Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

[DaveB]

Ah.. I see! That's a kooky way of doing things I guess the airship looks equally odd on the ground with no shadow (unless you enable aircraft shadows) but with the obvious drawback you've highlighted. Odd but there you go

ATB

DaveB

[Dev One]

Is that a function of the contact point dimensions?
Keith

[Garry Russell]

Change the weather to cloudy and it shouild look odd without shadows

What are the red bits???

[DarrenL]

What are the red bits???

Little markers and stays that keep the cables holding the mast taught.

[DarrenL]

Definitely a ground shadow (that mast view is the start of a loaded flight that comes with the scenery).

Here is the proper air shadow in flight.

[DaveB]

The shadow is sorted but what are those white bits?? Chaff or AA bursts??

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Roger on the red bits.makes sense and I can see then as that now

[DarrenL]

The shadow is sorted but what are those white bits?? Chaff or AA bursts??

ATB

DaveB

It's got a leak

I paused the screen to move the cam around to get that shot, the white I think is water venting to gain altitude, I just loaded it up into the Friday Harbour quick flight to get an airbourne screenshot and it was doing it straight away. After a while it disperses oddly if the screen is paused for a while. I think the same thing happens with another effect, landing tyre smoke or jet start up smoke. Cant recall seeing jet exhaust smoke dispersing though.

[DaveB]

Hi Darren..

Rgr that Yes.. pausing can cause odd things to happen as your avatar of Ark Royal reminded me. I've been kicked off the deck on more than one occassion after resuming the sim following a pause

ATB

DaveB

[DarrenL]

Hi Darren..

Rgr that Yes.. pausing can cause odd things to happen as your avatar of Ark Royal reminded me. I've been kicked off the deck on more than one occassion after resuming the sim following a pause

ATB

DaveB

I should have looked at that

Yes, the smoke from the funnel does it