People use the film viewer to set up pictures and make videos. But the film viewer is buggy and cumbersome to use, which makes this hard, and results in people doing less of that than they otherwise would (which is free advertising for Aces High).
Here are some things that would make it look nicer and/or be easier to use. A lot of them are probably hard to do, so I don't expect they will happen, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
-- Render clouds correctly. Current ones look like this in film viewer (weird dark ones):
but look like this in actual game play:
-- Make it easier to do "field of view" zoom in external view. Currently, if you are in internal view, you can press "z" to toggle zoom and "[" and "]" to zoom in and out. You can't do that type of zoom when you are in external view. Z works, but [ and ] don't zoom in and out and the "field of view" slider does nothing. So you have to go internal, get the zoom level you want, go to external, if it's not what you want, go back to internal, zoom in and out, etc.
-- Make fast forwarding faster. It is painfully slow currently to get to a time point you want.
-- Make it so that reverse works. You can't reverse back from an explosion, smoke trail, destroyed enemy plane, etc., as they give visual problems when you reverse to a time point before they happened. Makes it hard to set up shots, as you can only approach the moment you are trying to take a picture of from one direction, and if you go past, you have to stop the film, fast forward to just before where you wanted, slowly creep up on it so as not to pass it, then take your shot.
-- Graphics are not as good as in the game. If you are making videos from the film viewer, they don't look as good as if you made them while flying in the game.
-- Formation planes jitter around in the film viewer (when they weren't jittering in the real play). Like here:
https://youtu.be/Xk9V66e88eI?t=152-- Moving ships don't behave in the film viewer as they do in the game. Makes it hard to make videos or pics of attacking moving ships.
