Author Topic: Spinning Clouds must go :( (Read 413 times)

OIO · « **on:** February 03, 2005, 10:23:10 AM »

HTC, for me going vertical is akin to suicide these days.

I pull up, following a con or escaping one... and the clouds begin to spin clockwise and counterclockwise.

This causes me to lose all sense of direction instantly. Its even worse when you trying to get a gun solution on a target as you are near the top of a loop ... the clouds are spinning then the enemy plane manouvers a bit.. and any reference point as to how your plane is oriented against the horizon is lost.

Last night for example, I follow a spitfire on a power climb, ,we are both about 90 degrees nose up, i close in, im trying to get a gun solution, the clouds are spinnning, the spitfire begins a slow upwards corkscrew... and as I try to follow the spinning clouds just zonked me out of any frame of reference as to how my plane was oriented in relation to the horizon.. i THOUGHT i was nose above horizon and that my right wing was about 60 degrees banked as i followed the spit.. but when I stalled REAL bad following the spit and my plane spun its nose earth ward I realized that i had actually been almost 90 degrees nose UP while following the spit..and that the spit was NOT doing a corkscrew but instead had leveled his nose with horizon and was doing horizontal-to-horizon turns.

The clouds spinning are extremely disorienting.

Is there any chance to remove them? Or put an option for 'solid' AH-1 type clouds instead?

hitech · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2005, 10:28:22 AM »

What cloud types are you talking about?

HiTech

Shane · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2005, 10:47:16 AM »

I remember the original clouds (light overcast and puffballs) did that, didn't even have to be going up, but rather pretty close to them.

haven't noticed the high layer doign that in their latest incarnation, but then i haven't been up that high, enough, to notice.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2005, 12:47:51 PM »

Sounds like a good reason to use the instruments on the dash to me. They aint just there to make it look real yanno.

XtrmeJ · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2005, 03:29:42 PM »

Clouds aren't supposed to spin like that. But they were used to disorient the enemy in fights, it's part of the realism factor.

The spinning however shouldn't throw you that far off, as StarofAfrica said, use your instruments. It's not hard to to tell which way is up and which way is down.

dedalos · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2005, 03:49:00 PM »

Up is where the clouds are,

JK.

I see what he is saying. He is trying to get a shot at a guy before he stals and falls off but he cant see the angle or if the guy went left right, etc. No time to look at the instraments. He is trying to get a shot off. The spinning gets him disoriented. No need for lesons in flying or how he should do it. He proly knows all that. The spinning simply should not be there.

Mugzeee · « **Reply #6 on:** February 03, 2005, 04:38:29 PM »

even though i suck. i have come to rely on the insturments constantly. I dont think i have ever noticed this as of yet. I will look for it now.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 03, 2005, 04:54:28 PM »

I think (could be wrong), but the clouds actually appear to be spinning to him. I.E. Sort of like he's drunk flying. His plane is nice and level, but the cloud is spinning.

Rasker · « **Reply #8 on:** February 03, 2005, 08:11:02 PM »

Those spinning vortices should, if hit correctly, take you into the 1946 arena (SeaFury, Do335, F8F & F7F, Kikka, A7M, La9)

OIO · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2005, 08:55:22 AM »

Hitech: Its the cloud layer at around 20k.

I go straight up (90 degree nose up) and as soon as i try to move my plane (aka roll or rudder or pitch nose up or down) the entire cloud layer begins to spin. And its not like the entire layer spins in the same direction, its kinda 'splits' into big square sections and each section spins on its own..some clockwise some counterclockwise.

Its like in AH1 when you approached the 'puffy' clouds from below you would see a bit of rotation inside the clouds... that wasnt a problem because it was just the puffy clouds, not the whole dang sky that spun.

I go up after a con and zoom into the gunsight view for better aim, the con jinxes a bit or goes over the top... and by then the clouds have spun so much i really have no clue where my plane is oriented... something that had never happened to me before. (bear in mind i last played aces high early last year before AH2 was released)

i'll see if the film recorder catches the cloud spinning and e-mail it to ya.