So, about that little red light...

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by 99th_Flyby

So, can we spot a climbing flight of Hurricanes at 1500 meters distance in IL2?

nope, in il2 right now they are almost impossible to see, this is presuming your monitor is correctly calibrated for color and contrast, that you are using a native resolution on your lcd, and that you have your monitor set to the "correct" FoV setting. but you could however see them in real life in normal weather conditions.

numerous reports from ww2 pilots refer to distances they could spot aircraft at reliably, and il2 has a major problem with this because the 2e and 3e LoD models dont stand out enough against the terrain textures that form the background of the scenery below you.

Originally Posted by 99th_Flyby

How about SoW_BoB?

there is no indication right now that they will correct this in BoB, or that oleg and Co even recognize this is an issue. oleg did indicate more LoD models would be used than the 3 we have currently, so a more gradual progression of sizes and shapes should occur, but the important aspect is that they also need to make the distant LoD models stand out more.

right now you have pretty Lod models modeled with nice paint jobs being seen against pretty background terrain, but it all blends into one 2 dimensional flat visual soup that is very hard to make out any detail in. in real life a moving 3 dimensional object (the plane) would stand out much more when moving against a more distant stationary background terrain.