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

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by EJGr.Ost_Caspar

That would require, that every player has every skin of that mission on his HD before the mission starts. Its not a very practical way.

I think its better to care for proper default skins for immersions, so skin download can be kept off. Its also better for traffic issues. If anyone pleases to fly dessert skins above England (what?) ... ehm Normandy, then he can just do so and noone else will notice this.

I agree... I think user defined defaults is best.. that's why I use that skin thingy... I know some were concerned that people would turn all the enemy defaults to pink or something.. but a crappy pilot will get shot down by a better one.. even if he sees it coming... We just allow skin downloads... lest face it... at this point if your rig chokes on skin downloads then you need an upgrade.. a bare bones rig of 2010 will be better than a top of the line rig of 2001, when all this deliciousness started..

[ElAurens]

The problem with default skins is that you need a totally different set for every map in the sim. And that does not take into account different time periods.

Then there is the issue of incorrect, or worse, totally wrong, national markings.

The sim has always had really awful US and Japanese markings, and it still does in stock installations. Even the mods only camoflage them with non reflective textures.

There has to be a way to make skin DL work in this day and age. It's not like we are on a 56K dialup anymore.

[Tempest123]

Probably already been requested but I think a "check six" key would be very useful, just a key that quickly pans to look over your left or right shoulder (maybe 2 keys, one for each side), as it is now it is about 4 or 5 key presses to see behind, and in that time its very easy to get shot down.

[nzwilliam]

Originally Posted by Tempest123

Probably already been requested but I think a "check six" key would be very useful, just a key that quickly pans to look over your left or right shoulder (maybe 2 keys, one for each side), as it is now it is about 4 or 5 key presses to see behind, and in that time its very easy to get shot down.

I'm not at my computer right now so can't confirm but I'm pretty sure theres options for setting a key or button to any of the views available anyway isn't there? Would just need to be set to something, unless you're asking to have a key to lean left or right and look behind?

[Erkki]

If you cant afford a head tracking device, you might want to use Snap views instead of pan.

Also you can, in the conf, speed up the pilot's head turning speed.

[Tempest123]

Originally Posted by Erkki

If you cant afford a head tracking device, you might want to use Snap views instead of pan.

Also you can, in the conf, speed up the pilot's head turning speed.

O really? I'll have to check that out, thanks. Yes snap view unfortunately does not go all the way back to your six, just about 90 degrees off your shoulder

[Erkki]

Ahh. Try pressing Page Down when trying to look over your shoulder with snap views.

[katdogfizzow]

Originally Posted by Tempest123

Probably already been requested but I think a "check six" key would be very useful, just a key that quickly pans to look over your left or right shoulder (maybe 2 keys, one for each side), as it is now it is about 4 or 5 key presses to see behind, and in that time its very easy to get shot down.

Dude, buy trackIR by now....sell a kidney if you have to. Seriously.

[Tempest123]

It's that good? Never tried it

[_RAAF_Smouch]

I own TrackIR and honestly can't fly 1946 without it.

A simple turn of the head and you can look wherever you need to....

check out: http://naturalpoint.com/trackir/

Also look for any vids on youtube