Friday Update, February 17, 2012

I'm sure the devs have long since stopped reading this thread, but what are the drivable vehicles going to add to the game? Are you planning on adding other multi-player modes besides "dogfight"? Are you planning on some manner of Battlefield 1942 style play? If this will be usable in online play, will someone driving a tank or a truck count towards the number of people able to fly aircraft? Assuming a game is limited to 64 people online. If one person is on a tank, does that mean that there can now only be 63 people flying online?

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by airmalik

Excellent update B6.



Can anyone decipher this into layman terms? Is this referring to modeling of slips?

It regards the physical model of the wing and of the air flow around it. It means that CloD adopts a calculated flight model, as opposed to the parametric one. In the more sophisticated physical models the lift/drag is calculated for a number of wing portions, or slices, whereas in the simpler ones the calculation is done on the entire wing.

IIRC, CFS and FS used a parametric FM, or a variant of it, while XPlane adopts a physical model with several "slices" and separated wings.

Cheers,
Ins

To all: Please, stop using again the expression "layman's terms", enough is enougH

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Not bad. Perhaps it will evolve from the movie making software into a functional flight / tank sim.

Thanks for the update.

[Insuber]

Re. the FM, I dug out a question I've asked one year ago, with Luthier answer:

"....
Insuber:
How are the Flight Models done? Parametric, fluidodynamic as in X-Plane, mixed ? Are they different from Il-2 ones, or just an evolution of them?

Luthier:
We did a huge technical interview for a print magazine, where our FM programmer wrote like two pages of stuff on it. I'll see if we can publish it here, because that would be a much, much better answer than anything I can type up...."

I never found the answer, btw.

Cheers,
Ins