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Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 14:32
by DaveB
Ah.. I see! That's a kooky way of doing things :-O 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 :)

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Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 16:51
by Dev One
Is that a function of the contact point dimensions?
Keith

Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 18:03
by Garry Russell
Change the weather to cloudy and it shouild look odd without shadows :lol:

What are the red bits???

Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 18:43
by DarrenL
Garry Russell wrote:What are the red bits???
Little markers and stays that keep the cables holding the mast taught.

Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 18:59
by 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.

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Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 20:19
by DaveB
The shadow is sorted but what are those white bits?? Chaff or AA bursts?? :-O :hide:

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Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 20:57
by Garry Russell
Roger on the red bits.makes sense and I can see then as that now :)

Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 21:18
by DarrenL
DaveB wrote:The shadow is sorted but what are those white bits?? Chaff or AA bursts?? :-O :hide:

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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.

Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 21:36
by 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 :wall: :lol:

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Re: Goodbye old fashioned fixed wing aircraft!

Posted: 07 Oct 2010, 21:41
by DarrenL
DaveB wrote: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 :wall: :lol:

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DaveB B)smk
I should have looked at that :lol:

Yes, the smoke from the funnel does it :)