Damage.....

[Pirado]

Hi!
Just curious about the damage modeling in AH.
Will props get dammage when hit?
yeah.. prop damage wasnt a miracle....

Thx

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Pirado
"The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first."
Adolf Galland

[glars]

Here's a list of damages:

Engine oil leak
Engine disabled
Left gear damaged
Right gear damaged
Tailwheel damaged
Right aileron
Left aileron
Right flap
Left flap
Left wing damaged
Left wing destroyed
Right wing damaged
Right wing destroyed
Horizontal stab damaged
Horizontal stab destroyed
Vertical stab damaged
Vertical stab destroyed
Elevator damaged
Elevator destroyed
Rudder damaged
Rudder destroyed
Rear fuselage destroyed
Fuel tank 1 leak
Fuel tank 2 leak
Fuel tank 3 leak
Fuel tank 4 leak
Fuel tank 5 leak
Fire
Hydraulic leak
Pilot wounded



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Glars
RNZAF
 http://glarsmaps.warbirds.org  

[Bugjam]

WHOOOAAAA!!  

What does wing/stab/vator/rudder damage do? Decreased control or decreased structural limits? Or both? I surely understand what happens if they're destroyed  

How about hydraulic leak... does it affect anything else but landing gear and flaps on some planes?

So there is no coolant leak right?

Thanks

Bug  

[This message has been edited by Bugjam (edited 09-24-1999).]

[PIRATE AHA*]

Sound's like fun  

[-bmbm-]

Sounds pretty basic to me. Disappointing.

I lack several factors, such as:
individual guns
coolant leaks
radio
oxygen
supercharger
cylinder(s)
gunsight
control panel
throttle/mixture lever

Dunno how official your list is Glars, but it seems to indicate an incremental hitmap damage model rather than one which computes bullet trajectory through the aircraft.


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-bmbm-, XO 56th FG

[PIRATE AHA*]

on the b17 in AH the smoke on damaged engines will the smoke, oil come from each engine thats damage instead on aw the smoke,oil comes from the tail of the plane blinding the tail gunner <Cough>?

[glars]

Bmbm it's a list as of now but who knows what's inside HT's head that has yet to see the light of day?

There'll be plenty of beta releases to see what does/doesn't work.

I'm kind of intrigued to see the 'pilot wounded' one in action.

I'll be looking for a sharpshooter to give me a John-Wayne-just-a-flesh-wound-in-the-left-shoulder so I can experience that one I guess.

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Glars
RNZAF
 http://glarsmaps.warbirds.org  

[Papa]

Glars, what about pilot kills?

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Wbr,
Andrey "Papa" Lutsenko

[Pirado]

Parachute failure?

Thx

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Pirado
"The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first."
Adolf Galland

[glars]

Parachute failure is there if you don't remember to open it as most of us forgot to do the first few times  

Oh and if you do remember to open the chute and you make it down safely pray you're not too far from base cos it's a long walk home with no ground vehicles in there yet.

glars

[Pirado]

Hitech and gang. Can you guys put a jeep and some boats with the AH beta?
 

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Pirado
"The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first."
Adolf Galland

[roblex]

Fighter Squadron manages to do damage per polygon which is nice so that a certain amount of damage causes structural failure. This mean syou can lose wingtips, half a tailplane etc. and the flight model is adjusted accordingly. Obviously there is also special code for engine & gunners & undercarriage etc.  Last night I landed a JU88 badly while in a chase view and watched one wheel break away and bounce along the runway beside me. after sliding to a halt with bent props etc I was amused then sit and watch the wheel making ever decreasing circles until coming to rest with a realistic wobble. Now that is damage modelling!

[phaetn]

Yup, it is.

Never going to see that in an on-line game in the near future though!

That wheel and its relative position would have to be transmitted to everyone within a certain distance.  Bandwidth issues are problematic enough without taking into account items that are only for the benefit of the singular player.

If it could be done on the player's FE only it would be a different story, but then other problems arise.

Cheers,
ph

[roblex]

Errr...Fighter Squadron IS an online game. Bouncing wheels and fluttering debris are modelled offline and online though obviously it has to affect framerates. I must say I have not noticed any effects but I suppuse if the game can handle 16 players it must have enough capacity for the more usual 8 players plus debris. A fluttering wing must take less CPU than an AI controlled fighter dogfighting.