Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: LLv34_Dictonius on August 28, 2014, 10:34:08 AM
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Pretty interesting video my squad mate posted in Facebook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uCGsyjt5ANU
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Truly amazing! Thank your friend for the effort he put in to that. :aok German engineering at it's best. :salute
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Me and my bad english! Instead of "posted" I should've use the word "linked". So my friend is not the mastermind here, though he is aircraft engineer maintaining hornets. But I will thank him for advertising this video never the less :o
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How does that compare to the AH 190s?
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You gotta love real life practical examples. Nicely done to whomever the video creator is :cheers:
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That is very interesting, thanks for posting!
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:aok
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Why is this in O'club?
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Holy crap!!
It has a periscope effect. Okay, next update this needs to be applied to all Fw-190s. AH needs to make the change.
Boo
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Well, not only the 190, but all aircraft with thick armored glass. The 190 is special however since it's armored glass is sloped at such an extreme angle the refraction effect becomes critical to the view.
(http://www.meritnation.com/img/shared/userimages/mn_images/image/a_23_4.PNG)
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woiw that's sick. can we get it in AH
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always bemoaned when HTC neutered the 190 visibility. this makes sense.
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Thinning out the canopy goes against all the AH2 rules of making sure you get your target on the deck low and slow and take them out while they are turning with full flaps down.
AH2 cockpit view = looking thru a straw view
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This is the same as cutting the wrong pavilion refraction angle in the base of a gemstone. You end up with the table or the top of the gemstone acting as a porthole for seeing everything around just below it magnified in size. It's supposed to act as a pinpoint concentrator of refracted light which you see as sparkle.
Glass has a refractive index of 1.52 or 41°28'.
In the film the glass was set at 25°. Or you get a semi fish eye and magnifying effect, while eliminating the apparent real thickness of the glass sides. Hitech needs to know the angle that the thick armored glass is mounted relative to the windscreen. If it is less than 41°28', some amount of semi fish eye will be in play. To us that just means a little thinning of the uprights say like with the new C.202 and C.205. In the case of the glass in the film, about a 1\7 thinning. I don't think the optically magnified width of view can be recreated in a 2D world faking the illusion of 3D with pixels.
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Creating the refraction effect in game would be like adding mirrors methinks. 2 separate pictures rendered. I think a good way to make this effect is simply make the model look normal from the outside, but different on the inside.
But what do I know. I'll let you guys figure it out.
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Why is this in O'club?
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You mean it should be in the wishlist?
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Yeah, or A&V.
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Wow - that made so much sense! I mean, even with the restrictions of monitors and 2d view I always wondered how those pilots were even able to see out of their planes, less shoot something. So we might see modeled refraction in the next generation of sims!
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Holy jesus! The difference is AMAZING!
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Super video.