Improve the flight model -- make it even more realistic

[Ack-Ack]

 I'm not saying more realistic than real!

I am saying closer (more realistic) to real.  Please.    I can not explain it further.  I have tried.  Will now be silent.  

 

 

have you tried making your posts in a form of a Tweet?  Might be able to get your point through a lot easier.

ack-ack

[titanic3]

2D clouds would be a significant downgrade from what we have now.  Why do you think otherwise?

Here. http://ww2fighters.org/downloads/general/OTE_Clds.zip

It's a mod for Jane's WWII clouds. It will look like an install, but ignore it, and put the install path to your desktop. You can delete later after viewing.

Inside is about 10+ pics of custom made clouds. This is from a 12 year old game. Anyone of those looks 10x better than our clouds.

[Ack-Ack]

Keep in mind that HTC needs to keep the game small in order to make it downloadable.  If AH2 was made with the eye candy of current games like Wings of Prey, it would be a very hefty download.

ack-ack

[Karnak]

Here. http://ww2fighters.org/downloads/general/OTE_Clds.zip

It's a mod for Jane's WWII clouds. It will look like an install, but ignore it, and put the install path to your desktop. You can delete later after viewing.

Inside is about 10+ pics of custom made clouds. This is from a 12 year old game. Anyone of those looks 10x better than our clouds.

If they are 2D they will not function as clouds.  They'll just be a pretty back ground.

I am not saying the clouds in AH don't have significant room for improvement, they do, but 2D clouds are not the improvement you're looking for.

[titanic3]

Arghh.. How do I explain this.

Think of it as 3 layers. One at the bottom for people looking UP, one at the top for people looking DOWN, and one thick one in the middle for people flying through it.
AH already has the middle layer, you fly through it and things become hazy and vis range becomes hard to make out.

Adding the first and third layer of clouds, is a simple 2D image. That way, when you look at the clouds, it has the ILLUSION of being real clouds, and not just a layer of haze.

That's how it is in Jane's pretty much, and if AH were to take it up a notch and add water effects like Wings of Prey, I would spend an entire week just flying at cloud level.

[coombz]

Keep in mind that HTC needs to keep the game small in order to make it downloadable.  If AH2 was made with the eye candy of current games like Wings of Prey, it would be a very hefty download.

ack-ack

Understood, but when paying $15 / month for a game, you eventually come to a point where reasoning such as this, and the ever-popular "they can't improve the game because players will *gasp* have to upgrade their PCs ", no longer holds water

It's a tricky situation, because on the one hand, the game will continue to die off without an influx of new blood, and one of the best ways to get that new blood (imo) is to have an exciting combat flight sim that looks like it was made THIS millenium rather than last.

On the other hand, the predominately elitist community of AH wants anything BUT a load of new players coming along hordeing and HOing and generally being annoying

tricky ;]

[Midway]

have you tried making your posts in a form of a Tweet?  Might be able to get your point through a lot easier.

ack-ack

Tweet: The flight/physics/weather model is sweet, repeat, the model is sweet... Further improvements would be neat, and quite the treat.  

 

[Ruah]

this is one of those threads to post on so people can keep working towards radioactive status right/

[VonMessa]

Didn't think of that.

Just wanted to clarify my previous post, I'm not saying we should have winds, I'm could not think of a reason why we don't have them.

When was the last time you flew a taildragger?

Cross winds and ground loops would have most in the tower before they even got off the runway.  The whines would be epic.

On second thought, I say go for it         

[Debrody]

this is one of those threads to post on so people can keep working towards radioactive status right/

nope, its one of the "look at me PLEEEAAAZZZE, noone else wanna do it anyway" ones
close, tho  : )

[stabbyy]

+1

could use things such as 2 planes colliding at over 800mph neither flys away....(currently 1 of them useally survives)

but im all for the general idea

[IrishOne]

only 4 pages?   weak troll Midway.   you can do better.

[FLS]

+1

could use things such as 2 planes colliding at over 800mph neither flys away....(currently 1 of them useally survives)

but im all for the general idea

Your confusion stems from the fact that it's 4 planes not 2.

[Reaper90]

tweet: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

[IrishOne]

Your confusion stems from the fact that it's 4 planes not 2.

well put