new plane explosion graphic

[caldera]

Kind of like how the tanks pop their turret - have a fighter's engine flying out of the explosion.  Just a little something to make some cool screenshots with.

[Tyrannis]

Kind of like how the tanks pop their turret - have a fighter's engine flying out of the explosion.  Just a little something to make some cool screenshots with.

dont parts go flying when a plane explodes anyways?

[titanic3]

Only rarely. The explosions are pretty old and outdated.
Having updated explosions and hit sprites would definitely be sexy.

Things like a huge puff of smoke, and flying through it, you can see your prop wash.
Or the plane slowly breaking up, firing sparking, then exploding to bits.

Or having the cannon rounds lighting up the plane, sparks, smoke and the like.
Have a small explosion go off when your wing gets torned off.
Have maybe a shockwave visible when a plane crashes or even in the air.
Have the fires spread out when a plane crashes, not permanently, just so you can see the plane roll and skid on the ground in a ball of fire.
Have DIRT! Make dirt splash up with debris and what not.

[skorpion]

dont parts go flying when a plane explodes anyways?

they dont really explode. they just kind of fall off. or maybe you're talking about when a plane goes "poof" and you have those 2 flaming pieces of debris?

[guncrasher]

I read somewhere that even when the airplanes crashed into the ground there was rarely a fireball.  kindda like happens with cars now, they just fall apart but no explosion.  would be cool to have it like it happens in the movies though .


semp

[titanic3]

I read somewhere that even when the airplanes crashed into the ground there was rarely a fireball.  kindda like happens with cars now, they just fall apart but no explosion.  would be cool to have it like it happens in the movies though .


semp

I would think all the ammo carried would cause a nice a explosion with secondaries going off everywhere. AC fuel is also more flammable is it not?

I've seen a couple of WWII gun cams showing planes crash and there definitely was a fireball. Whether or not those planes carried drop tanks/ordnance is another matter.
Nothing wrong with over the top explosions though

[Pigslilspaz]

I read somewhere that even when the airplanes crashed into the ground there was rarely a fireball.  kindda like happens with cars now, they just fall apart but no explosion.  would be cool to have it like it happens in the movies though .


semp

That's because they use Pintos in the movies.

[FBCrabby]

Ouch, I can hear my frame-rate crying already

[Raphael]

agreed, would be nice to get a option "detailed explosion" and HTC could work on some really nice looking explosion animations that vary randomly 

[TylerMac]

I remember yearsss ago, I played Jane's combat sims and there was a WW2 sim they had.  When a plane hit the ground, it broke up realistically and slid and rolled and such.

[titanic3]

I remember yearsss ago, I played Jane's combat sims and there was a WW2 sim they had.  When a plane hit the ground, it broke up realistically and slid and rolled and such.

My first sim.... *sniff*

They had two mods that changed the explosions graphics which looked fantastic. Every single bit that came off a plane had flames trailing it, even the rudder, wingtips and landing gear. 
It was over the top, but it was cool to see two bombers crashing into each other and exploding into a million flaming bits.
I don't know how it would appear in AH, but in Jane's WWII, I took almost no FPS drop with the mod and was running on an integrated Intel Chip 7 years ago.

[titanic3]

If your PC can't handle 2D flames (which look 10x better than ours), and graphics from a 12 year old game, something is wrong.

[skorpion]

I remember yearsss ago, I played Jane's combat sims and there was a WW2 sim they had.  When a plane hit the ground, it broke up realistically and slid and rolled and such.

that game is so much fun! i still have the second disk. i lost the first one years ago, still trying to find a place (or at least someone) that sells it.

[THRASH99]

If they could, I'd like to see a graphic explosion that IL2 has when a plane goes into the ground or blows up, then the fire would disappear several seconds later.