Friday 2010-09-03 Dev. update and Discussions

[Jimko]

Originally Posted by luthier

I just want to say that you guys are INSANE.

“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” ~ Oscar Wilde

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

“Insanity is my only means of relaxation” ~ Author Unknown

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

There are two types of windows: "real" glass ones and painted. Please see the hangar in picture #2: the big transparent windows of the main hall "could" burst, in technical matters. The lower side buildings only have painted widows wich couldn't burst.

I meant the real windows not the painted ones for sure.

[Kyrios]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

[...] where one can see the smoke swirling when the planes/helicopters fly through. I know there is a word for this, which I think begins with a 'V', but my memory fails me at this point

Is that word you're looking for "vortex"? As in this vid from 1:25?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA2FU...eature=related

It sure would look really good

[Bloblast]

Originally Posted by luthier

I just want to say that you guys are INSANE.

Insane?

[Alien]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

well... how can you say it would be more realistic? that looks more hollywood tbh.

i'm guessing to get blood splatter like that you'd be talking either arterial spray or explosive shells removing both tissue and clothing. don't forget pilots wore a lot of clothing and, at least in bob, were usually subject to death by rifle calibre bullets. combine these two factors and bleeding out would be limited to soaking pilot suits, not decorating the inside of the plane like someone has been overly enthusiastic with the ketchup bottle. unless you it's a very specific bullet strike area then there wouldn't be large amounts of blood splatter. and certainly not in such patterns as you've added.

Sorry I'm a bit late, but this effect would be pretty realistic in RAF's planes which were shot by cannons, or bombers attacked by 19th squadron. Or flak, of course

[philip.ed]

Yes, Vortex is the word I was looking for

Annoyingly, I can't find the videos on youtube that I wanted to post. But a youtube search of Vortex (or smoke vortex, aircraft vortex etc ) will show the effect quite well too

[Insuber]

Boblast, nice one ... LOL!

[Fergal69]

This reminds me of my childhood......

Me: I want, I want, I want
Parents: You'll have to wait & see what Father Christmas bring you.

Unfortunately, they didn't say which Christmas......

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by Hecke

I meant the real windows not the painted ones for sure.

I think that's what the real windows have been made for

[Tempest123]

Dunno if it has been mentioned before but many of the photos show ground personnel or pilots sitting in aircraft without parachutes on (as they where used as a seat cushion), so they are a lot lower in the cockpit than a pilot suited up to fly the aircraft. When you sit in the metal bucket designed for the parachute you're gonna sit pretty low.