Bomb craters

[Doc_uk]

Have we always had them, or have i not been paying attention to the detail of this game lol

Hmm looks like a new texture mate

its not too good either.
look to see the bug. this is a plane crash crater.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/55...6F7B6A3B732C9/

[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

Yeah,must be a new thing,I only noticed this today,after I returned to where I had shot down a Stuka.

Flippi'n great hole in my airfield,if you please........bloody cheek!!,you'd think they'd go and die in some other place,other than in an operational airfield,lol.

[White Owl]

They show up ingame but not in the recorded tracks, for whatever reason. Caught me by surprise when I landed and nearly taxied into one!

surely its not deforming the terrain ? just a texture isnt it.

[Strike]

I do wish that they'd do with the airplane ground impact effect as they did with the water splash.. When a plane goes into the water, the effect will shoot in the direction the plane was travelling, and at the height equivalent to angle of impact. (I.E if a plane shallow dives the water will spray forwards, but if the plane impacts vertically it will splash straight upwards like in old IL-2)

Now I wish they'd do the same for the ground effect. If the plane explodes on a shallow angle, the fire from fuelspray should go in the direction the plane was traveling creating a "napalmstrike" effect. Right now the explosion and smoke goes up like a miniature nuke :p which is okay, if the plane went vertically into the ground. The crater texture would also in theory vary between a hole (like now) or a long skid-crater type thing in the direction of the crash. Makes it all the more authentic

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Ali Fish

surely its not deforming the terrain ? just a texture isnt it.

Just textures. Iirc they worked on 3D craters but they where very damanding on the system and caused all kind of problems like half a crater going under a building and so on.

Could be remembering it wrong though.