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Offline Shiva

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Disturbing visuals
« on: April 05, 2004, 07:58:51 PM »
It's not really a bug per se, but I think it's going to take me a while to get over my startlement at diving in on another aircraft, only to see a grey smoke trail whip across the screen in front of me to end in a cloud of black smoke.

Yes, I got distracted by the visibility-check code for ground objects drawing a road along the ground in front of me, then drawing a clump of trees. But it was so perfectly lined up; the 'front' of the road drew across my line of sight at what I would have estimated to be about Mach 2, then it stopped right where the tree canopy bulked up out of nowhere. A serious double-take moment; I wish I'd filmed it. I was so amazed at what I thought I'd seen that I completely blew my pass on the drone, with the thought "Important safety tip: Field ack seriously upgraded in AH2." running through my head before I realized what I was seeing.

And yes, it's funny as hell in retrospect, but it was one of those "What the hell?" moments at the time.