Friday 2010-08-20 Dev. update and Discussions

[Jumo211]

Very nice update
Thank you

about smokes , spending many hours , days , weeks over the past many years going through WWII archival footage inluding Luce after watching it for so long you will get the same conclusion , smoking plane like in the screenshot is rather rare to see out of all shot down planes in archival footage some of them pretty badly damaged including B-17's .
Ratio is more like 1 plane may get such smoke out of every 30 that were shot down as the rest will show light colors smokes , gray , whitish very and I mean very transparent smokes and many of them on fire have little visible or not at all smoke coming out of the plane .
I understand that much less smokes looks less dramatic but that's just the fact .
Tons of WWII air combat archival footage is availbale , youtube is not exactly the place to reach conclusion about shot down aircrafts .
Period .
It's WIP but it is reminding me IL-2 where you can have 10 , 20 or 30 aircrafts in the air all smoking like a factory chimneys all over the skies .
To prevent that from happening damage smokes would have to be coded with a lot of randomness and black thick huge smoke being rather rare .