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Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: Am0n on December 31, 2001, 09:16:00 AM

Could we get a more user friendly interface for veiwing film? a few tips from my self.

• Make friendly and enemy trails a different color. It becomes difficult to keep track of the trails in large scale conflicts.
• Create a selectable interfacce (eg ctrl-I) to turn off/on the instrument panels when in outside veiw modes. Make them faded in along the edges of the screen (smaller than normal intruments to not take up valuable space.) This could be useful for newer and vetern pilots. When high in the sky, for example, its hard to judge how fast you are travleing. Also good to observe use of flaps/trim w/o having to be in the plane so you can keep a close eye on vectors of the air craft.
• Also, if possible w/o much head-ache make it possible to see things from enemy veiws, this would be a very helpful learning tool.

Just some ideas to help pilots learn and make the very steep learning curve a little easier to overcome.

[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Am0n ]

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: Am0n on January 03, 2002, 12:34:00 PM

punt

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: Raubvogel on January 03, 2002, 12:53:00 PM

sone hot keys for starting/stopping/rewind/ffwd would be nice too.

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: Seeker on January 03, 2002, 01:24:00 PM

a "browse" button to help organise films?

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: hitech on January 03, 2002, 02:10:00 PM

Hot keys for start stop are already there, go into setup keymap when in the film viewier.

We have also started work on a stand alone film view/editor wich will add many of the features you desire.

HiTech

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: AKDejaVu on January 03, 2002, 02:12:00 PM

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We have also started work on a stand alone film view/editor wich will add many of the features you desire.

SHWING!

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: Am0n on January 04, 2002, 09:41:00 AM

HiTech thank you  :cool:

Anything you can do to help rookies out is very kind, the learning curve in this sim is extremly tough. Im a old time gamer, never flew a flight sim before AH so i enjoy the challenge,  or you could say i play it for the challenge. but practicing the wrong methods is counter-productive and with the improvements that can change for the better.

Also i was thinking if would be GREAT to be able to veiw your instruments in OFFLINE mode when flying from a external veiw.. so you can see what your air craft is doing as well as keep track of your speed, climb and trim.

Thanks again!!  :cool:

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: Raubvogel on January 04, 2002, 10:18:00 AM

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Originally posted by hitech:
Hot keys for start stop are already there, go into setup keymap when in the film viewier.

We have also started work on a stand alone film view/editor wich will add many of the features you desire.

HiTech

Cool, was not aware of that.

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: Sancho on January 04, 2002, 11:05:00 AM

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Originally posted by hitech:
We have also started work on a stand alone film view/editor wich will add many of the features you desire.

Nice.  Maybe export to video is on the feature list for this program??  :)

Title: Helpful film stuff.
Post by: Seeker on January 04, 2002, 02:24:00 PM

Video export?

Too cool  :)