4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[gauderio]

Please make these changes to pollute less the game screen

ORIGINAL GAME SCREEN



NEW GAME SCREEN

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by gauderio

Please make these changes to pollute less the game screen

Moving the HUD messages so they don't "cover the sky" and interfere with spatial awareness would be a good idea. Either they could be moved to the lower right hand corner like in the drawing above, or they could be made to disappear when the pilot's view isn't focused straight ahead (realistic, since the pilot can't see his controls when he's looking to his right or left).

[Derda508]

That´s a really good idea!

[pencon]

What I think would be really cool is actual people manning the guns on the ground , and being able to strafe the crap out of them as they shoot back at me .And destructible environments - buildings etc I know that will probably never happen though sigh .....

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by pencon

What I think would be really cool is actual people manning the guns on the ground , and being able to strafe the crap out of them as they shoot back at me .And destructible environments - buildings etc I know that will probably never happen though sigh .....

There is a stationary M2 .50cal (both AA and field mount) and MG 42 available for ground mounted machine guns. They do shoot at aircraft if they come into their field of view.

Buildings are already destructible although its a fairly simple setup. Destructible environments such as geometry changes to the ground is probably not possible given the current game engine. It was programmed in the late 1990s remember.

[rollnloop]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Moving the HUD messages so they don't "cover the sky" and interfere with spatial awareness would be a good idea. Either they could be moved to the lower right hand corner like in the drawing above, or they could be made to disappear when the pilot's view isn't focused straight ahead (realistic, since the pilot can't see his controls when he's looking to his right or left).

Another simple idea would be a toggle key, so when you want to check your HUD (because a special control doesn't move in 3D cockpit, like radiator position in most older ones) you can, and when you don't want text you can get rid of it.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by rollnloop

Another simple idea would be a toggle key, so when you want to check your HUD (because a special control doesn't move in 3D cockpit, like radiator position in most older ones) you can, and when you don't want text you can get rid of it.

That would be much more convenient than permanently disabling HUD messages in the conf.ini.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

That would be much more convenient than permanently disabling HUD messages in the conf.ini.

Good idea! IL-2 BoS has the exact same feature... tap a button and the HUD and all elements associated with it are hidden from rendering including speed bar, map elements, icons, etc. It all goes away so you can take screen shots or just fly without any extra aids. Press a button and it comes back.

[ElAurens]

Great idea.

[Bearcat]

Bear in mind that you can also customize your HUD messages.. There are certain HUD messages I have totally removed .. I can look out the window to see f my lights are on.. and look at my flapos lever to see where they are.. My radiator is now on a slider so I don't need that info on the HUD either.. Other info can be edited so that say .. instead of Power: 90% it could just read P: 90% ... this is doable now if you have a modded install. It isn't quite what is being discussed here but it can unclutter the hud quite a bit. If you want to remove an entry altogether.. like say the Engine On message (prop spinning .. engine on duhh.. ) just remover the text altogether on the right. This way you can customize it to however you want to. Save the file and back it up somewhere and you are good as gold.