Wingtip vortices

[Viperius]

Would it be possible to expand AH2's graphic engine to display wingtip vortices?

[Strip]

The tools are already there, see the fuel leaks and smoke as examples....

Might take a bit of tweaking to make them look right though.

Strip

[Viperius]

A slight adjusment to the allready in place "Trail" code 

[Volron]

It would be sweet to see con trails on an aircraft pulling hard maneuvers.  But what about aircraft flying at high alt?  Vapor trails would be cool.  You'd have to figure how to make it different from a fuel leak though.   Otherwise, you might think you are fine, when in fact, you have a fuel leak.

[curry1]

and then you hit control+d to see what part of your plane is damaged.

[Denholm]

Wingtip vortices would indeed be a nice addition to the list of eye candy. Vapor trails are somewhat controversial as there have been talks of spotting bombers more easily, decreased frame-rates, and an increase in lag. Regardless, I continue to support both wishes.

[JunkyII]

It would be sweet to see con trails on an aircraft pulling hard maneuvers.  But what about aircraft flying at high alt?  Vapor trails would be cool.  You'd have to figure how to make it different from a fuel leak though.   Otherwise, you might think you are fine, when in fact, you have a fuel leak.

Didnt they fix it so when the tank was out of fuel it stops the trail?

 

[Volron]

Didnt they fix it so when the tank was out of fuel it stops the trail?

 

Bah!  I COMPLETELY forgot about that.  Though I honestly have to say, it would be nice if you can still use the tank that is bleeding dry.  You know, to at least get SOME use out of it before it's empty.  As is, you get a fuel leak, it automatically switches to the next tank and you can't switch to the leaking tank (I'm not sure if you were manually controlling your fuel usage when you got hit).  You'd have to make sure you switch before it runs dry.  As for those of you who would say, "That would be a pain in the arse.", if you manually changed to it and crashed, or got ganked because of a dead engine, well, you did it to yourself. 

and then you hit control+d to see what part of your plane is damaged.

I don't use the ctrl+d command very much, if at all.  The gauges and indicators (if I don't visually spot the problem), will tell me something is wrong.  Kinda hard to miss a fuel leak as you'd have a "swivel" head in combat anyway.    And if you manage to miss an oil leak on a single engine aircraft, well, I honestly don't know WHAT to say to that...    The same goes for Pilot Wound.    Losing flaps would be kinda hard to peg on certain aircraft until you use them or if you are using them when you lose one, but you can almost always tell right away, if you lost an aileron, elevator or rudder (for those of us who actually use it).

[gyrene81]

Wingtip vortices would indeed be a nice addition to the list of eye candy. Vapor trails are somewhat controversial as there have been talks of spotting bombers more easily, decreased frame-rates, and an increase in lag. Regardless, I continue to support both wishes.

If you did see any signs of vortices off the wings of the planes in AH...the weather conditions would have to be correct and the effect would be fleeting...nothing like you see on modern jet aircraft.

[PJ_Godzilla]

Yes, but contrails, otoh, were significant to both defender and attacker.

I do like the tip vortex idea. If they occur realistically, then you can only call any resultant confusion between your tip vortices and a fuel leakto be realistic. I seriously doubt I'd confuse the two, done correctly. As noted above, the volume of air affected is small enough for our a/c set that visual effects would be muted w/r e/g/ a low alt F-16.

[Denholm]

If you did see any signs of vortices off the wings of the planes in AH...the weather conditions would have to be correct and the effect would be fleeting...nothing like you see on modern jet aircraft.

I'm aware of that. That's why I also support (have for some time) the implementation of weather.

[gyrene81]

I'm aware of that. That's why I also support (have for some time) the implementation of weather.

I'd rather see contrails at high alts...more common than the occasional wingtip vortice on a WWII era prop plane.

[PJ_Godzilla]

I'd rather see contrails at high alts...more common than the occasional wingtip vortice on a WWII era prop plane.

Indeed.

Oddly, we have yet to mention prop vortices here. It'd likely occur under very similar conditions - high moisture content air precip'ing due to the pressure decrease on the "lifted" (pressure decreased) side of the prop airfoil section

[Volron]

That would also be awesome.  Chances are, if they were to add just one of these at a time, the contrails at high altitude would be the first put in.  Would be neat to be sitting in a tower, then start seeing contrails of bombers going by on a strat/HQ raid.

[Kazaa]

More eye candy please.