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

[Pursuivant]

Another one for the wishlist: Changes in the appearance of aircrew floating on water.

1) It appears that the animation for a floating aircrew/aircrew in a life raft only appears if you're flying for the U.S. or Japan. Teach the British, Germans, Russians, etc. how to swim! Make floating figures/figures in life rafts for other nations.

2) Allow the pilot skin to be retained for the floating/life raft figure.

3) Get rid of the samurai sword on the floating Japanese figure, few Japanese aircrew carried swords! More to the point, it doesn't appear on the stock parachuting figure.

4) Create larger (2 or 5 man) life rafts for heavy bombers, etc. which appear when the plane ditches.

5) Allow certain planes to float for longer periods of time when they ditch. For example, the B17 could float for several minutes. If properly ditched most planes will float for at least a few seconds before sinking - longer than currently modeled.

6) Link crew in life raft/crew in water animations to survival equipment carried onboard the aircraft. That is, if the plane historically didn't carry a raft, you don't appear in a raft when you ditch. If it carried two, then two or more aircrew appear in rafts.

7) Possibility of adding raft/floating figures to FMB. These can be move and be given waypoints to represent swimming or currents.

8 ) Chance of drowning. Currently, you always successfully bail out of a sunken plane, regardless of how far underwater your plane is. If you can't get out of your plane in time, there's a chance of a pilot/crew killed result.

9) The "running man" animation should replace the "floating man"/life raft animation if you ditch in extremely shallow water just off shore. Of course, the bailout animation should have you bailing out so that you run towards land.

[jamesdietz]

All I really want is the new Hs-129 cockpit & the Dornier...really thats it...I promise I'll be happy!

[Buren]

Is the KI-61-TEI variant considered to be included someday in the future? (the Hien/Tony with the cowling cannons)
AFAIK it was the most numerous variant (you are free to prove otherwise), yet there isn't even an AI only model.

[Fafnir_6]

Originally Posted by Buren

Is the KI-61-TEI variant considered to be included someday in the future? (the Hien/Tony with the cowling cannons)
AFAIK it was the most numerous variant (you are free to prove otherwise), yet there isn't even an AI only model.

Get your references together . That way, if someone elects to work on this most worthy subject, they can hit the ground running.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

[Buren]

Most worthy subject, huh?

HERE are some very detailed drawings of the TEI variant (last five pics right side) and two nice articles to add.
Production data of HEI (Mauser equipped) and TEI variants ...

Hope it's enough to get the groundwork started...

[ElAurens]

Being a big fan of the Kawasaki fighters I too would think this is a very worthy addition. Even correcting the flaws in the models we currently have *cough* turning ability *cough* would go a long way in my book.

Billfish has done encyclopedic work on this subject, hopefully she will illuminate us more on the subject.

[bf-110]

http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/...I-Tei-Hien.htm

Don´t forget Ki-45 and 44!

BTW,saw there was a Hien II.

http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/...61-II-Hien.htm

http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/...1-IIb-Hien.htm

http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/...I-KAI-Hien.htm

[KWM_Rammbock]

hi all!

will the 4.10 include corrected flight models, especially for the us and german aircrafts?
(there are good buttons available , especially at SAS and Histomod!)