Author Topic: Another observation about damage effects.. (Read 288 times)

WhiteHawk · « **on:** January 10, 2004, 08:37:04 PM »

When a plane gets a piece tore off, it should whiz by at the speed at which the plane is traveling. Not just fall off like a leaf to the ground. Il-2 is awsome graphics and damage effects, but they do this to. Once the affected part is damaged emuff the wind should batter it and/or rip it off and zing it back at the speed at which the plane is traveling due to the wind.

mos · « **Reply #1 on:** January 10, 2004, 09:13:25 PM »

I'm not sure what you mean, are you saying pieces of a wing should fly back in the opposite direction of the plane, at the same speed as the plane is moving?

Octavius · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2004, 01:17:31 AM »

I think he means the pieces should have some inertia to them so the parts don't drop straight down without any horizontal velocity.

Cobra412 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 11, 2004, 04:14:45 AM »

Wouldn't thing pieces actually flop end over end in some erratic fashion due to the shape? Think of the pieces of card board you see here and there on the highways. They don't just fly forward when a gust of wind hits them. Typically they flop over and slash in the wind as they come back to rest on the ground. Thats just my theory due to the shape of the pieces coming off the plane.

Kweassa · « **Reply #4 on:** January 11, 2004, 05:55:47 AM »

I'm just curious just how long the inertia will remain.

I've watched two space shuttles blow up(RIP to the crew), and I must say the pieces, despite the explosion, seem to quickly lose any sort of outgoing velocity and very quickly start a free-fall towards the earth.

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #5 on:** January 11, 2004, 05:59:11 AM »

If you are in a plane traveling at 300mph. When a piece of that plane is seperated from the engine, it is going to decelarate very rapidly. If i am shooting pieces off of that plane, the peices should APPEAR to shoot past me at the difference in the speed of the piece and my plane. In reality, the peices are decelarating, due to to the fact that they are no longer being propelled forward and the drag those, usually, non-aerodynamic peices have.
What i see now is, I shoot off an aielron and it simply drops off like a leaf from a tree and floats gently to earth, which it would, but only after it has a violent 4 or 5 seconds to deccelerate.
I was intoxicated when I started this thread, if that explains anything.