External views and cameras!
Hi Oleg,
Each day i get more impressed with the detail of the ground object. And i thinks its great because it will improve a lot the feeling of fighting on a real world, even if lots of those details will not be visible while we are flying.
Seeing those ground object bring me some questions i would like to ask:
1) Back in the beginning of IL-2, there was a very dicussed issue (among others) about externals views. About if it was possible to have limited externals view to allow player see some of the action without being able to "cheat" by giving away information to other players.
Will we be able to have limited external views like for example, from inside of cockpits of players of the same side?
2) Another thing i think it would be cool, it's the implementation of friendly and enemy cameras. I mean the mission builder can put cameras assigned to each side, and on the mission the views from those cameras can only be selected for players of that side. Hope i'm clear.
That way, we could put cameras on airfield, and players that had been shot down can do the work of observers on the airfields, since this would not be unrealistic since airfields have people and radio equipment to alert friendly aircraft if they are attacked, or saw enemy aircraft pass near by.
3) Along with chameras and externals views issue, it would be nice if we can assign a camera to a moving ground unit, or even a convoy. That way, you can be an observer from the point of view of a tank, truck, ship, or any other vehicle or ground objetc. And if that object its destroyed, bye bye to the camera and observation point.
In case the camera is assigned to a convoy, instead of a single ground unit, you can swith the point of view between the diferent units of the convoy. And with any unit of the convoy being destroyed, its anothe camera "position" you ca'nt use.
I beleive this would be great to observe the ground action given the excellent details of the ground units that you are showing us.
4) Point 2 remind me, Will we have AI radio calls from airfields under attack, either in offline as online missions?. That's something i wish we had on actual IL-2.
Have to go now.
Take care!
Last edited by Lancelot; 10-05-2008 at 03:02 AM.
Reason: Missespealing and adding another question.
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