Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY - For 4.11

[Wolkenbeisser]

Maybe this place is better than the other one (I posted this in the bug reports 4.10m). Sorry for doubleposting. Anyway, here is what I would like to see in 4.11m:

Three very old bugs (older than 4.09m), and maybe almost forgotten...
...but maybe easy to fix/change:


1. With P-51B, P-51C and Mustang MkIII, smoke only comes out of the left smokestaks of engine (you can see it best from external view). P-51D's are fine.


2. P-47D-27 (and the newer one) have a red seat if you look at it inside the cockpit.


3. Wings of P-40's (except P-40B/C) have a to great angle in relation to the fuselage. If you use external views and watch from the nose, you can see, that the Wingtips are to high compared to the wingroot. Meaning the "V" of the wings is too much bent skywards. Best viewable if you compare it with real pictures or the P-40B/C in game.


Would be nice, if one could do this. Anyway: Very good job TD. Thank you very much for your work.

[Romanator21]

I think some Thunderbolts did have red seats. I could be wrong though. The 3D model of the P40 has more wrong with it than just the wing dihedral, according to some.

Regarding the Devastator - a 3d model was made for the game, but something happened to the project. Maybe someone could enlighten us.

Anyway, I love making wish-lists. Here are some of mine:

- Editable HUD log (being able to choose which messages appear based on something like a conf.ini).

- Mossie MkIV with option of auxiliary slipper fuel tanks. Tse Tse variant would be interesting too.

- Earlier B-25 variants (currently AI).

- Earlier P-38 variants.

- Flyable Su-2 and R-10 would be amazing, but I understand no info exists.

- Ju-88 C-6. I imagine someone is working on this already. Possible other Junkers variants (apparently the A-4 had many modifications over its career resulting in what could be called A-4 late, etc.)

-Observer position in Beaufighter to act as the pilot's eyes. This can be AI shouting enemy positions.

- Flight model changes to our beloved TB-3 if possible. It can do all sorts of strange things currently. Currently the pilot only has access to the throttles, but the plane carried an engineer. This would be an interesting position to have modeled (low priority).

- Change of awkward AI behavior when elevators are shot off, resulting in incredibly violent tumbling. This is also applicable to planes which lose a wing and flutter to and fro like a leaf. If tumbling is a necessary part of the FM, then break-up should occur.

- Updating physics calculations to model inertia (including rotational inertia). Rapid roll reversals would be more difficult.

- Gun jams based on historical failure rates and from mishandling (firing when pulling G's for some weapons) as a difficulty option.

- Ability to set custom "Default" skin. If this is not feasible, then it would be nice if you continued to replace some for the older models: B-239, R-10, SBs, Tu-2s, U-2s etc, etc.

- "Face-lift" for the game's namesake

- Photo-recon features (not an easy task, but would add a great element to game-play). For instance, with new FoW, some "targets" will not appear in online briefing until photographed by a player.

- More as I think of it!!