Oil on windscreen

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Kweassa
Try looking at your wings MugZ. More often then not, when you have radiator damage you'll notice that there's a bullet hole at the wing root area. The DM, so far for me, seems very precise - the holes appear where they are hit, and the area it is hit is damaged.

Perhaps but I still find it VERY hard to beleive that EVERY time your oil gets hit you should get oil on the windscreen.

It seems as though levels of damage are modeled that is sometimes oil is leaking faster after being hit on some occasions then on others as there are times when it takes much longer for the engine to conk out then other times. Im thinking perhaps it would be better, and more realistic if the oil on windscreen effect should be directly tied to how damaged the plane is.
The way it is now it just simply happens entirely too often.
Love the effect just hate the frequency

[Kweassa]

Perhaps but I still find it VERY hard to beleive that EVERY time your oil gets hit you should get oil on the windscreen.

 Depends. If you were shot from dead-6 angle the punctures to the oil pans in most engines would most probably be internal - thus, oil would leak internally, and start seeping out when the flow becomes heavier.

 However, strikes from any other angle would very probably will have a puncture running from the outer surface of the plane to the oil pan, which the oil will follow through and gush outside.

 So more often than not, if your engine oil containment is damaged, then it will splash something on your windshield. And once it splashes against your windshield, it will ride the surface and leave streaks.

 ....

ps) Maybe they could use 3~4 different oil leak textures varying on depth of damage to the oil containment...?

[RTSigma]

I don't like the oil on the windscreen. Too often, and covers WAY too much.

I wouldn't mind a random direction where it spills out on your right side, left side, or sprays in your cockpit, but more often than anything, if I'm hit, I get oil all over and its not that its a bad idea, I can't see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Coats.