicles and their destruction.
We also have a video focusing on engine sounds and a rather spectacular look at the visual damage modeling, one on the cities, one on the control options, one on nature, and one on seasons.
If you’re unfamiliar with the IL-2 series, it’s a combat flight simulation series that debuted all the way back in 2001 with IL-2 Sturmovik, set on the Eastern Front of World War II.
At that time, it was very innovative among combat flight simulators and provided a lot of interesting features in a genre that was already starting to drop out of the AAA field into a much smaller niche. It also included a rather advanced multiplayer suite for the time.
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