Patch 82

[Skuzzy]

New version up!

Today is the day!

[Bizman]

Updated with no issues. Removed the terrain files from the ah3terr folder before starting the game. Yes, the terrains seemed to load fast, about half a minute each.

What I found odd, was that after quitting using the quit button the arena choice screen was white for roughly 5 seconds before the image showed.

[MADe]

4 arenas loaded fairly fast after .res delete.

dam it looks good graphically. sharp, colors a little better, getting 60f/s, ave 900mb vram.
reflections still a little to much, nice, realistic but its approaching interference level. Keeping up with the cockpit dash is tuff as it is, especially for a non-real life pilot, plus who wants to waste time bouncing head around to get around reflections on dash guage glass.

1 arena had a fast time sequence, see attach.
did not try .date

[bustr]

Skins should now be functional doesn't mean you can simply copy skins over from AH2. Tried that with the spit8.

[Skuzzy]

Skins should now be functional doesn't mean you can simply copy skins over from AH2. Tried that with the spit8.

Skins from AH2 will not work with AH3.  We have to make a modification to the skin for them to work in AH3.

[bustr]

Thanks skuzzy, I though I scroowed my pooch.

[bustr]

There is a constant horizon color transition dark layer at all hours. You can just make it out in the dark. Here are screen captures of early morning and mid day.

[100Coogn]

Need to get ya some scratch guard on that canopy.

Coogan

[FLS]

I set the date with .date 10 30 2015 and I set my current time and the moon and constellations appeared correctly.

There is a constant horizon color transition dark layer at all hours.

I think that's the distant ocean.

[715]

Setting .date without parameters crashes the alpha (instead of printing an instruction message like other dot commands do).

Stars match my planetarium program (stellarium) well.  The moon position almost matches, but it is ever so slightly off.*  Moon phase seems to match.  Planets are either wrong or not implemented. 

Is the latitude still set to Dallas?

.res download is much faster than before.  (Maybe even 10 times faster?)

*going by it's center; I know it is intentionally several times too big.

Edit: forgot about bumping into trees.  Mostly bumping into trees with a Jeep worked fine.  In one case it didn't: the screen went black and I couldn't move.  However, the program was still running and an ".ef" put me back into the tower with a proper view.  I could not duplicate this (although in one other case there was a brief flash of white).

[FLS]

Double Trouble Too is looking good. 



The glare seems rather bright. This is the left and right view with the sun on the left.

   

[mrmidi]

Installing patch 81 to 82 gives error Install failed at file "stdshape.res"

[ebfd11]

The aiming circle is missing from the 17lber..also game froze up when i exited the first time after d/l ... I had to use Cntrl/Alt Del to exit.

LawnDart

[hitech]

There is a constant horizon color transition dark layer at all hours. You can just make it out in the dark. Here are screen captures of early morning and mid day.

Fixed for the next patch

[oboe]

Skins from AH2 will not work with AH3.  We have to make a modification to the skin for them to work in AH3.

Are there special instructions for skinners in AH3?   For example, if I'd like to update some of my oldest bare metal P-38 skins, how would I do it?