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Title: Water Crash
Post by: earl1937 on March 16, 2014, 09:11:36 AM
 :airplane:  Had something happen a couple of nights ago, just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience! I was approaching a CV at about 20 feet in a TBM, planned on zooming up to 200 feet, dropping fish, the running like a deer!
Of course they were firing at me and a large shell hit the water just in front of me and I flew right through the water with no ill effects at all. I thought that would or should cause a crash, but nothing happened at all. Did I luck out or is that the way it is in this game. (BTW, got shot down when I zoomed to release fish).
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: BluBerry on March 16, 2014, 09:53:13 AM
Currently water is not modeled in the game. So what you flew through was just a texture, the same as flying through fire or clouds.

The splash you saw was an animation, like when a tank shell lands near you and kicks up dirt.



Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: zack1234 on March 16, 2014, 09:55:18 AM
So its not real water? :old:
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: Lusche on March 16, 2014, 10:20:18 AM
Just like fire is no real fire and doesn't damage you if you fly through it. Just an animation, not an object.
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: colmbo on March 16, 2014, 10:32:22 AM
I remember reading that our fleets used main battery fire into the water to defend against low flying attackers, the idea being just what ET described.
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: zack1234 on March 16, 2014, 11:28:47 AM
Just like fire is no real fire and doesn't damage you if you fly through it. Just an animation, not an object.

cheers :old:
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: scott66 on March 16, 2014, 01:43:39 PM
Currently water is not modeled in the game. So what you flew through was just a texture, the same as flying through fire or clouds.

The splash you saw was an animation, like when a tank shell lands near you and kicks up dirt.




unless it's a HE round when gv.ing
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: captain1ma on March 16, 2014, 01:55:39 PM
is there enough of an impact to cause it to go off, or is it just a splash from the shell? is the shell actually ricocheting when it hits the water? I know bullets will, so why not big shells at low angles? I think the impact of hitting the water is creating a splash or spray and you get a free plane wash out of the deal.... my 2 cents.
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: Arlo on March 16, 2014, 02:26:55 PM
is there enough of an impact to cause it to go off, or is it just a splash from the shell? is the shell actually ricocheting when it hits the water? I know bullets will, so why not big shells at low angles? I think the impact of hitting the water is creating a splash or spray and you get a free plane wash out of the deal.... my 2 cents.

A large splash generates enough volume of water to negatively impact the plane's flight. It's not like flying through the rain.
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: zack1234 on March 17, 2014, 02:32:54 AM
Are the trees real?
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: danny76 on March 17, 2014, 02:44:20 AM
Are the trees real?


Nothing is real :(
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: zack1234 on March 17, 2014, 06:11:15 AM
If none of its real whats channel 200 about? :cry
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: danny76 on March 17, 2014, 07:35:27 AM
If none of its real whats channel 200 about? :cry

No  :bhead that bit's real
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: shotgunneeley on March 17, 2014, 08:25:03 AM
Zach the Matrix has you. You believe AH is more real than this world. Wake up and take the red pill!  :uhoh
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: captain1ma on March 17, 2014, 08:58:33 AM
A large splash generates enough volume of water to negatively impact the plane's flight. It's not like flying through the rain.

are you sure?
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on March 17, 2014, 09:05:36 AM
No  :bhead that bit's real

That's the only bit you wouldn't want to be real. Well, that and perhaps pilot wounds  :devil
Title: Re: Water Crash
Post by: LCADolby on March 17, 2014, 01:07:39 PM
are you sure?
It's the volume of water which is the trouble.
Like driving through a deep puddle in a car, it slows and is pulled further into the puddle.
The plane not only loses speed but will nose down toward the water.
Well, that's my logic.