4.12 development update discussion and feedback

[ElAurens]

Thank you so much for the Hawk 75s.

You know how I feel about my Curtiss Hawks...


So, I have to ask, how does she fly? I know about it's "on paper" performance, but there is more to how any aircraft flies than it's ROC and VNE numbers. It should have a fairly high roll rate, but, pilots in the day that transitioned from the P 36 to the P 40 considered the P 36 to be superior except in top speed. It will be interesting to see how it works out.



P 36s at the Cleveland National Air Races, 1939.

[Treetop64]

Just reading about some of the news regarding further tweaks of the AI (shared kills, etc.) and it's great. While reading about the shared kills I was wondering if it is possible to stop the AI from continuing to vigorously attack enemy aircraft that are already quite obviously in fatal distress (very heavily shot up and smoking badly, on fire, etc. but the crew not having actually bailed out). This can be quite annoying in that the AI tends to waste time and ammo pouncing all over an aircraft that is all but obliterated, while there are other enemy aircraft around that are in relatively good health that should be attended to.

As usual, thanks a gobgajillion for all the work you've into IL-2!

[SPITACE]

hi all can team daidalos use the SAS 109 cockpit mods and put them into the 4.12 update? they look very good if not why not? i am sure SAS web site and daidalos can work together on this.

[_1SMV_Gitano]

Originally Posted by SPITACE

hi all can team daidalos use the SAS 109 cockpit mods and put them into the 4.12 update? they look very good if not why not? i am sure SAS web site and daidalos can work together on this.

From memory texture size limit is around 8 Mb and if I recall correctly those cockpits are 100 Mb each. Definitely too much. Moreover, 3D model may be not compliant to IL-2 official specifications...

[stugumby]

Just curious as i noticed on the read me the bit about the changed .50 cal belting. it mentions a He round, when did the m-2 ever have a explosive round? Im tracking AP (armor piercing) API (armor piercing incindiary) APIT(armor piercing incindiary tracer) and Ball. Just puzzled not strating to inflame another kills tigers display.

[JtD]

It never had in real life, it always had in game. Now it doesn't any more, but uses an API instead.

[310thDiablo]

Originally Posted by stugumby

Just curious as i noticed on the read me the bit about the changed .50 cal belting. it mentions a He round, when did the m-2 ever have a explosive round? Im tracking AP (armor piercing) API (armor piercing incindiary) APIT(armor piercing incindiary tracer) and Ball. Just puzzled not strating to inflame another kills tigers display.

I have links to info on teh jug having a constant speed prop and that teh 50 cal. used a loadout of 4 api and 1 apit round in it's belt but for some reason i cannot copy and paste to here.

Please look into this for 4.12.

[ElAurens]

The HE round has been in the game since the beginning, and it's one of the reasons the .50 BMG has been less effective than it was historically. It was deleted in 4.11.1

The new belting is far better.

The in game P 47 has always had a constant speed prop, all US aircraft have them.

[Treetop64]

Originally Posted by _1SMV_Gitano

From memory texture size limit is around 8 Mb and if I recall correctly those cockpits are 100 Mb each. Definitely too much. Moreover, 3D model may be not compliant to IL-2 official specifications...

Always suspected a hard limit set on on 3d modelling and texture size, and that's fine as long as we get consistent texture quality across a wide range of surfaces. And it doesn't have to be inefficient to look good. Just look a the cockpits of the I-185, Fw-190, Do-335, Tempest, Gladiator, etc. The I-185 pit in particular makes very clever use of textured 2D surfaces to depict what would otherwise be 3D objects. If only every plane in the game had that level of quality for it's cockpit...

Speaking of the I-185, it needs a key or button command to enable zooming in on the sights like all other panes in the sim. Though, on second thought, that might screw up the viewing angle of the "2D 3D objects" mentioned earlier. Hope not.

[ArcticWolf]

TY TD Can't wait for 4.12

Keep up the excellent work EH