Smoke and Wreckage

[PJ_Godzilla]

IMHO, one of the things missing from AH is smoke and wreckage. This may sound like a purely aesthetic concern. However, recently, I'm been doing a little work on my ground-pounding. I've studied the Eastern front quite a bit and, one sure giveaway to the location of the battle involving AFVs is the column of black smoke over each killed tank. It's a dead giveaway from both ground and air. Such a plume should last for a good long time - long after the hapless crew has been roasted. 

I'd also like to see debris left at the airfields from past airstrikes - ideally, the kind of debris you can hit and from which you can receive damage.

Also, what are the odds that every corpse and every shot-down wreck can be allowed to live as debris on the forum floor, at least 'til tour end? It'd be cool if aircraft garbage/dead pilots turned into terrain feature yet retained colors.



I'm very American in the sense that I want to leave a cluttered battlefield.

[Kirin]

Sounds like fun. And you could easily spot the hotspots of the Tour by the piles of wrecks & debris...

Although I doubt the do-ability of this idea the visual impact would be great. Plus the formentioned tactical value. OTH I can see people crash their planes deliberately to build a wreck-wall -    ... and there would be the necessity to model a caterpillar or something to push the wrecks off the flightdeck on cv   

[uptown]

you would have no frame rates if you did that

[Lusche]

Also, what are the odds that every corpse and every shot-down wreck can be allowed to live as debris on the forum floor, at least 'til tour end?

Won't work, because maps don't last for more than a week

Furthermore, there are like 60,000 deaths in LWO per week... you really want to clutter the map with 60,000 wrecks?

[JimmyC]

sounds quite funky tho....
maybe give them an hour delay..would still get the impact your looking for

[Lusche]

sounds quite funky tho....
maybe give them an hour delay..would still get the impact your looking for

A good gv battle can quickly produce hundreds of wrecks in a very small area, and so does a huge air battle.

[Heater]

Would be a nice effect, But frame rate would would take a hit, with that said, it may be possible to have them fade away after x number of minutes....

Maybe the PUTZ can add his thoughts....

[Vinkman]

IMHO, one of the things missing from AH is smoke and wreckage. This may sound like a purely aesthetic concern. However, recently, I'm been doing a little work on my ground-pounding. I've studied the Eastern front quite a bit and, one sure giveaway to the location of the battle involving AFVs is the column of black smoke over each killed tank. It's a dead giveaway from both ground and air. Such a plume should last for a good long time - long after the hapless crew has been roasted. 

I'd also like to see debris left at the airfields from past airstrikes - ideally, the kind of debris you can hit and from which you can receive damage.

Also, what are the odds that every corpse and every shot-down wreck can be allowed to live as debris on the forum floor, at least 'til tour end? It'd be cool if aircraft garbage/dead pilots turned into terrain feature yet retained colors.



I'm very American in the sense that I want to leave a cluttered battlefield.

I like the idea. Reminds me of CAll of Duty where the body's stack up all the place. I agree frame rate  might be a difficult work around.

[SIK1]

It seems to me that I saw this very same idea in the wishlist forum a while back.

[dkff49]

I personally don't care if the view is there or not but one way it might work is the wreckage stays until that player re-ups in same location or after 20 minutes which ever comes first.

[Blooz]

Maybe could have a standard vehicle or plane wreck graphic that will give the right look to a battlefield but isn't persistant, like the way bomb craters work.

Maybe make the smoke a bit thicker and taller than when a vehicle is damaged but not like building smoke where it causes a huge frame rate hit.

[Guppy35]

Thought this thread was about my P38G....

[SIK1]

Thought this thread was about my P38G....

All those wrecks alone would kill my frame rates.

[LLogann]

One day maybe, but not yet..........

When everybody has a constant 100mB fiber pipe at their house, then it might work. 

[PJ_Godzilla]

Won't work, because maps don't last for more than a week

Furthermore, there are like 60,000 deaths in LWO per week... you really want to clutter the map with 60,000 wrecks?

Yes please    -and don't forget the corpses.