Friday 2010-09-03 Dev. update and Discussions

[Romanator21]

Here's my contribution:

I hope you notice that he's wearing an OVER-SIZED CRASH-HELMET. I'ts not a SKULL CAP!!!!! @#$^@#B.

Are you all that thick!?!?!?!


Those helmets really are that big!!!!! Look it even makes a normal man's head 2x as BIG!!!!!!!





Earth to Dipsh*t:





1) You can't do a top to bottom measurement because the viewing angle is different, changing how high he appears to sit in the cockpit, and thus relationship to canopy frames. You can only make horizontal measurements, or compare to the outside of the plane. You're also using the guy's headset as the top of his head. IT IS NOT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD. I have a set of David Clark Headsets, and they add 2 inches to the top of my head!

2) Canopy in the screenshot is open all the way, while in the first, is open only part way. USE YOUR EYES.

I've had it with this, I'm done!

Goodbye!

[ElAurens]

There are lots of people in the world that are not happy unless they are complaining about something.

Unfortunately, most of them seem to congregate in flight sim forums.

These are the same folks that will tell a pilot who has actually flown a WW2 aircraft that their impressions and observations of the real thing are wrong. (I've seen that happen at an airshow once).

[philip.ed]

Bone-Domes were not used in the BoB! The flying helmet does not make ones head look that big; although the b-type flying helmet does make one look like they have big ears!

[BG-09]

If we look at historical picture of a man in to the Hurricane cockpit, while the aircraft is on the ground, and he seems small, thats because this person is NOT wearing parachute! When the pilot is siting over parachute he seems higher!!!

Originally Posted by Romanator21

...and a comparison showing midget pilot and ground crew:

This is illusion - in flight the pilots look higher because they sit up on their parachute!!!

Oleg, please make some bigger parachutes...and may be some bigger pilots...

Cheers!

[Jimko]

Originally Posted by zauii

There is obviously reasons as to why the pilots view isn't as high in the game, Jesus you'd seriously wanna be sitting like that ? Even if its a simulator its yet a game , some things you're just gonna have to live with. How about IL2? Worked just fine as it is.. I don't see any benefit with sitting like that but ok... better view of ground and less view of the crosshair huh.?

Are you seriously telling me that you think that YOUR view of the gunsight (and MINE) are going to change because of the positon of the virtual pilot figure in the cockpit?

What on earth does one have to do with the other?

The view that you see when looking out of the cockpit is determined by the sim configuration parameters as far as I know, not by what the virtual pilot's head position is.

And if I'm wrong, then someone please correct me! (politely!)

[McHilt]

Originally Posted by Romanator21

Here's a "reminder" of a long forgotten update:



and a comparison showing midget pilot and ground crew:

I like this picture... (isn't that one straight from the naval-history and heritage site (iirc?), there's a whole bunch of those pictures with captions there depicting US carriers and destroyers... ok, that's OT but I was just curious )

yep, hurri pilot seems a bit too small...

[philip.ed]

Can we stop the talk on the pilot size now...? I think that Oleg and Luthier have got the point, and clearly will choose to change it if they really want.
Their lack of invoice on this hopefully means that they're hard at work, but I presume their not interested in delving into this discussion further.

If Oleg's hopes for October are still on the table, then they must be working really hard now to get the game out soon.

[McHilt]

Philip.Ed: I totally agree...
Let's quit the pilotsize issue

Goodnight gentlemen!

[Baron]

What most people "complaining" about pilot size fail to relize is:

1# That Oleg and team have a accuratly moddeld Hurri ( down to an inch) where they place a pilot in the seat (wich is at the exact same spot as the real thing) whos 175 cm tall, and thats where thee pilot ends up, period.

2# As far as i know adjusteble seat isnt modelled (at least not visually) wich would explain why he is sitting so low even when on the ground.


There has been a number of pics posted showing hurris on takeoff and in flight and it clearly shows that a pilot taking off is sitting way higher than he is during flight....i wonder why, hmmmm.


Now, move along, nothing more to see here..before Oleg shuts this site down completly.