Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Hazard69 on October 29, 2003, 05:05:28 AM
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Aces High is quite a nice sim, for the daytime anyway. The night leaves a lot to be desired.
A few suggestions:
At night the Icon range should be lowered to about d1.0.
Would put those nice night cammos on most luftwaffe aircraft to good use.
Some aircraft were dedicated night fighters with radar (Bf110?). For these aircraft the icon range remains normal (upto d6.0?)
Also silver aircraft can be seen better, maybe bombing missions will use the Lanc over the B17s at night, like in real life.
Would be nice if we had a seperate cockpit light. The effects from the auto trim lights n the gun flashes are superb but i hate firng my 50cals just to see my altimeter (especiall when in a shadow). A bit of background lighting in the cockpit is needed.
Lastly a few search lights on bases. When base is not under threat they highlight the runway. When under attack they look to the sky and "lock on" to enemy bomber formations? leading to perhaps a slight improvement in ack accuracy on lighted bomber group?
Just my two cents.
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Good ideas...
There is the problem with gamma "cheating" (I do it myself), it just about negates the night effect. But with proper night features, and especially icon range, would make me leave gamma alone...
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just imagine.....some use gamma settings in fights so they can see thru the blackout......
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To see through blackout - please enlighten me. How many times do they turn gamma up for this?
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(Never thought about people using gamma to conquer black-out, is that really possible?)
With a good quality CRT monitor, one that is properly set-up (http://td.rutgers.edu/~thayes/crt/) that is, you can see pretty well. I have not needed to fool with the gamma with the monitor I am using now, but I used to have too.
I can only guess the number of reasons people can have trouble, but beyond proper adjusting I suspect this:
"The contrast for CRTs can go as high as 700:1. The crème de la crème among today's crop of 15" LCDs have to make do with 450:1. And models with contrast ratios of 250:1 or even 200:1 aren't exactly rare, either. These low contrast ratios cause darker shades to be displayed as black. Any details that depend on these color gradations get lost in the process. "
stolen from http://www4.tomshardware.com/display/20020114/lcd-02.html