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Old 12-03-2011, 05:53 PM
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The canon shells exploding look like fireball when they should look like flashes.
The problems with special effects you've described have been solved by a number of special effects mod packs. I'm particularly fond of the the Holy Grail and Potenz effects pack because the developers did a very good job of trying to make the IL2 effects look like actual gun camera footage.

TD has previously vetoed volumetric smoke from aircraft due to performance issues on older computers, but fixes to make cannon and MG hits look better are easy to implement and don't impact frame rates.

Likewise, it's an easy fix to remove the stock "ugly green footballs" debris effect and replace them with better looking graphics. A cool touch would be a sound effect of debris impacting your plane, although realistically if you're wearing headphones and sitting next to one or more aircraft engines you're not going to be hearing anything but your radio and your engines!

Oil splashes on the windscreen from following a leaky aircraft too closely would require more work and more graphics files. Basically, you'd have to add some graphics effects, write code which links to them and applies them under the right circumstances, and then recode every cockpit for every flyable plane in the game!

But, you make a valid point. It opens up the whole issue of "crud on the windshield" ranging from insects to oil, to ice. On the inside of the cockpit, there's the possibility of condensation or ice on the inside of unheated cockpits, blood from wounds (or messily killed crew members) as well as smoke and fire. All realistic bits of "eye candy" which would improve authenticity.

There are mods out there (by Wolfighter) which give very nice oil splash and blood splash effects for some cockpits, but that's due to damage to your plane, not to a nearby plane.
 

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