Weather Tests - Not for the middle or low end PC

[louisv]

Originally Posted by Sutts

I didn't think merlins had carb heat - have you tried this in a Spit or Hurri?

If there is a carburator, there is carburator heat. The heat comes from the engine. Without it, the engine chokes in the clouds.

Try it (bind it first)

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by louisv

If there is a carburator, there is carburator heat. The heat comes from the engine. Without it, the engine chokes in the clouds.

Try it (bind it first)

Sorry but there is no mention of carb heat in the Spit manuals I have. Not all carbs were fitted with a heat facility.

Where carb heat is an option, the manual usually refers to it in the startup procedure.

I don't believe carb icing was that much of a problem in reality as it would have been fitted to all front line fighters. Certainly under some conditions you'd experience icing but flying into cloud doesn't always = engine cutout.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Most important would be dew point vs ambient temperature. The closer they are the bigger risk of icing.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Thanks for sharing this Wolf!

I never bothered working out the weather in FMB owing to the known issues, so it was really nice to see how it looks and works.

My frame rate naturally dropped hugely, but your missions gave a really good impression of what we can expect in the future.

Possibly even the very near future, who knows?!

Thanks again.

[Flanker35M]

S!

I tried with the radius of the clouds. Well except the evitable FPS hit nothing else changed. They do not show outside your hardcoded "detail range" in game. This might be one reason other flight sims/games have the haze so pronounced at horizon, to hide the limits in a meaningful way. Just my thoughts..

[hc_wolf]

Hi guys, I am glad you all have had a look and see what is to be the tip of what is possible.

I have been out drinking "Work meetings" for the past couple of nights and did these missions in just a couple of minutes. I have the evening at home to myself tonight.

So before I get on ATAG server tonight, I will put in a variaty of missions with the other cloud types and post some pics and maybe a video "If I figure out how to record and post utube videos"

Stay tuned for 7pm Melbourne Australia time

************************updated with pics and new mission weather types on first page 7.26pm 23.02.2012************

[BigC208]

When I get back home this weekend I'll give these missions a try. A few months ago I tried some realistic weather and I ended up with a framerate in the low teens. Was not impressed with the looks of it either. I was hoping for flying around towering cumulonimbus. It was more like a thick cottonball stratus layer from a thoudsand feet to 5000 feet. I liked the second video weather. If they can get that kind of cloud coverage with good framerates after the next patch I'll be a happy camper.

[hc_wolf]

updated with pics and new mission weather types on first page

[JG52Krupi]

Thanks for the pics wolf, I can't wait for this to work.

Hopefully the next patch will make it useable on the ATAG server