i didnt realise the relections were taken away, its a tough one design wise, where as the lovely p51 was rolled out the factory in shinney metal form, and adapted from there for combat. Red tails/ tuskegee airmen kept most of the metalic effects present, im sure most planes came in that form to some degree, but the idea was to mute all the object effects down for visual purposes. so to not have them does make sense in terms of performance in a sim that simply cant perform very well.
i remeber when i looked at the files in p51 and noticed how they do there special effects and i instantly noticed and thought wow its all here but they are not being used. nobody is using it !!! so then the metallics came about. but its a strange situation too. im posting outrageus images compared to others and im feeling that they all i think im photoshoping them etc. one aspect that is quite phenominal is my owning a Gforce 670 card. thats where the power for these images is coming from, but its still ingame un edited.
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