new prop visual effect = headache + ugly (and epilepsy trigger issue ?)

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

Yeah.....I remember all those ww1 and ww2 fighter pilots memories, who all warned about avoiding attacks from the sun, because they'll instantly loose the enemy plane in the blurry prop disc and get epilepsy.
All fighter pilots talk about how dangerous it was to attack with the sun in your back.
Dicta Boelke particulary warned about the great danger of attacking from the sun.
RAF made posters with this warnings in ww2.

One does not necessarily negate the other. It was combat, of course they would prefer a bit of prop reflection (if it exists) as long as the situation gave them an advantage.

All i'm saying is, people who fly real aircraft say that it is an issue, it's pronounced enough to be mentioned in their training and it gets worse the lower the RPM is.

If you want we could debate how well done the effect is, but i don't have any first hand experience to compare. There are some more people posting in the thread who fly real aircraft and they say it's overdone, so i'll go with that. They don't say non-existent mind you, they say it's overdone because in reality you can focus beyond the prop. In other words, you can ignore an existing effect in a real aircraft, but it's difficult to do so in a simulator due to the limitations of our displays.

What is clear to me from people who do have flying experience is that there is such an effect and i'm not going to argue lightly against the opinion of someone who has a few hundred hours on props versus, well, zero of mine.

Maybe it needs to be toned down, or maybe it should just be better represented. For example, taking the colour of the blades into account along with the ambient light conditions, RPM, etc, but i don't know how feasible this is in terms of processing power required.

However, i'm not going to simply jump on the wagon and demand a completely invisible prop just because it spoils my aim a bit. If it spoiled the aim of real pilots i want it to spoil mine too. And since i don't like forcing my preferred way to fly the sim on others, maybe making it a realism option would be good. Cheers