4.12.2 de-bugging

[sniperton]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Simply removing the frame render would be a solution from inside the cockpit.

It's not that simple, I'm afraid. Refraction works here like a sort of periscope: looking through a thick glass, the pilot sees on its lower surface what he would see through its upper surface if his eye level was a few centimeters higher. The pilot can see the engine cowling slightly from above even when his eye level is slightly below that. Simply removing the frame render would be only a partial solution as it wouldn't restore realistic forward visibility (the 'periscope effect'). No offense, just some thoughts.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by sniperton

It's not that simple, I'm afraid. Refraction works here like a sort of periscope: looking through a thick glass, the pilot sees on its lower surface what he would see through its upper surface if his eye level was a few centimeters higher. The pilot can see the engine cowling slightly from above even when his eye level is slightly below that. Simply removing the frame render would be only a partial solution as it wouldn't restore realistic forward visibility (the 'periscope effect'). No offense, just some thoughts.

The bottom of the armoured glass is below the engine cowling so removing the frame and transposing the forward view above the cowling fixes the problem.

[sniperton]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'transposing the forward view above the cowling'. If you raise the camera/head position, it will affect side and rear view as well.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

The bottom of the armoured glass is below the engine cowling so removing the frame and transposing the forward view above the cowling fixes the problem.

Thanks for that picture. In addition to showing exactly how the armor glass is faired into the canopy and how the pilot's sight line shouldn't include the "bar," it also demonstrates how there was no gap between the armor glass and the forward armor plate for many fighters.

In my experiments so far with the Arcade view and taking on bombers from the rear, I've noticed that there's often a gap between the armor glass and the forward firewall which lets the occasional bullet through when fired from 12 o'clock high, with disastrous results for the pilot. While that's realistic for some planes, for others, it's bad damage modeling.

[Janosch]

Wait! Don't release the patch just yet! This just in:

The gunsights in Ki-43-II and Ki-43-II-Kai behave differently than other similiar gunsights. When you move/tilt pilot head up, the yellow reticle is drawn on the top edge of the gunsight. Probably left and right edges too. In planes like Ki-61, Zero, Ki-45 (well, the lower sights at least) and Ki-84, it isn't! Ki-84 has a peculiar area for the reticle to be visible, move head left and right and you'll see. Could there be an oversight in the Ki-43 sights?

[cacha]

It looks like the IL-10 AI can't use PTAB 2.5 bombs. They keep circling the target but never drop the bombs or try to use their guns. This happens on quick mission and on the Sturmoviks over Manchuria campaign.

[shelby]

missing markings


there are difference in the canopy of p40b p40c and tomahawks



missing navigation lights markings in lagg3 series skin


trees on the road in bougainville solomons 1943

[Pfeil]

Originally Posted by shelby

trees on the road in bougainville solomons 1943

Is this a bug? In the quick mission on the Solomons with the target set to armor(on Stirling island), most of the armor drives on a road entirely overgrown with trees. I just figured it was supposed to be a road through the forest/jungle.