Contact sight problem.. really something to patch!!

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by AMVI_Superblu

we need a fix for the contacts disappearing at medium / short range

+1

It happened to me on the ATAG server yesterday.
I was following a dot, I had an alt advantage.
Then, closing in, the dot disappeared. I made two rounds trying to find out whether it was my eyes that were playing jokes on me or whether it was a ghost dot.
Not seeing anything, I changed course going back home....only to find out 30sec later a bandit on my tail


It really needs some improvement!


~S~

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

It happened to me on the ATAG server yesterday.

I was following a dot, I had an alt advantage.
Then, closing in, the dot disappeared. I made two rounds trying to find out whether it was my eyes that were playing jokes on me or whether it was a ghost dot.

I have had the same thing happen many times, and not just with this patch, from day one.

I am not sure that they disappear from the game or just from my view.. Because one time I did see them appear to disappear, only to look much harder and see that they were still there, just very Very VERY faint. If that is the case each time than the problem is in how the 'dot' transitions occur. As the distance changes, the game loads different LOD of the plane.. Clearly during one of these transitions color of the dot goes from a 'dark' dot to a different color.. And depending on that color the plane can seem to disappear!

As noted, sometimes I can see them after the transition and sometimes I don't so maybe sometimes they do actually disappear from the game?

In either case, they really need to work on those transition colors, it should go from dark to not so dark to light.. not dark to light.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

+1

It happened to me on the ATAG server yesterday.
I was following a dot, I had an alt advantage.
Then, closing in, the dot disappeared. I made two rounds trying to find out whether it was my eyes that were playing jokes on me or whether it was a ghost dot.
Not seeing anything, I changed course going back home....only to find out 30sec later a bandit on my tail


It really needs some improvement!


~S~

I had the same experience several times. In Il2 it doesn't happen. Did you notice if it's related more with blue planes or red planes? imo it happens with spitfires and hurricanes, maybe it's the type of skin ...

[6S.Tamat]

one fast solution waiting for a better one should be to leave the dot closer crossing the lod


distance x = lod only
distance x+ = dot and lod
distance X++ = dot only


i know that there is a better solution, like refining the lods and the distancies, but that one seems to be simplier, cause you need to modify only few parameters for all the planes insthead to modify all the lods

[drewpee]

+1