Author Topic: Sun Burn (Read 318 times)

mudder · « **on:** March 24, 2002, 07:45:19 AM »

Can the area of the sky that is blinded by the sun be increased in size? Not the actual sun size itself, but the "blinding" area. I need some extra advantage:D

Wotan · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2002, 09:48:12 AM »

a lot of folks would like this as well..........

me included

Karnak · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2002, 06:26:01 PM »

Here's a wish for Il-2's sun effects. Those were simply the best sun glare effects I have seen in a computer game.

Kweassa · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2002, 01:38:21 AM »

ditto Karnak

But if putting in that kind of light effect has problems...
then I'm all for what mudder said.

Wilbus · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2002, 05:59:27 AM »

Even old Warbirds 1.9 and 2.0 had nice sun effects where the sun could actually be used to an advantage. AH finaly, after 2 years actually got this "put a plane in the middle of the sun and have a bit more touble seeing him" weird sun blinding wannabee thing.

No need for fancy effects IMO, just something that blind up and light the screen up.

Try and look at the sun a nice day (always nice day in AH) and you'll notice ya can't look anywhere near it withouth having to close your eyes pretty much and there is no way in hell you can see somebody coming in from the sun in an attack (in air combat, don't ask me who'd come in from the sun to attack me on the ground).

popeye · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2002, 08:54:03 AM »

Gets my vote.

SKurj · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2002, 09:00:34 AM »

mine too

SKurj

ergRTC · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2002, 12:33:32 PM »

Are you in the habit of wearing aluminium hats wilbus? Gotta watch out for the mind control...

Sun effect is pretty limp in AH. Was even better in aw.

Thrawn · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2002, 12:56:20 PM »

All for a bigger effect from the sun here.

Midnight · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2002, 02:50:50 PM »

would be nice.

Sun effect kind of works now, but it is too tough to really get a feel for where the sun is (without looking right at it) so it can be used in an advantage.

If the sun effect is increased, I hope that shadowing effects will go along with it. That way you can get a relative position of the sun by how the shadows fall.

In a dive, put your shadow on the target and you know his arse is blind to you

Mark Luper · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2002, 06:20:15 PM »

Hehe...
I remember when they first put glaring sun effects in WB.

Everyone (seems like everyone) cried about it. It was pretty realistic, it's just nobody really wanted it as much as they thought they did, me included

pbirmingham · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2002, 09:04:46 PM »

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Originally posted by Wilbus

Try and look at the sun a nice day (always nice day in AH) and you'll notice ya can't look anywhere near it withouth having to close your eyes pretty much and there is no way in hell you can see somebody coming in from the sun in an attack (in air combat, don't ask me who'd come in from the sun to attack me on the ground).

A quote from Shaw, page 165:

"I closed one eye, holding the tip of my little finger up in front of the open orb, blocking out just the fiery ball of the sun in front of my opened eye. I found that it was impossible for an enemy to come down from out of the sun on a moving target without showing up somewhere outside of my fingertip if I continuously kept the fiery part from my vision."

-- Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC

Midnight · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2002, 10:57:09 PM »

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Originally posted by pbirmingham

A quote from Shaw, page 165:

"I closed one eye, holding the tip of my little finger up in front of the open orb, blocking out just the fiery ball of the sun in front of my opened eye. I found that it was impossible for an enemy to come down from out of the sun on a moving target without showing up somewhere outside of my fingertip if I continuously kept the fiery part from my vision."

-- Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC

Oh yes, and that is a realistic endevour while flying in combat. Maybe he could do that while flying in formation, but once the action started, I highly doubt he kept is little finger in front of his eye.

Not doubting Pappy's quote, but regardless of what he was able to do there, our sun effect is virually non existant except to cause the enemy to turn into a bright orange silloette. You can look right at them, even when the sun is directly behind them.