| Luno13 |
03-29-2013 06:28 AM |
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Originally Posted by Alien
(Post 500442)
Well, in CoD there's just a little splash, like in Il-2 when a part of a plane falls into the water separately xD
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Although it is a canned effect, Il-2 treats crashes into water as full explosions. If you look at kamikaze combat footage, you can easily tell which airplanes that fall into water have bombs attached by looking at the enormous plume. Sometimes there is even a delay before it appears.
But yes, for normal crashes it is much overdone. I think that there are other odd effects which reduce the overall "scale" of the action and should be tweaked:
The explosion from a burst fuel tank is practically a supernova, or at least an M80 going off inside a model. The rapid fluttering of a heavy airframe going down makes it look like a leaf. Smoke seems to travel at super-sonic speeds when blown by wind. The default camera position of planes on the ground is above, which makes them look like toys on a tabletop. Also, the chase camera is at a variable distance depending on the airplane size, so a Hellcat looks to be as big as a 109 in F2 view. I didn't realize the disparity between the two until I put them side by side in the FMB. |
