Agree with you proton45.

Look at the shots of the model then carefully look at that wonderful screenshot. It certainly looks like the fire is coming from the area of the first fuselage fuel tank and the large oxygen bottle there.

Oleg is correct, as he is more often than not.

Nothing else to see here, move along.

..hang on a sec guv


wot 'bout the fire, I says? Ah, I says; that fire right there don' look right. Look at this, says I:

http://www.morethanpoints.com/files/engine_fire.JPG

can ya see the fuselage behind tha flames, I ask? Nah, mate; you can'. Tha' fire in the screenshot looks like a lil' pussy in comparison.

Now, look here says I:

http://fooblog.mexxoft.com/wp-conten...0022-92x92.jpg

Ignore the smoke m'lads; focus on tha' roaring fire. Now, that's wha' I'm talking 'bout.

Lol, that's the smallest linked screen shot ever. :)

The thing with fire though is that it's a very changeable beast. This could be at any point in it's life, it could just be getting going and the best is to come.

Whoops, I says. Perhaps this will help; me thinks.

http://fooblog.mexxoft.com/wp-conten...712_120022.jpg

A good point you have, I may add.

This fire looks awesome!I would even say it´s totally different from the FW-200 one.Maybe the problem was the time the SS was taken.

Oleg has shown different types of fire for different types of fuels. Compare the FW-200, to the Ju-88s, to the Ju-87.

Their are so many reasons why the "fire" in the screen shot can't be logically picked apart...

1) Comparing the ss to a real photo is imposable...if you know anything about light exposure and film you know that range of contrast becomes distorted when shooting into a bright light source.

2) You are picking apart one frame from from a moving/evolving image...How do you know that the one frame they chose to post isn't a low point between flare ups? And for that matter, I have seen real footage of burning aeroplanes where the intensity of the flames did not remain constant.

3) these ss are a WIP...nuff said.

For those, who has no knowledge about WWII aircraft design, but feels himself knowledgeable enough to comment what can and what can not be in those aircraft:

There are a lots of fuel related controls and instruments in the pilot's cockpit, such as fuel cocks, fuel tank selectors, manual fuel pumps, primer pumps, fuel pressure manometers, etc. All this devices are connected to the aircraft fuel system with numerous fuel lines, which go through wings and fuselage to the cockpit. And all those lines are modeled in the collision model in the game. Any of this lines may be damaged and become the source of fuel leak and fire.

How can you be sure that those systems have hit-boxes in the DM? Or are you part of the development team and know something we all don't? :grin:

He's absolutely right about the way it is in real aircraft. Now, as far as the simulator goes i think he's in some way connected to the dev team, if not directly a part of it.

That of course makes me real glad to hear the explanation...if the fuel controls in the cockpit have a DM, then they probably also function just like the real ones :grin: