Dot Visibility in COD and Other Flight ims.

[furbs]

ROF now doesnt have dots, i think the view distance is up to 12km and works perfect.

[Ze-Jamz]

Can I also ask..

Is it just me or do you loose the dots momentarily once they go under the horizon and your above it? very hard to see untill they either go lower or come back up through the haze which is the horizon..

Is this realistic?

OT..Im always losing contacts against the terrain..even with TrackIR5 but my resolution is 1920x1200 which prob doesnt help...as far as view distance i think its odd that the dots are larger in size with normal FOV but are smaller once you zoom in

[GF_Mastiff]

Well I have a 28 inch monitor @ 1900x1200 60hrz
I use the fov setings in the game on pov hat 180 is
90, 270 is 70, and 0 is 30. You can still use track ir and still
have 6dof and z axsis.

[drewpee]

I personally find it near impossible to spot AC flying low when I'm high(far up not stoned). When hunting I swoop low with speed to check for dots above the horizon, then zoom and gain height. It's not the best way to hunt as you leave your self open in the zoom.

[VO101_Tom]

You talk about the resolution in most. But the other important thing the Anti Aliasing. So nicely smooths into the background the planes (already in IL-2 too), that it something incredible.

[timholt]

Originally Posted by furbs

ROF now doesnt have dots, i think the view distance is up to 12km and works perfect.

I agree, I can usually pick an a/c shape and therefore id it not long after first sighting it (as an a/c not a dot)

[Seeker]

I think spotting planes, especially lower planes, is much, much harder in Clod than it was in '46.

Completely artificially so, for both sides, over both land and water textures, so it's not a camouflage thing.

It's just another example of the "harder is more real" mentality which seems to have bedevilled the game design.

[6S.Manu]

This is the problem that bores me the most in flight sims.

Why should the planes disappear 1km below my plane but still be visible as black dots 4km over me?

There are stories of pilots who saw planes only because of the sun reflection on the their canopy (luck) and in no way a plane can disappear on the forest when you are 400m behind it.

I fly with No Icon because of my squad, but I'm sure that is not the most realistic way... one week ago i turned down my IL2's resolution to 1280*720 because losing dots it the most frustrating thing (above all flying in old IL2's planes against the newest ones).

I think a sim should use Icon (very small) and should simulate what the pilot see and what he does not: clouds, sun... the dots/icon should totally disappear in that case.

Build a Toggle Icon key and I'm ok with that.

[robtek]

I think the last 2 posters have illusions on plane visibility in real life.

From experience i can tell that i spent a few minutes searching for a white plane together with me in the landing pattern.

That means i knew roughly where it should be and in which direction to look.

[ElAurens]

Camoflage was applied for a reason after all.

I do agree that spotting them above you, under certain circumstances, is perhaps too easy though. We do need to remember that trained military pilots at the ages that they were then were in the prime of their youth and physical capabilities, hence the accounts of pilots spotting aircraft at what seem to some of us outlandish distances.

Even with my 57 year old eyes, spotting aircraft above me in the real world while standing on terra firma is not a difficult task, if the weather cooperates. It is actually much harder on a clear, sunny day.