4.11 General debugging

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Luno13

That probably a mistake in the alpha-channel. There should be a hole there with a black ring of burnt metal or fabric, like the rudder.

That damage texture problem has been there for years. I assumed that it was meant to be that way. A lot of the older planes have really ugly damage textures.

The original skin artists went crazy with the black airbrush tool in Photoshop, so rather than getting realistic "chewed up aluminum" damage textures, damaged planes look like they've been attacked by killer fungus.

And I'd disagree that the Bf-109 has great damage modeling. Sure, on the E series the engine cowl gets knocked askew and you can see the engine, but the perfectly circular "sooty craters" in the wings are neither realistic nor attractive. (Note: I once found a Russian picture of tests of cannon shells against the Bf-109 wing, which is obviously where the original artist got the idea. The only problem is that the tests had the cannon firing at wings turned perpendicular to the cannon shot! So of course the resulting explosion looked nice and round. Entry from a less acute angle would give irregular-shaped entry and exit holes.)