Author Topic: Suggestion for sun effects(simple, easy to understand!) (Read 414 times)

214thCavalier · « **Reply #1 on:** December 15, 2003, 09:28:18 AM »

Back to ground school for you !

Basics 101.

Aircraft recognition.

Its a P51 not a Spitfire DOLT !

Kweassa · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2003, 09:32:10 AM »

The area which forces the icon to fade out, in the above picture, is pretty large, since the gunner is directly looking at the sun.

If the sun was obscured by a hand or something, he'd be able to spot the Spitfire icon in real life.

So, I'm suggesting to implement icon fade, which is determined in relation to the intensity of sunlight effect to the pilot's point of view.

The reason that the icon fades back in to visible, even when the sunlight is still intense, is my suggestion of gameplay concession - making it possible to spot the plane at the periphery of the screen.

So, it's sort of a mixed system, where the intensity of the sunlight first and foremostly fades all icons to a point, but the when at the periphery of the screen, still visible a bit. If this is too gamey, the icon can just stay invisible all the way, if the sunlight is that intense, as shown above.

Kweassa · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2003, 09:33:05 AM »

Crap!

My mind must have been outside or something when I made the text..!!

..

Well, just imagine the text says "P-51D"

Duedel · « **Reply #4 on:** December 15, 2003, 09:46:07 AM »

I would faint the dot too (from black to grey to white to grey to black).

vorticon · « **Reply #5 on:** December 15, 2003, 08:12:53 PM »

if the gunner is looking right at the sun...shouldent he be blind???

Toad · « **Reply #6 on:** December 16, 2003, 12:57:49 AM »

I think that's during an eclipse, the blindness thing.

straffo · « **Reply #7 on:** December 16, 2003, 02:12:46 AM »

Partially right Toad.

It remind me the Histolgie/Cytologie/Anat-path lesson I got during my other life as a medecine student

In fact (and as usual I'll explain it badly

) when looking directly at sun during daylight the protection mecanism who react to the intensity of light will act good (you canno't stare at sun without reacting).

But during an eclipse where there is obviously not as much light but still a strong IR/UV exposition this system don't work.
The real problem is the lack of pain sensible nervous cell in the eye

When you will starting feeling some pain (in general a sorot of headache) it's already too late ... you're blind (or almost).

I can't believe I've done an almost medical post in AH