Beta 30 ** DX9 ** Released: Issues/Bug Reports

[hitech]

Has anybody seen arrows like this before?  They showed up in an offline staged mission.

They are part of the mission training system

[caldera]

Still having the same issues for a very long time now.

The fleet view for gun selection is sinking off the bottom of the page.  The ships could stand to be made bigger too.

The plane weights and convergence lines are still being washed out if you don't use shadows.

[ONTOS]

Is the new ship a Battleship or still a CA ? If it's BBL, are the main guns 16' and if so, will their range be increased over the CA's 8".

[ONTOS]

Still having problems wit exhaust smoke coming into the cockpit during startup( A6M's 109's and a few others).

[hitech]

Still having problems wit exhaust smoke coming into the cockpit during startup( A6M's 109's and a few others).

I know of no way to fix this.

HiTech

[Bizman]

I know of no way to fix this.

HiTech

Could it be a skinning issue? Most planes that suffer from this have a deep cavity below the instrument panel. Is there an actual wall behind the pedals and if there is, what is the transparency level. More important, if there's a wall, is it something like the walls of the buildings, looking solid on the outside but disappear if you somehow manage to get inside? Like the see-thru mirror seen in all of the police tv shows.

[hitech]

Could it be a skinning issue? Most planes that suffer from this have a deep cavity below the instrument panel. Is there an actual wall behind the pedals and if there is, what is the transparency level. More important, if there's a wall, is it something like the walls of the buildings, looking solid on the outside but disappear if you somehow manage to get inside? Like the see-thru mirror seen in all of the police tv shows.

It's not a skinning issue. I know what causes the smoke, an do to they way it works, it know of no simply way to fix it. Simply put the smoke is being drawn in an area. The system has no way of distinguishing what is inside or out side of the plane.

HiTech

[Bizman]

That's what I feared. If I understood you correctly, there's sort of a box in the lower front part of the fuselage where the smoke appears and in some planes parts of the cockpit reside inside that box. Or am I still lost? Anyway, thanks for explaining it because the issue has been reported several times without being answered.

[hitech]

That's what I feared. If I understood you correctly, there's sort of a box in the lower front part of the fuselage where the smoke appears and in some planes parts of the cockpit reside inside that box. Or am I still lost? Anyway, thanks for explaining it because the issue has been reported several times without being answered.

That is basically the issue.

HiTech

[Bizman]

Now this might be a silly question since I don't know anything about coding: If the smoke is in a box which is partially situated inside the fuselage, would it be possible to either make the box shorter or shallower, or move it either down or forward just as you could do with a physical box attached to a cylinder?

[Condor]

Zooming the view from plane or GV is the reverse of AH2. In AH2 ] zooms in and [ out. It's the reverse in AH3. I have zoom mapped to the POV on my throttle so I really didn't notice this until today when I moved from AH2 to AH3 and the zoom seemed different. So I confirmed it with the keys. INSERT and DELETE zoom the map in and out just as in AH2.

Noticed that some of the grass growing in the O'Club is just floating above the planks and not emerging from the gaps.

[hitech]

Now this might be a silly question since I don't know anything about coding: If the smoke is in a box which is partially situated inside the fuselage, would it be possible to either make the box shorter or shallower, or move it either down or forward just as you could do with a physical box attached to a cylinder?

I said basically,It has nothing to do with a box,  it really is a collection flat sprites/particls being emitted from a point. That point is set at the exhaust system.

HiTech

[hitech]

Zooming the view from plane or GV is the reverse of AH2. In AH2 ] zooms in and [ out. It's the reverse in AH3. I have zoom mapped to the POV on my throttle so I really didn't notice this until today when I moved from AH2 to AH3 and the zoom seemed different. So I confirmed it with the keys. INSERT and DELETE zoom the map in and out just as in AH2.

Noticed that some of the grass growing in the O'Club is just floating above the planks and not emerging from the gaps.

That was in the release notes, it had always been backwards in AH2. I could not simply relabel because then the zoom in external view would be backwards.

HiTech

[bustr]

Now this might be a silly question since I don't know anything about coding: If the smoke is in a box which is partially situated inside the fuselage, would it be possible to either make the box shorter or shallower, or move it either down or forward just as you could do with a physical box attached to a cylinder?

Biz,

Now that Hitech responded to how the exhaust is generated, I'm more enlightened and letting it go as a game feature. Yesterday I spent time inside cockpits and in F3 watching smoke to try and understand it myself. It looks like the answer could be simple if you go by the structures in the cockpits in front of your rudder pedals that don't leak smoke. Then you look at the outside as the smoke is generated and there is no gotcha you can point at in the sameness from plane to plane. At this point maybe we wish for a pilot engine start up coughing and hairball hacking sound until the cockpit clears.....  

[Bizman]

I said basically,It has nothing to do with a box,  it really is a collection flat sprites/particls being emitted from a point. That point is set at the exhaust system.

HiTech

Since the point can't be moved, I'm happy with some smoke in the cabin. After all it's only for a couple of seconds.

The most important thing is to know you're aware of it.