Friday 2010-06-25 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Tbag]

Ilya, three questions:

1.Will the position of the noseart/numbers/"decals" be hard-coded for each plane or can the positions be altered depending on the skin (like a textfile with "decal" positions for each skin)?

2. It was mentioned ages ago that planes can visually age but also that the performance deteriorates with age of the aircraft. Are those two indepedent variables?

3. Can system failures be triggered by the mission builder?

Cheers

Tbag

[luthier]

Originally Posted by Tbag

Ilya, three questions:

1.Will the position of the noseart/numbers/"decals" be hard-coded for each plane or can the positions be altered depending on the skin (like a textfile with "decal" positions for each skin)?

I could tell you, but we'd rather blow you away with a screenshot once the time is right.

Originally Posted by Tbag

2. It was mentioned ages ago that planes can visually age but also that the performance deteriorates with age of the aircraft. Are those two indepedent variables?

Don't see much reason to separate them, the mission builder is already extremely complex, and I can't even think of a gameplay reason to split up the two parameters. We'd need to add a whole bunch of extra parameters to each plane's properties, because of course a single "performance" slider woudn't do - you'd want to individually set quality levels for all sorts of different things, which is what triggers are for.

Which I believe answers your third question:

Originally Posted by Tbag

3. Can system failures be triggered by the mission builder?

[Meusli]

Is that a black pall of smoke in the background of screenshot 3? Would it be from a bombed target or aircraft?

[Coog]

Originally Posted by Meusli

Is that a black pall of smoke in the background of screenshot 3? Would it be from a bombed target or aircraft?

I had the same question. Looks like maybe that's smoke from a sizeable fire on the ground? Maybe? If so, nice.

[LukeFF]

Looking good!

What version of the He 111 is that in those screenshots?

(KG 51 markings on He 111s during the BoB? Eh, not so ).

[David603]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Looking good!

What version of the He 111 is that in those screenshots?

(KG 51 markings on He 111s during the BoB? Eh, not so ).

Already answered Its like the GB squadron codes on the RAF aircraft.

Originally Posted by luthier

Yeah we're just making sure all sorts of different options work.

[Zorin]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Looking good!

What version of the He 111 is that in those screenshots?

Should be a Heinkel He 111 H-3. The H-3 was the first to have the MG FF in the Bugstand. Though it could also be a H-4, but I would need to see the underside of it to tell. What is actually odd though is the ventral gondola, which only has a gunner station at the rear, which would point to a H-1.

Lets hope Oleg or crew can clear this up.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Zorin

Should be a Heinkel He 111 H-3. The H-3 was the first to have the MG FF in the Bugstand. Though it could also be a H-4, but I would need to see the underside of it to tell. What is actually odd though is the ventral gondola, which only has a gunner station at the rear, which would point to a H-1.

My source on the He 111, Manfred Griehl's book published as part of the Luftwaffe Profile Series by Schiffer, says that initial production H-3s had only one gun in the ventral position and that the later H-3/R-3 added an additional ventral MG 15 or MG 131. So, it could be that what we see in the screenshot is indeed an early production H-3. The question is, when was the R-3 mod authorized?

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Looking good!

What version of the He 111 is that in those screenshots?

(KG 51 markings on He 111s during the BoB? Eh, not so ).

KG 51 was heavily involved in the BoB.

[Zorin]

Originally Posted by KOM.Nausicaa

KG 51 was heavily involved in the BoB.

Only that they didn't operate He111 during BoB.