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Old 12-12-2010, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by heywooood View Post
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You're perhaps right about the smoke (I watched the video again), but as for the second part I am referring to the lighting effect of the exhaust flames in flight in the second video and not the ambient lighting effect of a stack fire at engine startup. I find the mod effects videos a bit gimmicky in that they presumably depict a stack fire on every startup, but they're still a bit more convincing than the SoW videos so far in terms of the smoke and the exhaust flames, not that we're really sure what mixture/RPM settings are depicted in the second SoW video, which of course makes all the difference.. Not that it matters about the eyecandy IMO as long as the engine simulation in SoW is better. Still, I'd love it if Oleg & Co. took a good look at the Seafire video above and the various others posted and did their best to replicate the differences in the various engine settings/engine temperatures' effects in the sim, although not necessarily now. I'm not gonna call myself a "smoke and flame specialist", but I'd say that it's pretty much essential that at least some kind of effect exists around exhaust flames for night-fighting to be playable in the sim, which is something that I'm really interested in. Of course, anything like that could wait until we have some kind of reason to have realistic effects in this department, i.e. more appropriate flyables for night-fighting, like hopefully the Beaufighter at some point? Although the second video's cool, I think it would make it a bit too easy to spot aircraft at night compared to how difficult it's been described to be in reality.

Last edited by TheGrunch; 12-12-2010 at 11:03 AM.