Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY on IL2 Authorized Addons

[ramstein]

Originally Posted by Insuber

It looks that the errors in the explosive power of different bombs are not an issue here. Nevertheless they should be easy to identify and correct. For instance, recently someone who poke into the code said that the Russian bombs have twice the damage radius of other countries' ones.
My experience is that a Japanese 250 kg bomb falling few metres from a tank doesn't destroy it. I cannot believe it.
DT what is your opinion on that?

Regards'
insuber

that's right with lots of weapons, if you don't have a direct hit, they will not even scratch the paint..

also with bombs on submereged submarines, even a direct hit does little..

[jermin]

Please let us concentrate on how to improve the quality of original IL2. Most of my squadmates prefer an official enhancement pack over a user-made MOD pack. The fact is that there are still quite a few players playing unmodded IL2 on Hyperlobby. If TD clears all the old bugs and injects new features into the game, I will be more than thankful. Once can still get quite a lot fun from current version.

One of my many requests to TD is please fix the high altitude (over 8000m) performance of German planes. Most of them can not execute a level flight without using elevator trims. And the engines of late-war 109s tend to overheat very quickily at that height even with MW-50 disengaged.

[XB-49]

I have heard from someone over at another site that Team Daidalos have taken over construction of the 777 Studios TBD-1 Devastator. May I ask if this is true?

Thanks in advance,
XB-49

[mkubani]

Look here:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...t=8815&page=67

[XB-49]

Originally Posted by mkubani

Look here:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...t=8815&page=67

Thank you Mkubani. Its too bad that the TBD will be and AI only craft. Ah well, its looks like we will have to wait for Ranwers (over at AAA) to make us one.

XB-49

[Eldur]

Just one more thing came to my mind concerning CEM: The turbo supercharger lever. I anxiously awaited the not so easy to control turbo supercharger control right before FB came out with the CEM and P-47 announced and was kind of disappointed that this had not been modelled back then. The P-38 would have the same control. I've seen that in a real P-47 training film (no. 107-c - how to fly the P-47, high altitude flight and aerobatics) that I found on the net around that time (p47highfly.avi, can't find a link anymore). Basically it's needed to control the exhaust waste gates (and therefore the amount of exhaust that drives the supercharger) while climbing and then reducing the manifold pressure to keep the supercharger impeller below 18250rpm.

Originally Posted by lep1981

Something that REALLY bothers me from IL2 is the score system. ...

Oh yes... that one needs a complete overhaul. I just would say it is a real issue because many people are "score driven". Getting a proper scoring for my efforts gives me a good motivation. And the worst killers are things like "only 10% score because you have no fuel left or your engine ran dead" while I still managed to bring the plane back in one piece with a nice landing. You can get the most score now by just bailing out. It would be cool to get score for returning a badly damaged plane back to the base alone.
I had proposed quite some stuff ages ago in the ORR. Too bad the Ubi forum staff deleted it so I can't dig it out anymore. One thing was that the weapon usage should be taken into account for scoring as well as effective hits with these. WarBirds had this and even the good old Dynamix series (Aces and Red Baron) had a score system based not just on kills, but also on gunnery and bombing skill. And some kind of "kill sharing" across those who shot at the target, split up considering how critical the damage they did each. So if pilot A shoots up B's controls and then C comes and severs B's wing off, A should still get some score for doing that critical damage instead of giving C all the score. That would also get us rid of those "that kill stealer just sprayed some ShKAS at the burning wingless wreck just to get the kill"-situations. I think everybody hates getting his kill stealed. Should also be considered while revamping the AI. They like to steal kills, too.

[mkubani]

@Zorin, here are the specs:

LOD_0 polycount:

1. Smaller bombs/rockets (below 200kg) - up to 200 triangles.
2. Medium bombs/rockets (between 200 and 1000kg) - up to 300 triangles
3. Larger bombs (1000kg and larger), torpedoes, guided bombs, etc. - up to 500 triangles.
4. Racks/pylons – as simple as possible – 50 triangles

Other LODs polycount:

Each subsequent LOD should have less, or equal to 50% of the previous LOD polycount.

4 distance LODs (LOD_0,1,2,3), 3 shadow LODs, each shadow LOD based on normal LOD with previous number (i.e. shadow LOD_0 is based on normal LOD_1, shadow LOD_1 is based on normal LOD_2 and so on).

Use alpha-channels to save polygons by cutting openings and complex shaped parts (like windmills, propellers, etc.) out of simple flat 3D objects.

It is enough to use 12-sided cylinder for virtually any bomb, or torpedo model. Keep polygon count as smaller, as possible, making small parts with either alpha, or texture. Keep smoothing groups set correctly.

Texture sizes for LOD_0: 128x256, 256x256, or 256x512. It is preferable to use same texture for several different bombs. Texture reduction by 50% for other LODS -> e.g. 256x256 -> 128x128 -> 64x64 -> 32x32. Tip: Use a bit of sharpening effect after you resize the textures for smoother texture transition (no sharp to blurry effect).

Use 1-sided material for most parts and 2-sided material for any part with alpha-channel. No alpha-channel textures after LOD_1

[Eldur]

Originally Posted by Eldur

I've seen that in a real P-47 training film (no. 107-c - how to fly the P-47, high altitude flight and aerobatics) that I found on the net around that time (p47highfly.avi, can't find a link anymore).

Found part 107-b (stream): http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/P-47.html